Reviews

[Review] Winter’s Tale

The bevy of woeful decisions made by writer/director Akiva Goldsman throughout his adaptation of Mark Helprin's impressive 1983 novel Winter's Tale will surely ...

[Review] Down and Dangerous

If you’re familiar with writer/director Zak Forsman’s work you’ll know that it was only a matter of time before he branched out from subtle character pieces to ...

[Review] RoboCop

How practical, really, is a RoboCop? A rigorous machine guided by the impulses of a human brain, packed into an ass-kicking, cyborg form and loaded with weap...

[Review] Vampire Academy

Vampire Academy is often more fun than many brainless supernatural tween films like, for example, last year's dud The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones. This is...

[Review] Love & Air Sex

Love & Air Sex (formerly riddled with the far more generic title The Bounceback) is an uncanny romantic comedy, one that grows on you like a lazy weekend wi...

[Review] The Monuments Men

It looks like everything is here, so what’s missing? George Clooney’s The Monuments Men is that most frustrating type of movie; it assembles a great cast, a ...

[Review] Vic + Flo Saw a Bear

Writer/director Denis Côté's latest, Alfred Bauer Prize-winning (Berlin International Film Festival) Vic + Flo Saw a Bear is a mysteriously captivating creature...

[Review] 12 O’Clock Boys

When we first meet Pug he’s a bright 13-year-old living in a rowhouse in Baltimore, spending his time idolizing the dirt-bike gang that tears and zips through d...

[Review] Lust for Love

First-time writer/director Anton King's Lust for Love is primed for audience consumption two years and change after its Kickstarter campaign went live. A labor ...

[Review] Charlie Victor Romeo

Verbatim theatre is a genre that aims to provide a certain kind of honesty through anonymity. Performances are derived from primary source documents like interv...