[Review] Earth to Echo
In 1982 it took a whole movie for E.T. to place a call back to his home planet. He might have found more luck with the trio of kids in Earth to Echo, who always...
Nathan Bartlebaugh
[Review] Snowpiercer
An impossibly long train, filled to capacity with the remnants of humanity, hurtles across an icy, unforgiving wasteland in Bong Joon-ho’s Snowpiercer. Like its...
[Review] Transformers: Age of Extinction
In Michael Bay’s latest blaring entry of the inexplicably popular Transformers series, Optimus Prime and his sentient, shape-shifting robotic cohorts find that ...
[Review] 22 Jump Street
There’s not a single frame of Phil Lord and Chris Miller’s 22 Jump Street that isn’t acutely aware of its own status as a lazy, cash-grabbing sequel, but after ...
[Review] How To Train Your Dragon 2
I can still remember those childhood movie moments that forever solidified my love of the cinema. They were found, unsurprisingly, in pictures we would describe...
[Review] Anna
What if you could go all Inception on The Bad Seed, or mind-meld with Damien from The Omen? I suspect it was a theoretical mash-up along these lines that served...
[Review] The Fault in Our Stars
My teenage years may be decades removed from me at this point, but that didn’t stop me from reconnecting with my brooding, uncertain inner teen when reading Joh...
[Review] The Grand Seduction
Newfoundland provides the stunning and charmingly quirky backdrop for Don McKellar’s The Grand Seduction, an old-fashioned ode to small-town working class value...
[Review] Words and Pictures
Two essential elements spring to the forefront of Fred Schepisi’s new romantic comedy, but they aren’t the titular Words and Pictures of the title. In fact, it’...
[Review] Maleficent
In the climactic final battle of Walt Disney’s Sleeping Beauty, the imperious and delightfully wicked queen Maleficent squares off with plucky Prince Philip and...
