The 10 Sebastian Stan performances that explain why we stan

Spanning from guest-starring roles on TV shows to being one of the faces of Marvel to dominating the festival circuit, Sebastian Stan’s decades-long career has made him one of the best, yet underrated, actors of this generation. In preparation of…

Directors of Cinema- Episode 19: Ridley Scott

Welcome back and thank you for sticking around as this marks the long awaited return of Directors of Cinema, the podcast that highlights the careers of cinema’s most prominent directors. Each week, host Matthew Goudreau and a guest discuss selected works of…

7 Best Survival Films

With the release of The Shallows this weekend, the latest survival thriller that features Blake Lively vs. Shark, we add one more film to the canon of other great survival films. Survival films feature ordinary people who find themselves in extraordinary situations…

Who did it better? 2015 book-to-movie adaptions

Book versus movie adaptions are a serious deal for us literary fans – and so we’ve taken a look at some of the biggest page to screen adaptions of 2015, and judged which medium did it better. The Martian Truthfully, I’m not…

SAG Award Nominations: Snubs and Surprises

Did you hear that? That was the official sound of the Oscar Race 2016 kicking off, and to the surprise of many after two years are relatively structured and predictable races, we seem to have ourselves a race very much…

Jon’s Movie Review: ‘The Martian’

The Martian doesn’t contain anywhere near the intellectual depth of Interstellar because it doesn’t need to.  Instead of focusing on mind-melting logic, it wants to stimulate a different muscle: The heart. Not the physical heart, although there are more than a…

TIFF Report #6 (The Martian, Room, The Forbidden Room)

They can be found laying in their seats with their heads tilted back while loud growls leave their mouths. They are the snorers who appear at most films during this point of the festival. I mention this because I’m having a…