Reviews

[Review] C.O.G.

There is hilarity in the way that people interact when they are on different planes and there's a rudeness underneath C.O.G. that comes off as parody instead. E...

[Review] Diving Normal

If you've ever spun quarters on a table and seen them sometimes gravitate towards each other and then violently ricochet off one another, you get a sense for Di...

[Review] Butter on the Latch

Attention fans of dark, surreal drama, there’s a new voice in town and here’s hoping she sticks around. When I came to her new film Butter on the Latch, I didn’...

[Review] Fresh Meat

Fresh Meat takes several “-isms" and throws them into a hilarious blender. The film works as an uncompromisingly dark horror comedy with director Danny Mulheron...

[Review] 1st Night

1st Night is a classy screwball comedy, so gorgeously lensed and very British, we almost forget just how silly the material might be had the same premise been a...

[Review] Peeples

Here, finally, is a movie that would actually benefit from dropping the ‘Tyler Perry Presents’ tag that inevitably accompanies it. Nothing against Perry, who...

[Review] And Now a Word from Our Sponsor

Points for ingenuity to screenwriter Michael Hamilton-Wright for crafting a feature length script that makes sense around a character only speaking in commercia...

[Review] No One Lives

When the WWE logo appears at the start of Ryûhei Kitamura’s No One Lives, it feels out of place with the film’s horror movie expectations. After about an hour o...

[Review] Blackbird

Co-winner of the award for Best Canadian First Feature Film at the Toronto International Film Festival, Jason Buxton’s debut Blackbird peers into the sort of gu...

[Review] The Great Gatsby

Baz Luhrmann’s spectacle-drunk adaptation of The Great Gatsby is exactly what its pedigree and trailers have suggested; a big hot mess that indulges its directo...