This Week in Movies – February 8, 2013
This Week: Side Effects, Identity Thief and Top Gun 3D
This Week: Side Effects, Identity Thief and Top Gun 3D
Sean Patrick Kelly is a Toronto-based freelance film critic and blogger with a Bachelor of Arts in Cinema and Media Studies from York University. Since founding his site in 2004, Sean has shared his passion for cinema through insightful reviews and commentary. His work has also been featured in prominent outlets, including Toronto Film Scene, HuffPost Canada, Screen Anarchy, ScreenRant, and Rue Morgue Magazine.
It’s about time that I get back into the habit of recommending new home video releases. For this week’s column, I choose the incredibly awesome home invasion horror film You’re Next. I saw this film way back when it played Midnight Madness at TIFF back in 2011 and I’ve been waiting for it to resurface…
In celebration of the 40th anniversary of TIFF, I will be revisiting one film from each year I attended the festival. Please be aware that these discussions may include SPOILERS. If there is a theme for the 24 films that I saw at TIFF in 2013, it is that many of them were weird. This was a year,…
It is already time for the Golden Globe Awards, which will be happening tonight. While the awards have become hard to take seriously in recent years, this year’s batch of nominees is a little more straight forward then they have been in the past. As always, I’m going to take a no-frills approach in listing…
Just in time for Halloween comes The Strangers on DVD (which also, probably not-so-coincidentally, is released on the same day as The Incredible Hulk — which is also released by Universal and features Liv Tyler). As what seems to be the norm with horror DVDs these day, this is advertised as the “unrated” edition. Now…
I am heading up to my family’s cottage for the next week or so. As such, there will be a brief hiatus of blog activity. Regularly scheduled posts will resume the weekend of August 10. Sean Patrick Kelly Sean Patrick Kelly is a Toronto-based freelance film critic and blogger with a Bachelor of Arts in Cinema…
This weekend sees the release of After Earth, which is the first film directed by M Night Shyamalan since the huge flop that was The Last Airbender back in 2010. By the time of the release of The Last Airbender, Shyamalan had become quite disliked by most of the mainstream public. In fact, his public…
It’s about time that I get back into the habit of recommending new home video releases. For this week’s column, I choose the incredibly awesome home invasion horror film You’re Next. I saw this film way back when it played Midnight Madness at TIFF back in 2011 and I’ve been waiting for it to resurface…
In celebration of the 40th anniversary of TIFF, I will be revisiting one film from each year I attended the festival. Please be aware that these discussions may include SPOILERS. If there is a theme for the 24 films that I saw at TIFF in 2013, it is that many of them were weird. This was a year,…
It is already time for the Golden Globe Awards, which will be happening tonight. While the awards have become hard to take seriously in recent years, this year’s batch of nominees is a little more straight forward then they have been in the past. As always, I’m going to take a no-frills approach in listing…
Just in time for Halloween comes The Strangers on DVD (which also, probably not-so-coincidentally, is released on the same day as The Incredible Hulk — which is also released by Universal and features Liv Tyler). As what seems to be the norm with horror DVDs these day, this is advertised as the “unrated” edition. Now…
I am heading up to my family’s cottage for the next week or so. As such, there will be a brief hiatus of blog activity. Regularly scheduled posts will resume the weekend of August 10. Sean Patrick Kelly Sean Patrick Kelly is a Toronto-based freelance film critic and blogger with a Bachelor of Arts in Cinema…
This weekend sees the release of After Earth, which is the first film directed by M Night Shyamalan since the huge flop that was The Last Airbender back in 2010. By the time of the release of The Last Airbender, Shyamalan had become quite disliked by most of the mainstream public. In fact, his public…
It’s about time that I get back into the habit of recommending new home video releases. For this week’s column, I choose the incredibly awesome home invasion horror film You’re Next. I saw this film way back when it played Midnight Madness at TIFF back in 2011 and I’ve been waiting for it to resurface…
In celebration of the 40th anniversary of TIFF, I will be revisiting one film from each year I attended the festival. Please be aware that these discussions may include SPOILERS. If there is a theme for the 24 films that I saw at TIFF in 2013, it is that many of them were weird. This was a year,…
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