REVIEW: The Golden Compass [2007]
“Just a small little cut” I have thought that Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials Trilogy would make some very interesting films ever since I read them almost a decade ago. The fantasy and utter...
View ArticleTIFF09 REVIEW: Cracks [2009]
“The most important thing in life is desire” It is time to welcome a new member into the Scott family of filmmakers. Ridley’s daughter Jordan Scott has arrived with Cracks, a story about a British...
View ArticleTIFF09 RECAP: Connecting to Your World … and mine
Every year at the Toronto International Film Festival seems to get better and better. Is that due to the increase in films from six to eleven to fifteen? It very well might be. And I’ll just say now,...
View ArticleREVIEW: Franklyn [2009]
“Without faith, it’s difficult to be controlled” Blind faith in God can lead to two outcomes; it’s either a way to accept an event and seek the good that can come from tragedy or a springboard to...
View ArticlePosterized Propaganda February 2012: The Dreadful and the Dread Inducing
“Don’t Judge a Book by Its Cover” is a proverb whose simple existence proves the fact impressionable souls will do so without fail. This monthly column focuses on the film industry’s willingness to...
View ArticleREVIEW: Dark Shadows [2012]
“You’ll have to imagine us on a better day” At present, the Tim Burton discussion can be answered in two ways. One: I’ve become too old and jaded to ‘get’ the farcical nature of the auteur’s darkly...
View ArticleREVIEW: 300: Rise of an Empire [2014]
“Fear his freedom!” This is what a copy of a copy looks like. It pretends to be equal to the original—and in some aspects proves to be exactly the same—yet arrives seven years after everything its...
View ArticlePosterized Propaganda August 2014: ‘Guardians of the Galaxy,’ ‘Sin City,’...
“Don’t Judge a Book by Its Cover” is a proverb whose simple existence proves the fact impressionable souls will do so without fail. This monthly column focuses on the film industry’s willingness to...
View ArticlePosterized Propaganda September 2014: ‘The Zero Theorem,’ ‘The Boxtrolls’,...
“Don’t Judge a Book by Its Cover” is a proverb whose simple existence proves the fact impressionable souls will do so without fail. This monthly column focuses on the film industry’s willingness to...
View ArticleREVIEW: Dumbo [2019]
“Let’s get ready for Duuuumboooo” We’re a long way away from 1941 and the days of pure frivolity in your animated films are over. That’s why Disney evolved their glorified sing-along The Jungle Book...
View ArticleTIFF19 REVIEW: Proxima [2019]
“My mother said it’s not a job for girls” A last minute addition to a Mars mission precursor via the International Space Station, Sarah (Eva Green) is simultaneously excited and anxious. While space...
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