Katarina Gligorijevic
About Katarina Gligorijevic
Katarina Gligorijevic is a Toronto based writer and major movie nerd whose work has appeared in two Coach House Books anthologies, Point of View magazine, Exclaim!, Twitch, and several other online and print publications. In addition to Toronto Film Scene, she contributes to They Shoot Actors, Don’t They? and is currently working on a novel about abductions and communicating with pears, and a screenplay about a sexy werewolf.
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Last entries by Katarina Gligorijevic
  • 20 May 2013
    Mainstream vs. indie depictions of the LGBT community
    Hollywood has always been pretty good at stereotyping. In some cases, this kind of works for them, because grand stories with overarching universal themes sometimes need characters who are kind of “general”, so that they can be easy to like or dislike, clear-cut heroes and villains who audiences can immediately...
    Archived in Articles Cover Stories Issue 4 Volume 5: May 2013 - LGBT Cinema Issue Archive
  • 26 Apr 2013
    Review: Pain & Gain
    Danny Lugo (Mark Wahlberg) and his buddy Adrian (Anthony Mackie) are bodybuilders who work as trainers at a hot gym in Miami. They are really, really into their bodies, and they just want the rest of their lives to match their  physical excellence. When ex-con Paul (Dwayne Johnson) comes to...
    Archived in Major Theatrical Reviews RSS
  • 19 Mar 2013
    TFS Essentials: Dirty Dancing, feminism and the female gaze
    I was in my early teens when I was first introduced to the unbelievable phenomenon that is Dirty Dancing. It was the early ’90s, about five years after the film actually came out in 1987. I watched it on television and found myself mesmerized by it in a way that...
    Archived in Columns Issue 4 Volume 3: March 2013 - Women in Film TFS Essential
  • 11 Mar 2013
    Beauties, babes and bombshells in Canadian film
    It’s easy to dismiss the idea of the “Canadian bombshell” because our film industry is relatively young, and perhaps we don’t have the Greta Garbos, Marilyn Monroes or Ava Gardners of Hollywood’s silver screen era. Let’s not even talk about the semi-secretly Canadians, actresses like Rachel McAdams, or Battlestar Galactica‘s sexiest...
    Archived in Articles Cover Stories Issue 4 Volume 3: March 2013 - Women in Film
  • 20 Feb 2013
    Quebecois comedies get the Hollywood remake treatment
    Quebec’s film industry has always been a rich and vibrant one, and many Quebecois’ films are smash hits at the local box office. Handsome heartthrobs such as Roy Dupuis‘ are huge stars at home, so much so that they rarely have a need to travel to Hollywood to find the...
    Archived in Cover Issue 4 Volume 2: February 2013 - French Canadian Cinema
  • 16 Feb 2013
    TIFF Next Wave Review: Ghost Graduation
    A group of teens die in a fire that started during a school dance in 1987, and have been haunting the school since. There’s a jock, a bad boy, a pregnant girl, a nerdy girl and a dude who’s been permanently drunk since he died that way. When the school’s...
    Archived in Festivals Other Festivals
  • 21 Jan 2013
    The surreal history of Canadian children’s films
    Canadian cinema is known for many things. The National Film Board is recognized internationally as being one of the world’s best producers of documentaries and animation. Our horror films (both from the tax shelter era and beyond) are known for being especially creepy and disturbing. Our auteurs (from Cronenberg to...
    Archived in Articles Cover Stories
  • 18 Jan 2013
    Review: The Last Stand
    The FBI is transporting Gabriel Cortez (Eduardo Noriega), the very dangerous leader of a very powerful drug cartel, through Las Vegas. When Cortez inevitably succeeds in a spectacularly well planned and perfectly executed escape, FBI team leader  Agent John Bannister (Forest Whitaker) has to stop him before he reaches the...
    Archived in Major Theatrical Reviews
  • 29 Nov 2012
    Media Impact: Queer Cinema in Asia
    Taking on a subject as broad and multifaceted as queer Asian cinema is a tricky thing. The national cinemas of Asia are as diverse as the cultures themselves – what shocks in Japan might not raise an eyebrow in Thailand, and what’s considered controversial or appropriate for the screen also...
    Archived in Columns Issue 3 Volume 11: November 2012 - Asian Cinema Media Impact
  • 22 Nov 2012
    TFS Essentials: Hong Kong Cinema – Part Two
    (ed. note: Katarina Gligorijevic continues her thorough look at Hong Kong cinema and what’s considered essential viewing to start off your education in the genre. For Part One, wherein she looks at kung fu films and the masters of martial arts, look here.) Heroic Bloodshed and Gangster Style “Call this...
