Shutt’er Down
Director Martin Scorsese and actor Leonardo DiCaprio pair up for the fourth time on Shutter Island, a film that looked thrilling in trailers but is…
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Don’t sell them short
Though many film-goers bemoan the deadening lack of originality in mainstream cinema, only a few bother to seek out alternatives. Sure, fare like the independent…
“Yasmina’s Yatra” is a film to explore personal faith with
“I feel that, in many ways, North American lifestyle is a spiritual void. I think we need to work on discovering something greater, and share…
There Will Be Lawyers
Joe Berlinger has spent the past 18 years creating some of the greatest legal documentaries ever made with his creative partner Bruce Sinofsky (as well…
Forcing the issue:
How is Princess Leia a princess when her father is a senator? The answer is simple, but easy to miss. Leia’s adoptive father is Bail…
Local filmmaker courts controversy with “Zooey and Adam”
When asked if he anticipated the controversy surrounding his new film, Zooey and Adam, filmmaker Sean Garrity’s answer was fairly clear: “I had no idea!”…
Uniquely Canadian
We think we have an identity crisis in this country. We become very quiet when asked the inevitable cultural question, “What is Canadian food?” We…
The top nine sports flicks of this generation
Friday Night Lights (2004) Starring: Billy Bob Thornton, Garrett Hedlund Peter Berg’s unflinching vision of a high-school football team in Odessa, Texas is an intense,…
The movies aint making what they used to
Watching box office records being broken these days is like watching the Olympics, if performance-enhancing drugs were permitted. With year after year of record breakers,…
Films. 2010. Damn.
Hey there, Know-It-All. What’s better than knowing it all? The answer (which you know, of course) is “nothing.” There is nothing better than being the…