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 …
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
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.
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
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
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,
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 –
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
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
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














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