SNAPSHOT In Maxime Giroux’s latest feature, an unusual romance blossoms between two lost souls who inhabit the same neighbourhood but vastly different worlds. Meira (Hadas Yaron) is a young Hasidic Jewish mother in Montreal’s Mile End district who secretly rebels against her faith by listening to soul music and Continue Reading
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Movie review: A Most Violent Year
The clock is ticking, ticking loud and fast in J. C. Chandor’s slow-burning tale of one man’s pursuit of the American Dream, A Most Violent Year. It is 1981, statistically one of the most violent in New York’s history, and aspiring businessman, Abel Morales (Oscar Isaac) is intent on Continue Reading
Movie review: Lilting #queerscreen
Anyone who has ever experienced any form of profound loss will know all too well that grief is a peculiar, never ending lament with a thousand different reminders everywhere you turn. The truth of this painful reality is authentically conveyed in starkly moving, intimate terms in Hong Khaou’s largely assured Continue Reading
Movie review: Trash #StGeorgeOpenAir
If you’ve even so much as vaguely read any of Enid Blyton’s Famous Five novels or perused an old and tattered copy of Boys’ Own magazine, you might be tempted to think that life for young boys is a gripping mash-up of dodging buffoonish anti-heroes, getting into trouble that resolves Continue Reading
Movie review: Selma
History is a crowded place, littered more often than not with recurrent and egregious examples of man’s inhumanity to man. But it is also, thankfully, marked by the brave examples of men and women, in great numbers and starkly alone, who, rather than remain complicit in a system that Continue Reading
There is nowhere else to go: Guillermo del Toro’s gothic horror masterpiece Crimson Peak (trailer + poster)
SNAPSHOT “Legendary Pictures’ Crimson Peak, a co-production with Universal Pictures, is a haunting gothic horror story directed by the master of dark fairy tales, Guillermo del Toro (Pan’s Labyrinth, Hellboy series, Pacific Rim), written by del Toro and Matthew Robbins and starring Mia Wasikowska, Jessica Chastain, Tom Hiddleston and Continue Reading
Santa Claus in Ethiopia: The fantastically quirky apocalyptic world of Crumbs (trailer)
Much like the apocalyptic world in which its off-kilter quirky story takes place, Crumbs by director Miguel Llanso, a Spain/Ethiopian/Finland co-production that premiered at the International Film Festival Rotterdam this year, appears to have been blasted so far out of “the box” that it occupies a realm few other sci-fi Continue Reading
My Fandom Valentine: Find out what your favourite pop culture characters think about love sweet love
You might think that pop culture characters, with an army of writers eager to craft their every move, would have love covered, their romantic lives are a place of perfect fulfilment (well, eventually after some trials and obstacles are dispensed with). But according to a delightful animation by Leigh Lahav, you would Continue Reading
It’s a case of true love interrupting life in Judd Apatow’s Trainwreck (trailer)
SNAPSHOT Trainwreck is directed by Judd Apatow from a script he co-wrote with comedian Amy Schumer. The film follows a complete basket case (Schumer) trying to rebuild her life with her new boyfriend (Bill Hader) best friend and parent in tow. The cast also includes Brie Larson, Mike Birbigla, Continue Reading
Movie review: Kingsman – The Secret Service
Depending on how you look at it, we live either in a cynical age stripped bare of boundless unquestioning faith in pretty much anything, or one in which everything is gloriously fair game, a postmodern scrambling of all that has gone before in which nothing can be viewed except through Continue Reading