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The Deliverance It would have been fair to treat Colette and The Deliverance as simply the “exorcist a domestic drama in which characters tackle the harshness of addiction poverty and racism” This are matters Lee Daniels is familiar with, having brought us such interconnected struggles in his 2009 Academy Award winning film Precious. Daniels has […]

City of Dreams Director J. M. H. Maise tells a great story in this film, ‘Dame Un Miedo’ which revolves around child trafficking. The film canvassed standing ovations at many film festivals across the globe because it gives the viewer a quest a quest to end child trafficking. In fact, the film uses fiction inspired

Out Come the Wolves Most Canadian thriller filmmakers working with a microbudget would probably agree that woods are a good aesthetic. This is undoubtably valid for actor director Adam MacDonald, the creator of Backcountry and Pyewacket, both of which incorporate the Canada’s thick forests in a brilliant manner. In the most recent work entitled Out

Seeking Mavis Beacon In reference to celebrity culture, such personae may be self made (e.g. lady gaga years ago), or they may have an innate charm (e.g. rihanna) or may have been a controversial character (Joan rivers). People who are served with a particular take may prove to be very accessible or intentionally not accessible

Across the River and Into the Trees Beginning with the disarming lead actor is the relatively unsung Liev Schreiber, who is the cornerstone of Paula Ortiz’s delicate and elegant adaptation of one of Ernest Hemingway’s last stories titled “Across the River and Into the Trees.” Schreiber is such an actor who easily captures the attention

Fanatical: The Catfishing of Tegan and Sara Erin Lee Carr’s documentary “Fanatical: The Catfishing of Tegan and Sara” provides a rare glimpse into how one member of Canadian indie band Tegan and Sara, Tegan Quin, was able to impersonate a number of her band’s fans in this case and deceive them with wad fake fishing

The Line Ethan Berger’s feature debut, The Line, does not bring anything novel to the table about college fraternity that you would not know. Instead, it spends its 100 minutes doing this over and over again (alongside Daniel Rossen’s jocular drumming), quite straightforwardly ‘the social networking’ type drama about how the never ending predatory and

Bookworm “Bookworm is too light a film,” say its creators, and they even call it a ‘comedy-drama fable’ a film about a father and a daughter ‘in author’ in author’s words so it’s safe to assume it all feels very personal to her. Though the film has a respectable 96 minutes runtime and comes close

Decoded The plot of the Chinese WW2 spy drama Decoded is peculiar for a number of reasons, mostly defying its otherwise cliched portrayal of a mathematician who helps the mainland army to solve intercepted coded messages. For starters, Decoded offers a quite different role to two stars: the soft-speaking heartthrob Liu Haoran, who sometimes portrays

Gracie & Pedro: Pets to the Rescue “Gracie & Pedro: Pets to the Rescue” is not only one of the worst animated films of the year but is also a hideous and frightening film in almost every sense. The shrill and frantic implicit signals aimed at young kids are unfathomable to me. To put it