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[Review] The Second Mother

The first thing to announce itself in The Second Mother is an insistence on never losing sight of Val (Regina Casé), the maid, chef, and occasional surrogate pa...

[Review] No Escape

Violence is a true horror in No Escape, a gripping microcosm of inhumanity set during a brutal coup d’état. Director John Erick Dowdle has a knack for placing a...

[Review] We Are Your Friends

Let it be so, 2015 is the year of EDM (Electronic Dance Music) in film. Earlier this summer, we were given Eden, a little-seen but much-loved chronicle of a Fre...

The Film Stage Show Ep. 151 – Tom at the Farm

Welcome to the latest episode of our official podcast, The Film Stage Show. This week, Amanda Waltz, Nick Newman, Danny King and I begin by revisiting Joel Edgerton's The Gift and discussing its problematic ending. Then we discuss Xavier Dolan's thriller Tom at the Farm....

[TIFF Review] Born to Dance

Apparently kids from Baltimore to County Durham to Auckland have the same problem: parents just don’t understand. So little has changed since Will Smith and DJ ...

[Review] Grandma

Lily Tomlin has had more than just one “role of a lifetime” in her filmography, but in writer/director Paul Weitz’s Grandma she’s given the type of project that...

[Review] The Mend

While watching The Mend, the debut feature from writer-director John Magary, I was often reminded of a favorite point from Roger Ebert’s review of Pulp Fiction....

[Review] American Ultra

From its first few shots, it's clear that American Ultra is removed from the relatively grounded drama of Greg Mottola's underrated Adventureland, the last film...