Buried far, far beneath the empty hubris and soapy melodrama of the thin plot in Jim Sheridan’s The Secret Scripture, there’s a fascinating film about women’s rights in 1920’s …
Movie Review: King Arthur: Legend of the Sword
Guy Ritchie’s take on the King Arthur legend plays like a 180 million dollar book report written by the worst student in the class. While the madman behind Snatch may have glanced at the original Arth…
TIFF Review: The Secret Scripture
For more TIFF 2016 coverage, go here. Buried far, far beneath the empty hubris and soapy melodrama of the thin plot in Jim Sheridan’s The Secret Scripture, there’s a fascinating film abou…
Movie Review: Special Correspondents
Special Correspondents is like a mish-mash of some great ideas that go absolutely nowhere. You have Ricky Gervais starring, writing and directing the picture, some good characters to serve as comic an…
The Film Canon: Munich (2005)
Munich is a historical epic boasting an identity crisis. It’s an angry, vengeful and violent statement, but it’s also empathetic and vastly despondent. Munich forces itself to relive bad memorie…
Warner Bros. King Arthur pushed back to 2017
Following on the heels of Disney’s recent live-action adaptations of former animated films, Warner Bros. has decided to bring a fresh new take to King Arthur with Guy Ritchie attached as director. Ori…
Jon’s Movie Review: “Deliver Us From Evil” gives you more of the devil you know
So a priest, a detective and a comedian walk into a bar. The priest asks for a drink, the detective asks questions about a suspect, and the comedian tells an unrelated, inappropriate sexual joke no on…