Kelly Stewart
About Kelly Stewart
Along with writing for TFS, Kelly is a contributing writer for Fangoria Magazine. When he isn’t writing about some underrated film classic, Kelly is a painter and a graphic designer. You can follow him on twitter at @cinemamasters.
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Last entries by Kelly Stewart
  • 16 Mar 2012
    Review: The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye
    Genesis P-Orridge has always been on the cutting edge. His bands COUM Transmissions (1969-1976), Throbbing Gristle (1975-1981), and Psychic TV (1981 to the present) were innovators in  the use of musical “cut-ups,” influential  in everything from the punk scene to industrial music. This film isn’t about music though. The documentary...
    Archived in Independent & Repertory Reviews
  • 24 Feb 2012
    Review: Rampart
    In Rampart, Woody Harrelson stars as a corrupt officer Dave Brown in the LAPD that lays out his own form of rough-justice, or at least he thinks he does. Dave thinks of himself of mix of John Wayne and Dirty Harry, but the reality of his personality and his world...
    Archived in Major Theatrical Reviews
  • 30 Sep 2011
    Review: Machine Gun Preacher‏
    In Machine Gun Preacher Gerard Butler plays Sam Childer, a self described ‘hillbilly’ from Pennsylvania who likes to play with guns.  We meet Sam as he is just getting out of prison, for what is most likely a drug offence. Returning to his wife Lynn (Michelle Monaghan) and daughter Daisy...
    Archived in Major Theatrical Reviews
  • 23 Sep 2011
    Review: People Mountain, People Sea – TIFF 2011‏
    People Mountain, People Sea (Ren Shan Ren Hai) is a neorealistic crime drama from director Cai Shangjun part of the Contemporary World Cinema program at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival. Situated in the remote countryside of the southern province of Guizhou in present day China, a labourer named Old...
    Archived in Festivals TIFF TIFF 2011
  • 22 Sep 2011
    Review: Rampart – TIFF 2011‏
    In Rampart, Woody Harrelson stars as a corrupt officer Dave Brown in the LAPD that lays out his own form of rough-justice, or at least he thinks he does. Dave thinks of himself of mix of John Wayne and Dirty Harry, but the reality of his personality and his world...
    Archived in Festivals TIFF TIFF 2011
  • 18 Sep 2011
    Review: Lucky – TIFF 2011‏
    Lucky is a film about a 10-year-old boy of the same name in South Africa who is anything but lucky. He doesn’t have any parents, can’t speak English (only Zulu) and the people in his life are mainly out to exploit him. Not exactly the feel good movie of the...
    Archived in Festivals TIFF TIFF 2011
  • 18 Sep 2011
    Review: Albert Nobbs – TIFF 2011
    Albert Nobbs is a butler and waiter in an upscale hotel in Dublin, Ireland at the turn of the 19th century. He dreams of saving all his shillings to one day open up a tobacco shop and of having a wife who can work the front counter for him. After...
    Archived in Festivals TIFF TIFF 2011
  • 09 Aug 2011
    Van Gore: An interview Keith Hodder and Peter Strauss
    There has been a fascinating chain of events that started with the pairing of Robert Rodriguez’s Planet Terror and Quentin Tarantino’s Death Proof in a double bill called Grindhouse in 2007. The public didn’t know what to make of it at the time and what was the first major flop...
    Archived in Articles Cover Stories
  • 09 Aug 2011
    Days of Glory: Masterworks of Italian Neorealism
    Running throughout the month of August at TIFF Bell Lightbox will be a retrospective on some of the best of Italian Neorealist filmmaking. Most of the attention this summer has been on the Fellini retrospective but these masterworks of Italian Neorealism laid the foundation for the New Wave of European...
    Archived in Articles Other Articles
  • 05 Aug 2011
    Review: Rise of the Planet of the Apes
    It must be said first that I have always been a huge Planet of the Apes fan. I own and know all the films and off-shoots by heart, so my expectations going into the latest Apes film were high. Thankfully, the new film, Rise of the Planet of the Apes,...
