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TIFF 2013: Blind Detective, Why Don’t You Play In Hell?, R100
Blind Detective On my second-last day of the festival, I was not expecting to have one of the craziest days I’ve ever had at TIFF in my six years of going. Starting off, I was getting ready for one...
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Blackfish
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 one company, SeaWorld. Blackfish catches SeaWorld in several lies through...
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TIFF 2013: Stray Dogs & A Field in England
After spending the previous day watching two very slow-moving films, I figured I was ready to take on the latest film from one of the masters of ‘slow cinema.’ I’ve been a huge fan of Tsai Ming-Liang’s work over...
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A Field in England (TIFF Review)
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 that got comparisons to Mike Leigh and Guy Ritchie. His...
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Blue Caprice
The endeavor of dramatizing the events of something as horrific as the 2002 Washington D.C. killing spree of “The Beltway Snipers”, John Allen Muhammed and his then 17-year-old partner, Lee Malvo, requires a deft hand and a measure of...
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Interview: Mike Flanagan of Oculus
Last Sunday TIFF’s Midnight Madness program unveiled the world premiere of Oculus. Mike Flanagan, whose last film Absentia was a great understated horror film, finds himself working with a bigger budget and cast this time around, including Doctor Who’s...
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TIFF 2013: Night Moves, Gravity, October November, Under The Skin
My previous day at TIFF was originally going to comprise of four films as well, but unfortunately I had to bail out of one film due to pure tiredness (I’ll keep the film’s title unnamed here, but if it...
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Gay Seniors Doc to Screen in Russia Following ‘Gay Propaganda’ Law
Following an event in Russia documented in the HBO Doc Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer, in which members of the feminist punk rock group Pussy Riot performed a guerrilla-style anti-Putin rock show in an Orthodox cathedral in the Cathedral...
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TIFF 2013: The Green Inferno, The Sacrament, Canopy & Oculus
The Green Inferno It seemed to be fate that I’d have a day devoted exclusively to genre films at TIFF. After the excellent reaction to Eli Roth’s The Green Inferno at its midnight screening, I caught up with it...
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Trailer: Zulu
Zulu, the film that closed the Cannes Film Festival this year, now has its first (NSFW) trailer. The movie stars Forest Whitaker and Orlando Bloom in an intense crime thriller set in South Africa in the aftermath of Apartheid....
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Pasolini Film Series Hits San Francisco This Weekend
This weekend in San Francisco, a retrospective of one of cinema’s greatest, most controversial, and visionary minds will take place in two of the city’s oldest movie houses; the magnificent Castro Theatre and arthouse haven Roxie Theater. Part of...
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TIFF 2013: Only Lovers Left Alive, Like Father Like Son, The Strange Colour of Your Body’s Tears
Going back to TIFF my day was filled with catching up yet again. While everyone was abuzz for Gravity (review coming soon!) and The Double, I was out viewing some leftovers from Cannes earlier this year yet again. Only...
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Populaire
Set in late ’50s Paris, Populaire is a loving throwback to the saccharine rom-coms of that decade, dipped in candy coating and wrapped in bright art-deco packaging. It’s scrumptious with every bite, and it’ll make you smile, but it...
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The Bitter Buddha
Unless you are a huge stand-up comedy aficionado you have likely never heard of a comedian named Eddie Pepitone. I certainly had not until this documentary. But he is beloved by many famous comedians that you have heard of...
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