Month: October 2014

[LFF Review] Son of a Gun

Son of a Gun borrows every cliché from the crime movie playbook as JR (Brenton Thwaites), a 19-year-old orphan, finds protection in prison from armed robber Bre...

[LFF Review] Phoenix

Following the Second World War, European auteurs probed its lingering national psychological fallout resulting in films such as Night and Fog, Hiroshima Mon Amo...

[Review] The Book of Life

When Guillermo Del Toro produces an animated film about traveling into the afterlife and then releases it in time for Halloween, one would be right to expect so...

[LFF Review] Rosewater

Contrary to early, perhaps reactionary, accounts, Rosewater is not entirely devoid of comedy. Of course those who think of Jon Stewart as a comedian first, jour...