Reviews
In neighbourhoods all over the country, kids play elaborate games of hide and seek, keepaway and, yes, even war. I Declare War brings you a look at one game of war, played in one neighbourhood. The game involves two sides trying to capture the other’s flag. There are three rules: you cannot move your base once the game has started, if you get shot (with a paintball bullet) you must stay down for 10 “Mississippis”, and if you get hit with a (paint) grenade you’re dead and you have to go home. The stakes are high in this particular game...
When Leon’s (Aaron Poole) mother passes away, he returns to her home to take care of final affairs. Inside her home, Leon finds that she has spent much of her life buying the antiques that Leon sold over the years. She was also a member of a very strange cult, and her religious beliefs were a large part of why Leon had left home in the first place. Back home, and surrounded by memories he had try to leave behind, Leon starts to believe that his mother is trying to contact him with an urgent message, but will he be...
Things are not going well for Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr). He’s been crippled by nightmares and panic attacks since his brush with death while fighting with The Avengers, and now there appears to be a new threat (Ben Kingsley) on the horizon, targeting him and his constant, sleep-depriving need to upgrade his Iron Man suits. What’s more, his paramour Pepper Potts (Gwyneth Paltrow) is being wooed by a past co-worker (Guy Pearce) who seems to have an axe to grind with Tony stemming from a long past encounter between the two. When a major attack is launched against Tony...
ChristCore is a documentary taking an inside look at Christian hardcore music and its influence on the next generation of Christians. Following new band Messengers, and Christian hardcore superstars Sleeping Giant, as they tour the country, ChristCore explores how this subculture of Christian music is becoming a connecting force between young people and the church. Director Justin Ludwig opens his documentary by describing himself as a hardcore fan, musician, and atheist. After leaving behind his Christian upbringing, he turned to the world of hardcore music, and was shocked to eventually learn that it was a style of music that Christian...
In the age of Google Maps and computer nano calculations, it sounds quaint for a scientist to drift across the ocean on a wooden raft to prove a hypothesis. Only 66 years ago, however, a Norwegian explorer named Thor Heyerdahl built such a raft, named it Kon-Tiki, and cruised from Peru to Polynesia – across 6900 kilometres of ocean. Before 1947, the scientific community had decided that the Polynesian islands had been populated from Asia 1500 years earlier. Heyerdahl spent ten years in Polynesia, and from the locals’ folklore and a big hunch, he concluded that the accepted theory was...
After an ice age sets in, killing off the majority of the population, rag tag groups of survivors huddle together in underground civilizations, braving the extreme weather and waiting for rumours about a thaw to materialize somewhere on their satellite map. Amongst the survivors is Briggs (Laurence Fishburne), the unofficial “mayor” of the colony, Sam (Kevin Zegers), a young man who’s content to follow Briggs’ lead, Sam’s girlfriend Kai (Charlotte Sullivan) and Mason (Bill Paxton), a blowhard who likes to shoot first and ask questions later. When a distress call comes in from the nearest colony (over a day’s walk...
When he was just two years old, Redwood (Ryan Grantham) watched as his parents broke up. While his mother walked away, Redwood listened to the radio as they spoke about Jack Nicklaus, and how winning a green jacket at the Masters could change his life. It was then that Redwood knew what he had to do. Beat Jack Nicklaus and win the Masters so his parents will get back together. Eight years later, Redwood lives in Canada with his draft dodging, drug dealing father, and has yet to defeat Nicklaus at the Masters. When his father is arrested, Redwood is...
After Lu Chan (Yuan Xiaochao) saved Chen Village from an army of steampunk soldiers, the villagers have allowed him to learn their Chen Style Tai Chi after he marries Yuniang (Angelababy), the daughter of Grandmaster Chen (Tony Leung Ka-Fai). When Yuniang’s brother returns to the village, he begins spreading the tale of the Mad Monk, who warned the villagers that teaching an outsider their Chen Style Tai Chi would result in their destruction. While the villagers want Lu Chan exiled, he may be the only thing standing between Chen Village and the army controlled by Fang Zijing (Eddie Peng Yu-Yen)....
Ellie (Diane Keaton) and Don (Robert DeNiro) have been divorced for ten years, since he cheated on her with her best friend BeBe (Susan Sarandon). Don and BeBe have been together ever since and Ellie has been galivanting around the world trying to find peace with herself. She returns to the gorgeous New England house that she and Don built together for the first time in a decade for the wedding of their adopted son Alejandro (Ben Barnes) to the daughter (Amanda Seyfried) of their longtime neighbours Barry and Muffin (David Rasche and Christine Ebersole). Also on hand for the...
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 their gym looking for work, Danny has a brilliant idea to make them all rich, quick. Soon, the trio are elbow deep in some inept plans to kidnap a rich client of Danny’s (Tony Shaloub), so that they can force him to sign over all his property and cash to...
Marie (Jane Adams) is a middle-aged actress starting to feel the pressure in Hollywood. All the roles she auditions for are going to younger actresses. As she begins looking at her life, and where she is now, her niece Faye (Sophia Takal), who is also an actress, comes to visit. As Marie spends more time with Faye, she shares some of the lessons she’s learned in life, and starts to be more comfortable with the woman that she has become. Joe Swanberg directs, and co-writes with star Jane Adams, the touching and funny film All the Light in the Sky,...
In Oblivion, Tom Cruise stars as Jack, a veteran stationed on what remains of planet Earth to repair security drones. The planet has become uninhabitable due to ecological disaster and nuclear war. Jack and his mission partner, Victoria (Andrea Riseborough), protect mining installations from Scavs, aliens who seek to destroy all humans and their tech. When Jack finds a human survivor in a crash landed spaceship, he begins to question everything he knows. Not surprisingly, the film is very derivative of the creative team’s previous work, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing. Wrapping in just enough ideas of persistent...
