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“Though Michael Mann has many fans, it would be inaccurate to call us one. Sure, we consider his version of Manhunter to be pretty much the best (Brian Cox’s chillingly reserved Hannibal ‘Lecktor’ far better than Anthony Hopkins’ later scenery chewing). Mann’s recent thrillers have all been turgid, reaching an absolute nadir with Miami Vice—the [...]
July 3rd, 2009 : Columns, Torontoist
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“What an incredible week for cinema it is if you’ve got a genuine interest in the representation of women in film. It’s the kind of week you could write an entire research paper on. First of all we’ve got Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, which uses Michael Bay’s ever-so-male gaze to stare at Megan Fox [...]
June 26th, 2009 : Columns, Torontoist
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“Weirdest news of the week? That Lars Von Trier’s much-talked-about-at-Cannes horror film Antichrist is receiving a video-game adaptation. How utterly bizarre.”
June 19th, 2009 : Columns, Torontoist
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“Perhaps it’s not handsome, but there’s a weird sort of gratification when you read an article or review that agrees with something you’re already thinking. Such as Jason Anderson’s review in Eye of Away We Go, where he notes that ‘Even the least discerning and most pliant indie hipsters may have cringed at the poster [...]
June 12th, 2009 : Columns, Torontoist
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“This year’s blockbuster season seems to have dragged on interminably already, but it’s finally starting to look (tee hee) up, with the long-awaited release of Pixar’s latest, Up, today. Their first in 3D, we’ve wondered if they’ve chosen such a vertically minded project because the form of 3D projection used tends to look better when [...]
May 29th, 2009 : Columns, Torontoist
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“It’s Terminator Salvation week! This year’s franchise reboot that we were most looking forward to (we’ve always just liked Terminator more than Star Trek), though when we say “looking forward to” we mean “trepidatious about any new film directed by that glossy hack, McG.” (Seriously—who calls themselves “McG”? And then expects people to call him [...]
May 22nd, 2009 : Columns, Torontoist
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“This week most of the cinematic excitement is kept for Cannes—after all, those lucky sods have already been able to see Pixar’s latest film, Up!—so there’s not very much that is likely to excite us otherwise (apart from the Inside Out festival, of course, as covered by our own Johnnie Walker).”
May 15th, 2009 : Columns, Torontoist
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“Seems like the only release anyone cares about this week is the J.J. Abrams Star Trek reboot, a release notable simply for the number of people we know that have come out of the woodwork as massive Trekkies—possibly feeling that now it’s safe, as with a hot young cast (including the brilliant Simon Pegg, pictured [...]
May 8th, 2009 : Columns, Torontoist
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“This week’s most eagerly hyped is X-Men Origins: Wolverine, which has famously been available as an illegal download for ages. So we could have seen it, if we weren’t completely uninterested in the idea of watching a work print of a film on our laptop… or really just the idea of a Wolverine film in [...]
May 1st, 2009 : Columns, Torontoist
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“For most cinephiles not still captivated by the Toronto Jewish Film Festival, this week will simply serve as preparation for Hot Docs—NOW, in fact, used its movie section feature as an vague attempt to help you plan—but if you really can’t wait to see a documentary there’s always earth, the first film from Disney’s new, [...]
April 24th, 2009 : Columns, Torontoist
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