The list of truly memorable hockey movies is short, but near the very top, and definitely sitting in the penalty box for excessive fisticuffs, is Goon, the raucous and extremely bloody 2011 comedy from director Michael Dowse (What If, Take Me Home Tonight) and writers Jay Baruchel (Man Seeking Woman) and Evan Goldberg (Pineapple Express,…
It’s that time of year again where I pack my belongings and head to London for the 2017 EE BAFTA awards. It was no surprise to me when La La Land picked up the best film award. For popularity and sheer quality alone that award was predicted months in advance. There were some incredible movies on…
It’s not usually the type of movie I’d see at the cinema but as I was down London yesterday after the BAFTA’s ceremony the only film that was showing at the time was Lion and after all the talk and hype the film has been getting, in addition to Dev Patel picking up a supporting…
Sobering. Troubling. Shattering. The 2010 documentary Nostalgia for the Light hits with the blunt emotional force of a freight train, while also providing a glimpse into the cosmos that has rarely been seen. This revelatory and consummately constructed 90 minute film delves into one of the world’s great genocidal atrocities, and is startlingly unique in…
AMC’s THE WALKING DEAD® Collector’s Model is the ultimate collection for the TV series’ fans and collectors alike, a perfect display of all of your favourite chracters in one place. These models approved by AMC are cast in resin and metal and are hand painted with incredible detail, proportioned to a 1:27th scale (Mini Me’s…
Will Arnett plays our Lego caped crusader with his classic dry wit that made him such a highlight of The LEGO Movie and he’s back again at his best in this hilarious movie that never takes itself too seriously. The film reminede me of a Scary Movie style spoof in LEGO form. There are so…
I’m picky when it comes to fantasy movies. Very picky. I’m not a fan of LOTR or any of its seemingly endless derivatives. But while not perfect, I’ve always had a HUGE soft spot for Rob Bowman’s Reign of Fire, which sports a genre-popping screenplay by Gregg Chabot, Kevin Peterka, and Matthew Greenberg that had…
The elegiac and introspective drama Jackie is not an attempt at a traditional biopic of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, and it’s all the more poignant as a result. Taking a very specific route with its narrative and presenting the story during the incredibly sad and difficult days that immediately followed her husband’s assassination, Pablo Larrain’s smart…
I expected to be starving after watching The Founder, John Lee Hancock’s sneakily dark expose of the origins of McDonald’s but I was sorely mistaken . Robert D. Siegel’s swift screenplay effectively laid out the broad-stroke history to one of the world’s most popular franchise restaurants, never backpedaling on any of the ethically and morally…
Director Peter Berg had a banner year in 2016. He first released his disaster movie epic Deepwater Horizon in September, and most recently, his late December release, the Boston Marathon bombing drama has gone into nationwide expansion in the states with a worldwide release to follow. Tobias A. Schliessler’s outstanding and highly visceral…
Let’s Be Evil is a futuristic sci-fi horror flick that focuses heavily on children’s addiction to technology, twisted on it’s head with a bit of Children of the Corn Style. It looks great, it contains great acting and small glimpses of the capabilities of AR technology but falls hard in terms of story, dragging out…
Denzel Washington delivers a volcanic performance in his latest directorial effort, Fences, while the magnificent Viola Davis counters with her own blistering piece of internalized acting; the two artists literally explode off of the screen. Efficiently directed by Washington, the film was adapted for the screen by playwright August Wilson, whose original, Pulitzer-winning effort was…
White Bird in a Blizzard is something unique – a touching coming of age story, a tense and unpredictable whodunit with a dynamite final twist, a study of marital discord, and a time capsule back to the late 80’s, all of it filtered through some surrealistic touches and flights of fancy for good artistic measure….
Uninterested in being a straightforward biopic and all the more enjoyable because of that fact, Don Cheadle’s impressionistic and time-jumping portrait of iconic jazz artist Miles Davis, appropriately titled Miles Ahead (the title of his 1957 album), is a celebration of its subject while still presenting a warts and all narrative that focuses on the…
The DeLorean Time Machine is the most iconic car in movie history but over the years the car itself was on the verge of heading to the scrapyard after decades of harsh weather, manhandling and souvenir hunters taking bits and pieces along the way. Back to the Future writer / producer Bob Gale, Universal Studios…
The Big Lebowski is a favorite comedy for so many people because it speaks to everyone’s inner “Dude,” and it balances various forms of comedy – physical, verbal, visual, spiritual, existential – in a way that few other films have successfully pulled off. This was the last movie I think anyone would have expected from…
