None of this is a criticism — steal from the best and maybe you’ll come up with something original along the way. Tom (Sam ...
The picture’s biggest liability to logic is the alien machine. Its mech-tech armaments seem entirely terrestrial and its ...
The fuel — also made of these tiny buggers — will only carry these specialists to their destination and no further, so it’s a ...
January, a punk-fueled fury was brewing at 2037 Gottingen in the Marquee Ballroom, with the celebration of If You’re Here, ...
Set during the 1990s, times of sanctions and deprivation in the years after the first Gulf War, nine-year-old Lamia (Baneen ...
Evy rarely goes out, and never looks out a window. We never see the exterior of the house, or anything else beyond a couple ...
This is more Night On Earth than, say, Paterson. We’re not getting the quirky intensity of Down By Law or the dark grandeur of Only Lovers Left Alive, probably my favourite of all Jarmusch’s work.
It’s not often these days we get a pirate movie, despite the broad cultural affection for The Pirates of Caribbean franchise. If you want to know why, ask Renny Harlin about Cutthroat Island or Roman ...
On Friday I was once again on the CBC Nova Scotia morning radio show, Information Morning, speaking with guest-host Preston Mulligan. I reviewed the local period drama, Monica’s News, from filmmaker ...
Carsten Knox is a massive, cheese-eating nerd. In the day he works as a journalist in Halifax, Nova Scotia. At night he stares out at the rain-slick streets, watches movies, and writes about what he's ...
An earlier version of this review appeared on FITI during the Atlantic International Film Festival 2024. Here’s a film that came and went in the 2024 festival season, but never got a theatrical ...
Colin (Harry Melling) is a quiet, queer young man who lives with his parents, Douglas and Peggy (Douglas Hodge and Lesley Sharp) in suburban Bromley, South London, and sings with Douglas in a ...