Having Christian Bale and Oscar Isaac as the leads of any film would be enough to warrant a ticket purchase, but even moreso when one of them isn't in any s...
TIFF’s Colin Geddes was correct when introducing Ben Wheatley’s bottle episode of a film Free Fire with the words: “This will wake you up.” The gunfire alone ri...
Many films deal with the aftermath of a family death by becoming about how their characters live with the pain -- it changing them into different people. Some d...
Some people can't help themselves from striving to be the best whether that means winning a contest, getting a promotion, earning accolades, or proving you're t...
Writer/director Ashley McKenzie's feature debut Werewolf picks up right where her 2012 short When You Sleep left off. We're back in Canadian squalor on the pove...
The director of Do I Have to Take Care of Everything?, the hilarious 2014 Oscar nominee for Best Short Film, is back with her sophomore feature narrative Little...
For a way in, maybe we can detect that Zoology writer-director Ivan I. Tverdovsky is a fan of sad-boy rock star Morrissey, because the first ten to fifteen minu...
The roles have been reversed for Julia Brystygier (Maria Mamona), the once powerful colonel in the USSR's Ministry. She interrogated countless enemies of the st...
A fair question to ask: why The Sun King now? Perhaps American icons are always ripe for deconstruction as, after all, we have the world’s greatest (or rather d...
Going in with no expectations besides the recent news that the film had been shortlisted for Norway’s 2017 Oscar selection, director Erik Skjoldbjærg's Pyromani...
