Best Man DownBy Patrick Gross Everyone has that friend. The guy that’s always too loud, too drunk, makes fun situations better, makes serious ones unbearable, and is strangely predictable in their obnoxious behavior. Lumpy...
On the JobBy Bernard Boo It’s genius in a wicked kind of way, really. Hire a hitman who’s already in prison. Get him outside the prison walls for a day (corrupt prison guards come...
PrisonersBy C.J. Prince Denis Villeneuve, the French-Canadian director of Polytechnique and Incendies, has seemingly hit the jackpot with his English language debut. Teaming up with a cast of terrific actors along with...
I Used to Be DarkerBy Dustin Jansick A natural reaction towards conflict is avoiding the threat by escaping, a common theme found within Matt Porterfield’s indie drama I Used to Be Darker. It is hard to...
Herb & Dorothy 50X50By Bernard Boo Imagine this: You’re watching an episode of Hoarders about a couple who live in a tiny one-bedroom Manhattan apartment and have stuff piled so high and tightly that there’s...
C.O.G.By Bernard Boo Kyle Patrick Alvarez (Easier With Practice) has been gifted the very first crack at translating the work of acclaimed writer David Sedaris to the big screen with C.O.G., a...
Pine RidgeBy Dustin Jansick Being someone who has lived in South Dakota for over twenty-years, one would assume I would know a fair amount about the Pine Ridge reservation located near the Badlands...
Mademoiselle CBy Bernard Boo A documentary portrait of a fashion “goddess” whose most vivacious and interesting golden days are behind her, Mademoiselle C is so formless and banal that it’ll only appeal to...
GravityBy Manjot Jawa Full disclosure: I personally do not like 3D movies, I feel that they are distracting to the true art of filmmaking. That being said, I saw the advanced screening...
Museum HoursBy Bernard Boo In director Jem Cohen’s Museum Hours, a late-middle-aged Viennese museum patrolman and a Canadian tourist share a ruminative brief encounter, like an older, wiser, more meditative version of Sofia...
WadjdaBy Bernard Boo In perhaps the most definitive image of Wadjda, the titular 10-year-old girl’s bright, zealous eyes track a green bicycle as it appears to glide across the top of a...
Inside StoryBy Blake Ginithan The new film Inside Story, a joint effort from South Africa and Kenya, tells the story of a poor African boy who dreams of making it to the big...
BlackfishBy Dustin Jansick Somewhat similar to the documentary The Cove, Blackfish makes persuasive arguments against catching and holding animals in captivity, though this documentary is focused on the directing blame solely on...
A Field in England (TIFF Review)By C.J. Prince Over the last five years, Ben Wheatley has shown himself to be someone hard to pin down. His brilliant 2009 debut Down Terrace was a hilarious small-scale crime drama...
