Meryl Streep as Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady

Review: The Iron Lady

How far would you be willing to go to display a truly brilliant performance? That is bound to be the question on the minds of anyone wandering out of a screening of The Iron Lady. Make no bones about it, Meryl …

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Review: Contraband

A good heist film is expected to deliver the following: intensity, ingenuity, humour and a few surprises. A Mark Wahlberg heist film has yet to receive a failing

A scene from War Horse

Review: War Horse

Any review of Steven Spielberg’s latest offering, War Horse, needs to begin with the following information: it is a perfectly fine film. There really isn’t anything wrong with the movie.

A scene from David Fincher's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Review: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)

It feels like I just watched the Swedish adaptation of Stieg Larsson's trilogy in theatre. Since the first film was released only two years ago, that's not that

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Review: Dragonslayer

 Skateboarding culture has undergone something of a paradigm shift in recent years. Once the sole property of the gritty, rebellious punk-rockers of the 1980's, the sport has since inched

John C. Reilly, Jodie Foster, Christoph Waltz and Kate Winslet star in Roman Polanski's Carnage.

Roman Polanski, TIFF unleashes Carnage

Roman Polanski has always been kind of a funny guy. Maybe he’s not always funny in the conventional making-everyone-laugh sense, but at the very least funny in the odd,

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Review: The Artist

If ever a film were custom-designed to charm the pants off a Toronto audience, The Artist - Michel Hazanavicius’ mostly-silent ode to the death of silent film –

Hugo 2011

Review: Hugo

After seeing the trailer for Hugo, film purists collectively bristled at the prospect of a children’s fantasy from the director of Taxi Driver and The Departed. Many of

Michael Fassbender in a scene from Shame

Review: Shame

When people talk about Shame, the discussion tends to move towards the uncommon amount of nudity in the film. But that is only a part of two outstanding

My Week with Marilyn

Review: My Week with Marilyn

To say Marilyn Monroe is an icon is like saying the sky is blue - it's an indisputable fact. We're familiar with her on-screen presence, her breathtaking Playboy