Reviews

[Review] Johnny English Reborn

When one sees 250+ films in a given year one tends to remember both the really good ones and the ones that insulted your intelligence or wasted your time. T...

[Review] Paranormal Activity 3

Tom Petty was right – the waiting is, indeed, the hardest part. Paranormal Activity 3 involves much waiting, some neat effects, more waiting, and then an en...

[Review] Norman

An angsty teenager looking to find himself falls in love and deals with tremendous personal pain. Sound familiar? It should; that could be the basic log lin...

[Review] Martha Marcy May Marlene

A number of noteworthy films on this year's festival circuit have dealt with fear of impending doom. But while Lars Von Trier's Melancholia and Jeff Nichols' Ta...

[Review] Le Havre

While many films have explored themes of post-9/11 paranoia and its resulting xenophobia, none have dared do so with the unrepentant joie de vivre of Le Havre...

[Review] Bombay Beach

While scouting locations for her next shoot, photographer turned music-videomaker Alma Har'el was inspired to create a film, documenting the curious community s...

[LFF Review] 360

Arthur Schnitzler’s 1900 play La Ronde has had quite a legacy. The author initially wrote it as a private play to share amongst his bohemian friends, but it...

[Review] The Skin I Live In

You may have noticed a veil of intrigue and mystery has persistently clung to Pedro Almodóvar's latest effort The Skin I Live In. The drama's promotional poster...

[Review] The Thing

John Carpenter's 1982 classic The Thing is a movie that hinges on a sense of unknown dread and suspense. Whenever an intellectual property maintains a built...