Tag: Movie

By Chris McGeachy

When you look at the repertoire of Forest Whitaker’s roles, compared side-to-side with his directorial portfolio you have to wonder how in the hell someone involved with films like Ghost Dog: Way of the Samurai and Platoon could also be responsible for cinematic atrocities like Sandra Bullock’s Hope Floats and the dismal Waiting to Exhale.… Continue reading Movie Review: Wayward First Daughter

By Kyle Francis

“Take off, ya’ hoser!” Those words, known to any warm-blooded Canadian as those of Doug and Bob Mackenzie, were written and made famous by Canada’s own Dave Thomas, who made a name for himself on the ever-popular Second City Television. It was through SCTV that Thomas became known for his zany sense of humor, clever… Continue reading From SCTV to the operating room

By Stan Molchanov

Canadians are trying to do what the Germans so successfully did before the onslaught of World War II: unify the beautiful people within this massive landmass into a fully functioning nation. Admittedly, as a nation we are quite scattered and thus unprepared for war if it were to encroach on our unsuspecting collective unconscious. This… Continue reading Film Fest more unifying than US politics

By Peter Hemminger

Ah, the sound of a thousand critics cheering in unison. Play a movie with certain requirements–say, a foreign film that mixes attention-grabbing action with art house elements–and the literati can barely contain their glee, saliva pooling in collective mouths and out their pens. Hero is sitting at 94 per cent fresh on www.rottentomatoes.com. If that’s… Continue reading Gorgeous epic simply hollow

By Peter Hemminger

When Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song was released in 1970, it kick started the blaxploitation genre, which lead directly to classics like Shaft and a little less directly to Blacula. It also became the highest grossing independent movie of the year, and in the eyes of many, helped bring independent cinema into the limelight. Sweet Sweetback… Continue reading Van Peebles shows men in blaxploitation

By Peter Hemminger

Love is easier to believe in before it’s experienced. When we’re young, every stranger brings us one step closer to the lifelong bliss promised by Hollywood and Harlequin stories. We soon learn our encounters with true happiness will likely be brief and exist only in retrospect.Typical storybook romances focus only on those moments. They’ll throw… Continue reading Fall in love one last time with Before Sunset

By Chris Beauchamp

Ze Germans are coming… and France surrenders. The scene is France, 1940. The protagonist is an aspiring novelist, and the plot is convoluted. Bon Voyage follows the exploits of Frederic during the frantic wave of migration caused by the German advance into France. Unable to be with Viviane, the self interested, manipulative actress he loves,… Continue reading Bon Voyage is a good journey

By Jeff Kubik

Alright kids, here’s irony for you. Imagine a film exploring the concept of sexual role playing, characters struggling with roles imposed by society and the uneasy balance strike as they refuse and redefine them. Now imagine this same film is so deeply mired in cliche, its characters so one-dimensional, that it defies the most formulaic… Continue reading Mango could use more juice

By Sarah Radomsky

If you can sit through a whole episode of The Bachelor and Fear Factor, you’ll do fine spending 50 minutes watching five lesbians from Calgary tell their story. Morag and Kam cram into a Cadillac head for British Columbia with their flower girl, ring bearer, and a videographer to document their right to a legally… Continue reading Film review: One Dyke Wore White