    Archived in Major Theatrical Reviews
  • 08 Jul 2011
    Review: Zookeeper
    There is a moment in Zookeeper that reminded me of when I was kid watching Sesame Street. You’d see some kids singing a song and sit wondering when the muppets were going to come back. I have the same issue with this film: every time the film cut away to...
    Archived in Major Theatrical Reviews
  • 24 Jun 2011
    Review: Cars 2
    Looking back at the history of animation studio Pixar’s 25-year existence, their track record is quite remarkable. Twelve feature films that have all been both blockbusters and critical darlings. Not even the Disney studio during its Golden Age (1935 to 1941) ever had such a consistent track record of accomplishment....
    Archived in Major Theatrical Reviews
  • 01 May 2011
    Review: At the Edge of Russia – Hot Docs 2011
    At the Edge of Russia is about being on the frontier of… well, nothing. A young man named Aleksey is assigned to a military outpost with  five other men on the arctic coast of Russia. There they are practicing for an attack that will never come, by an enemy that...
    Archived in Festivals Hot Docs Hot Docs 2011
  • 01 May 2011
    Review: Foreign Parts – Hot Docs 2011
    If you travel behind the  new and modern  New York’s Mets Stadium, you will see the strange Queens neighbourhood of Willets Point. This neighbourhood is an industrial park filled with scrap yards and auto salvage shops unlike any you may have ever seen before. Foreign Parts documents the last days...
    Archived in Festivals Hot Docs Hot Docs 2011
  • 01 May 2011
    Review: The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye – Hot Docs 2011
    Genesis P-Orridge has always been on the cutting edge. His bands COUM Transmissions (1969-1976), Throbbing Gristle (1975-1981), and Psychic TV (1981 to the present) were innovators in  the use of musical “cut-ups,” influential  in everything from the punk scene to industrial music. This film isn’t about music though. The documentary...
    Archived in Festivals Hot Docs Hot Docs 2011
  • 30 Apr 2011
    Review: How to Make a Book with Steidl – Hot Docs 2011
    How to Make a Book with Steidl is remarkable documentary on the publishing world of Gerhard Steidl, a unique figure because he is both a publisher and printer of books. With a small but dedicated crew, Steidl prints all the books from his house in Germany, usually with very small...
    Archived in Festivals Hot Docs Hot Docs 2011
  • 30 Apr 2011
    Review: Grande Hotel – Hot Docs 2011
    Between 1954 and 1963, the Grande Hotel in Beira, Mozambique was one of the most luxurious hotels in Africa. Built and controlled by the Portuguese who ruled the country for almost 500 years, it also came to represent everything that was wrong with Mozambique. The documentary Grande Hotel, screening at...
    Archived in Festivals Hot Docs Hot Docs 2011
  • 26 Apr 2011
    Revue Cinema’s Silent Sunday: Strike
    The Revue Cinema‘s monthly Silent Sundays program continues on May 1st featuring a special presentation of Soviet director Sergei Eisenstein’s first film Strike (1924).   It tells the story of life in pre-revolutionary Russia during a factory workers’ strike. Even if you haven’t heard of Eisenstein, you likely know his...
    Archived in On the Scene
  • 11 Apr 2011
    Review: The Wild, The Beautiful and… The Damned Part 2 – TSFF 2011
    The 2011 Toronto Silent Film Festival began last week with Maciste in Hell in Part 1 of this programme entitled “The Wild, The Beautiful and… The Damned,” while Part 2 of the programme closed the festival with a screening of the F.W. Murnau’s 1926 classic film Faust....
    Archived in Festivals Other Festivals
  • 11 Apr 2011
    Review: A Thousand Laughs “Roach Clips” – TSFF 2011
    The 2011 Toronto Silent Film Festival had its yearly program of comedy shorts called “A Thousand Laughs: Roach Clips” at the Revue Cinema. This year’s program focused on the works of the Hal Roach Studio....
    Archived in Festivals Other Festivals
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