Reviews

[Review] Delivery Man

A little over two years ago, on a rainy Sunday afternoon, I walked into a small Toronto art house and discovered the gem that is Starbuck, the French-Canadian c...

[Review] The Poor and Hungry

A guy like John Singleton doesn't just finance independent films like Hustle & Flow without first understanding the talent its writer/director possesses to ...

[Review] Is the Man Who Is Tall Happy?

Michel Gondry's new documentary, Is the Man Who Is Tall Happy?, is nothing more than a collection of conversations with renowned philosopher Noam Chomsky, accom...

[Review] The Best Man Holiday

Walk with me back to a kinder, gentler time before Tyler Perry; The Best Man arrived in 1999 as another entry into a movement that was long overdue. Love Jones ...

[Review] Cold Turkey

The lesson to be learned from Will Slocombe’s Cold Turkey is that you should never confide family secrets with the uncontrollable loose cannon of the bunch. Bec...

[Review] About Time

A word of caution to the romantically inclined sci-fi buff: About Time is not a time travel movie -- it’s a Richard Curtis movie. If you have ever entertained t...

[Review] The Stone Roses: Made of Stone

Until inimitable singer Ian Brown, guitar god John Squire, affable bassist Mani, and long-MIA drummer Reni congregated in a London hotel in October 2011 before ...

[Review] At Berkeley

“Question those who offer you simple solutions to big and complex problems,” advises one student speaking to his peers at a protest. Throughout At Berkeley, dir...

[Review] Thor: The Dark World

There was something off with 2011's Thor: while many believe Iron Man 2 was nothing but an evolutionary bridge for its hero to move closer towards what The Aven...

[Review] The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology

The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology is a rather challenging film to review; like his other, rather useful The Pervert’s Guide to Cinema (and his collaborations with...