American Honey, filmmaker Andrea Arnold’s sprawling, warts and all look at modern Americana, is both a staggering achievement and a bit too unwieldy for its own good.
We take a look at three of the films playing the 2016 Toronto After Dark Film Festival: the foreign language horror movie Under the Shadow, the South Korean zombie thriller …
We take a look at Shadow World, Disturbing the Peace, and Almost Sunrise, three films that are must-sees from this year’s 16th annual Reelworld Film Festival.
The collection of horror shorts found in Minutes Past Midnight is a lot stronger than many similarly minded anthologies offer up.
The beauty of documentary filmmaking is that an inspirational story of overcoming hardship can be told without sugar-coating things or sacrificing raw human emotion. The NFB produced Gun Runners, directed …
Shockingly dull, inexcusably drab, and listlessly paced, The Girl on the Train feels about as exciting as being locked in a room with someone explaining what they just read to …
We take a look at a trio of documentaries in Canadian cinemas this coming weekend: Adam Irving’s exceptional Off the Rails, Marty Langford’s wildly entertaining Doomed: The Untold Story of …
Set against the backdrop of President Barak Obama’s tough but ultimately hollow talk that American troops would leave Afghansitan in 2013, Nicole Nielsen Horanyi’s documentary Motley’s Law focuses on one …
We take some brief looks at the stranger-than-fiction documentary The Lovers and the Despot, the Israeli selection for this year’s Best Foreign Film Oscar, Sand Storm, and Daniel Radcliff in …
The elements of a great film – and perhaps the next great cinematic franchise to be spawned from a young adult novel – are initially on display in director Tim …