High School is a stoner comedy about two teenagers, who decide to get their entire high school stoned on pot brownies in order to mess up the results of a drug test set up by the very strict headmaster (played by a nearly unrecognizable Michael Chiklis). The problem with many stoner comedies is that if you are not […]
For better or worse, Moonrise Kingdom is probably the best film Wes Anderson has made. He’s turned himself into quite an auteur over the years creating films that have a very distinct visual style. Moonrise Kingdom looks and feels like it was made in the 1960s setting of the film. The film is a coming of age
Two years ago we saw the release of the 3D remake of Piranha. Back then I liked the film because it was exactly what I expected it to be – a fun and campy gorefest. Piranha 3D was a bit of a surprise horror hit in 2010 and of course that means that they just had
I finally managed to catch up with the film I most wanted to see at Hot Docs, but was sadly unable to. Indie Game: The Movie is about the world of independent videogame designers; a sub-industry that as blossomed in the rise of digital distribution platforms, such as X-Box Live Arcade. The film features three indie games: Braid,
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It would be understandable for someone to be apprehensive about a second sequel to the sci-fi/comedy Men in Black. 2002’s Men in Black II didn’t have the same charm as the 1997 original and the fact that it took a full decade for a third chapter to be made seemed to hint that people weren’t exactly clamoring for
As you could probably tell from the title, Marley is a documentary about the life and career of reggae superstar Bob Marley. With a running time of 2hr24min, the film will definitely tell you all that you would ever want to know about Marley. In some ways, I feel the documentary was a bit too long,
It’s been a while since I’ve seen anything by Richard Linklater, with the last film of his that I saw theatrically being 2006’s A Scanner Darkly. However, I would have to that that his latest film Bernie can be included amongst his best. I knew very little about the film before seeing it, other than the
The Norwegian action-thriller Headhunters features a relatively simple story. Roger Brown (Aksel Hennie) is a corporate headhunter, who moonlights as an art thief. He comes across a valuable painting that seems to permanently end his financial woes, however in the aftermath of this latest theft, he finds himself (literally) hunted by the painting’s owner Clas Greve (Game of Throne‘s Nikolaj Coster-Waldau). I
When I heard that Tim Burton’s Dark Shadows was based on a 1970s horror-based soap opera, that was the film I was expecting it to be. When the trailer came out, it looked like the film was taking a campy and comedic route, which I’m sure would have excited people who liked Tim Burton’s early work,
Sound of My Voice is going to be a bit of a hard film to talk about, since I don’t want to reveal too much about how it turns out. However, I will try my best. The film is about a journalist named Peter and his girlfriend Lorna, who infiltrate a cult lead by a mysterious
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