Because of malnutrition, dehydration, sleep deprivation, poor hygiene but most influentially seeing way, way too many movies, I have been diagnosed with festival fog. Feeling as though there is an inescapable haze over your memory and intellect, everything melds together…
TIFF Report #2 (Danish Girl, Legend, Bang Gang)
My morning started off early with a pair of awards hopefuls at the lush and beautifully designed Princess Of Whales theater in downtown Toronto. With grand vaulted ceilings and two balcony levels, the place is like a church for cinema. Sadly,…
TIFF Report #1 (The Final Girls, Sicario)
Late Thursday night, on my way back from school before leaving for TIFF early in the morning, I sang my heart out to Demi Lovato’s Cool For The Summer. I hate pop music. I even hate that song. I was…
Movie Review: ‘The Visit’
Being an M. Night Shyamalan supporter is a lot like cheering for a professional Vancouver hockey team. A very long time ago we were on top of the world but, a few close attempts later, all that remains are the…
Movie Review: ‘Violent’
“When I tell you I’m lonely I don’t want you to think…there’s nothing to look forward to. I’m still looking for it.” Aren’t we all looking for that elusive “it,” the thing that mends our alienation, that gives our life meaning,…
Movie Review: ‘No Escape’
Paying the piper, karma, “what goes around comes around”: whichever you’d like to call it, John Erick Dowdle’s (As Above, So Below, Devil) No Escape tries to tap into our rich guilt–the shame that we’re profiting at the expense of…
Movie Review: ‘She’s Funny That Way’
“They don’t make ‘em like they used to” is a phrase all too apt for one of Hollywood royalty’s latest. Peter Bogdanovich is a filmmaker from the New Hollywood movement which now, ironically, feels dated in a golden classic kind…