    Archived in Columns Issue 3 Volume 11: November 2012 - Asian Cinema TFS Essential
  • 21 Nov 2012
    Review: Life of Pi
    Picine Molitor Patel was named after a swimming pool in France, and is the son of a zoo keeper in Pondicherry, a former French colony on the eastern coast of India that’s known as the “French Riviera of the East”. Picine, or Pi, as he’s known, is a precocious and...
    Archived in Major Theatrical Reviews
  • 15 Nov 2012
    TFS Essentials: Hong Kong Cinema – Part One
    I sit at the kitchen table waiting patiently for my husband (TIFF Programmer, Kung Fu Fridays founder, and Hong Kong movie mega-fan Colin Geddes) to answer my not-so simple question: what are the essentials of Hong Kong cinema? “Essential Hong Kong cinema is such a broad topic,” he muses. “It’s...
    Archived in Columns Issue 3 Volume 11: November 2012 - Asian Cinema TFS Essential
  • 31 Oct 2012
    Living Dread: The Cinema of George A. Romero comes to TIFF Bell Lightbox
    One of the best bets in Toronto this Halloween is Living Dread: The Cinema of George A. Romero, a retrospective of some of the horror master’s best work, screening at TIFF Bell Lightbox. I first encountered Romero’s films when, as a scaredy-cat first year university student, I cowered through a...
    Archived in Articles TIFF Programming
  • 30 Oct 2012
    Cinema Revisited: Canada’s Forgotten Horror Gems
    I should probably clarify, before I begin, what I mean by “forgotten gems”. I don’t really mean amazing films that are well written and executed and should be remembered in the annals of history as finely crafted pieces of cinema. And I don’t mean films that are “so bad they’re...
    Archived in Cinema Revisted Columns
  • 26 Oct 2012
    Review: Silent Hill: Revelation
    Picking up several years after  the first Silent Hill left off, Silent Hill: Revelation finds Heather Mason (Adelaide Clemens) and her dad (Sean Bean) in a new town, starting over. It’s quickly established that they’ve been moving a lot, taking on new identities quickly and frequently. Of course, Heather is...
    Archived in Major Theatrical Reviews
  • 15 Sep 2012
    TIFF Review: Frances Ha
    Frances (Greta Gerwig) is a 27-year-old aspiring dancer who lives in a Brooklyn apartment with her best friend, Sophie. She’s messy, clumsy, awkward, and adorable. She can’t get her life together, hold down relationships, or, y’know, be a grownup. But at least she’s got Sophie to keep her anchored. The...
    Archived in Festivals TIFF TIFF 2012
  • 15 Sep 2012
    TIFF Review: John Dies at the End
    When we first encounter Dave (Chase Williamson), he’s telling his wild and unbelievable story to a skeptical reporter (Paul Giamatti) in a Chinese restaurant. It’s about how he and his buddy John (Rob Mayes) came across a drug called Soy Sauce, a black substance that allows users to access parallel...
    Archived in Festivals TIFF TIFF 2012
  • 14 Sep 2012
    TIFF Review: Outrage Beyond
    “Beat” Takeshi Kitano returns with a sequel to his very bloody 2010 yakuza film Outrage,  which featured  a complex plot about the scheming heads of several warring yakuza families who make pacts, betray one another, climb to positions of power only to be dethroned, and often meet very bloody ends....
    Archived in Festivals TIFF TIFF 2012
  • 14 Sep 2012
    Review: Resident Evil: Retribution
    The fifth film in the Resident Evil franchise will give you exactly what you’re looking for. If indeed, you are looking for a fifth Resident Evil film. We first catch up with Alice (Milla Jovovich, reprising the role once more) where the last film left off. There’s a handy recap...
    Archived in Major Theatrical Reviews
  • 14 Sep 2012
    TIFF Review: Gebo and the Shadow
    Gebo (Michael Lonsdale) is an accountant who lives with his wife Doroteia (Claudia Cardinale) and his daughter-in-law Sofia (Leonor Silveira). They’re elderly, and spend most of their time fretting about their absent son, Joāo. That is, Doroteia desperately clings to any bit of news about her darling boy. Gebo and...
    Archived in Festivals TIFF TIFF 2012
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