Michael Hyer
About Michael Hyer
Social Links
Last entries by Michael Hyer
  • 25 Aug 2010
    Summer Movie Revue: Shrek 2
    SHREK 2 (Andrew Adamson, Kelly Asbury, & Conrad Vernon; 2004) Total Gross: $564, 854, 900. Even with abismal reviews and an uninspired story, Shrek Forever After managed to rake in over $70 million in its opening weekend. The franchise, which has decided to end itself before anything more can tarnish...
    Archived in On the Scene
  • 18 Aug 2010
    Summer Movie Revue: Ghostbusters
    GHOSTBUSTERS (Ivan Reitman, 1984) Total Gross: $562, 308, 400. Some movies are great because they handle the big questions up front; others, because they can deal with them only through implications. For the most part, Ghostbusters neatly fits into the latter. Here we have a classic comedy from all the...
    Archived in On the Scene
  • 11 Aug 2010
    Summer Movie Revue: Spiderman
    SPIDERMAN (Sam Raimi, 2002) Domestic Gross: $552, 403, 700. In a season defined by superhero movies, is there a better way to kick off this Revue? And if we are going to talk superhero movies, should we be going any less mainstream? No and no. If we want to kick...
    Archived in On the Scene
  • 07 Jul 2010
    Summer Movie Revue, Part 4
    Last time, Michael discussed the merits of having a summer movie season. Now, there are some counter arguments to all the points enumerated thus far that deserve mentioning. For one, I am presupposing in all this that the summer of 2010 is distinctive in as much as that it is...
    Archived in Articles Other Articles
  • 30 Jun 2010
    Summer Movie Revue, Part 3
    Last time, Michael discussed the place summer movies hold for Torontonians. The second reason also has to do with comic book movies, though of a different, DC variety. Everyone, I am sure, has seen The Dark Knight — at least, the studio executives did. One thing in particular that attracted...
    Archived in On the Scene
  • 23 Jun 2010
    Summer Movie Revue, Part 2
    Last time, Michael discussed the seeming inverse relationship between the weather and the quality of summer movies. Then there was the ultimate failure to launch, called the Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. The subtitle alone seemed to imply further adventures in the future that would require distinction from...
    Archived in Articles Other Articles
  • 16 Jun 2010
    Summer Movie Revue, Part 1
    It has been a hot summer, so far — so hot, in fact, that it has nearly killed my lawn. The cold weather with which we entered the month has been passed by with record-setting heat, and the soil I put down not two weeks ago has now blended in...
    Archived in Articles Other Articles
Last Comments by Michael Hyer

This week from Grolsch Film Works

Graffiti in the Movies

Last week saw the release of Gimme the Loot, the SXSW Grand Jury Prize winner by Adam Leon, which sees two graffiti artists seek revenge after their replica of the…

Read

Latest Reviews

bergdorf
Review: Scatter My Ashes at Bergdorf’s

For decades New York department store Bergdorf Goodman has been a destination for discerning shoppers…

fight_like_soldiers_06
Review: Fight Like Soldiers, Die Like Children

In 1994, General Roméo Dallaire was the UN Force Commander during the Rwandan genocide. Now…

Mud
Review: Mud

Ellis and Neckbone are two 14-year-old best friends, looking for adventure and purpose in their…

the we and the i
Review: The We and the I

Michel Gondry, unleashed from the commercial shackles of oh, say The Green Hornet, returns a…

Robbie and his friends come up with a plan to steal some rare whiskey in "The Angels' Share"
Review: The Angels’ Share

Robbie (Paul Brannigan) has barely avoided a prison sentence from an assault charge, helped by…

Latest Columns

weekend
TFS Essentials: what romantic comedies could learn from Andrew Haigh’s Weekend

The romantic comedy has been dead for a long time. Numerous autopsies – most recently, Christopher Orr’s much discussed piece in The Atlantic – have…

inthenameof
Spotlight On: Inside Out Toronto LGBT Film Festival

Spring is a time of rebirth and renewal. And spring in Toronto, as it turns out, is also the time for film festivals. Commonly referred…

albus dumbledore
The TFS List: LGBT characters who are more than their sexuality

Trying to come up with a list of LGBT characters who aren’t solely defined by being the “catty, gay best friend” (think My Best Friend’s…