Reviews

[TIFF Review] Union Square

New York’s Union Square is the point in the city where many destinies cross, not to mention most all of the city’s subway lines. This is where we first meet L...

[TIFF Review] Page Eight

David Hare's directorial debut Page Eight sits somewhere between All The President's Men and The Parallax View in the land of political conspiracies, both r...

[Review] Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

Tomas Alfredson shot to fame with his acclaimed Swedish horror film Let The Right One In. Directing his English-language debut here, with what is the most-a...

[TIFF Review] Sarah Palin – You Betcha!

Although I think it is valid to view a film through the prism of political conditions, I shall tread lightly here. To ignore this, largely ignores “Film His...

[TIFF Review] Random

I’m not sure there’s a way to discuss Random, an adaptation of a one-women show, without discussing the random event at the core of the film. A film like th...

[TIFF Review] Girl Model

Interested in the end results of globalization, David Redmond and Ashley Sabin previously chronicled the end product of Mardi Gras party beads in Mardi Gras: ...

[TIFF Review] Alois Nebel

Alois Nebel, the first feature film of director Tomáš Luňák, is a moody black-and-white animated film that diverts from the conventional rules of film form ...

[TIFF Review] Trespass

It would be ignorant to deny certain preconceived notions going into a Joel Schumacher home invasion movie starring Nicolas Cage. I was dumbfounded when it ...

[Review] Straw Dogs

Rod Lurie's Straw Dogs is a tough film to watch. Not in terms of onscreen violence, but in evaluating the film as a whole. Sam Peckinpah's original film is ...

[TIFF Review] Wuthering Heights

Aside from being creepily old, if the Brontë sisters were still alive today, they would be delighted. After their work has been adapted a dozen times over, ...