JOHN WICK is a sleek and unrepentant film about revenge and redemption. Set in a parallel world to ours, one populated by criminals who live by a strict set of rules, conventions, and etiquette, it is a dark fantasy of violence in which the hero isn’t the pacifist, it’s the guy who really loves his… Read More »
STARBUCK
STARBUCK is a sweet little fable about procreating and growing up. In that order. Already in the process of being re-made American-style, this charmer from Canada deserves to find its audience before being overpowered by the Hollywood hype and the heinous habit that place has of taking something wonderful and ruining it with formulaic homogenization.… Read More »
MAMBO ITALIANO
MAMBO ITALIANO makes such a good start before it devolves into the bland humor found in the type of second-tier type of sitcom that its hero, Angelo, dreams of writing. The story begins with Angelo (Luke Kirby) on the phone to the Gay Hotline, spilling his family history to a volunteer who can barely get… Read More »
FINAL CUT, THE
There is something disconcerting to have a life summed up in the number of hours lived, or to have scenes from that life played out with subtitle indicating the persons name and age, age in years, months and hours. It those moments that provide the grist for THE FINAL CUTs mill, a film that takes… Read More »
ALONE IN THE DARK
All you really need to know about ALONE IN THE DARK is that its based on a computer game and that the people who brought it to the screen aimed very low when it came to fleshing out the premise into a storyline. So low, in fact, that only the most die-hard fans of the… Read More »
LILIES
Some films are dreck, some films are popcorn, some films are art, and some films are pure poetry. LILIES falls into the poetry category. It’s a mystery set simultaneously in the golden past and the gray walls of a maximum-security prison. It takes poetry and filmmaker John Greyson to make that work. The story of madness,… Read More »
MANUFACTURED LANDSCAPES
Jennifer Baichwal’s documentary MANUFACTURED LANDSCAPES starts with one of the most arresting sequences in cinema. It works both as a dazzling technical achievement, and also as a commentary on what is to come. The camera slowly tracks across the manufacturing floor of a Chinese factory and then it continues to track, and then it continues… Read More »
KISSED
KISSED is a film about necrophilia. But the odd thing is that it’s not what you’d expect. Not by a long shot. I disliked the subject matter, intensely, but I admired the expertise of the filmmaker, Lynn Stopkewich, in allowing us to see this phenomenon from the necrophiliac’s point of view. It’s an enormously brave film. And yes, because I know you’re wondering… Read More »
THE CORPORATION
Fans of conspiracy theories will be sorely disappointed by the incisive and disconcerting documentary, THE CORPORATION. Whatever dark and paranoid fantasies that contingent has spun over the years about a secret cabal running the world, the facts that filmmakers Mark Achbar, Jennifer Abbot and Joel Bakan bring to the screen are worse. Instead of a… Read More »
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