VIFF11 REVIEW: Like Crazy [2011]
“To you who make me see things I could never see alone” How much is one summer of euphoric love worth? To Jacob (Anton Yelchin) and Anna (Felicity Jones)—the world. Courted through a shy, sweet process...
View ArticlePosterized Propaganda November 2014: ‘Foxcatcher,’ ‘Interstellar,’ ‘The...
“Don’t Judge a Book by Its Cover” is a proverb whose simple existence proves the fact impressionable souls will do so without fail. This monthly column focuses on the film industry’s willingness to...
View ArticleREVIEW: The Theory of Everything [2014]
“The little one has done it” To me Stephen Hawking has always been synonymous with physics I will never understand and that ubiquitous computerized voice cracking snide jokes. Until I saw the trailer...
View ArticlePicking Winners at the 87th Annual Academy Awards
Things look pretty cut and dry where the Academy is concerned in 2015. The Oscars are always a somewhat watered-down look at what really mattered in the past year of cinema and this installment is no...
View ArticleTop Ten Films of 2014: A deluge of sci-fi doppelgängers and one-word titles
I don’t want to label 2014 as a good, bad, or average year. I want to call it inventive, original, and delightfully dark. Whether it’s doppelgänger paradoxes leading to murderous rage, the bleak...
View ArticleTIFF16 REVIEW: A Monster Calls [2016]
“You will tell me your nightmare. That will be your truth.” When your author and illustrator both win Carnegie and Greenaway Medals for the same book (it may still be the only time ever), you can bet...
View ArticleREVIEW: Inferno [2016]
“We’re a minute to midnight” America loves popcorn thrillers as much as Hollywood and that suits Dan Brown fine. Having Ron Howard and Tom Hanks take an interest in his character Robert Langdon...
View ArticleREVIEW: Rogue One: A Star Wars Story [2016]
“Rebellions are built on hope” George Lucas used to say years ago that the original Star Wars trilogy was but three chapters of an epic nine-part saga. It dealt with the Skywalker family, beginning in...
View ArticleREVIEW: On the Basis of Sex [2018]
“Hooray for Mommy” Even if we weren’t mired in the middle of the Trump Administration with a constant tidal wave of sexist and xenophobic rhetoric masquerading as national emergencies, the story of...
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