March 20, 2009
“Sounded like another week of largely unimpressive films on offer—from the ridiculous Nicolas Cage flick Knowing (called “the silliest apocalyptic pot-boiler of all time, edging out even M. Night Shyamalan’s The Happening” by Eye’s Adam Nayman) through the depressingly formulaic Miss March (absurd, considering it comes from people who made their name on YouTube, of [...]
March 20th, 2009 : Columns, Torontoist
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March 13, 2009
“We’re all sick of “torture porn” by now—and just as sick of using the phrase—so the new remake of The Last House on the Left shouldn’t even be worth mentioning as an “also playing…” in this column. Except we saw the trailer and—as much as we hate to say this—we were captivated.”
Street Horrrsing could well [...]
March 13th, 2009 : Columns, Torontoist
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March 6, 2009
“One of the films that Stephen McHattie is in this week is going to make hundreds of millions of dollars (well, it’s likely to) after a blanket marketing campaign and on the strength of the source material; the other one isn’t.”
You should all see Pontypool.
March 6th, 2009 : Columns, Torontoist
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February 27, 2009
“In all honesty, Torontoist hasn’t had a lot of space in its brain for film this week—it’s been almost completely taken up with thoughts of Street Fighter IV, the latest (and long awaited) sequel in the premier fighting game series. With our head filled with thoughts of attempting to focus attack cancel Sakura’s super into [...]
February 27th, 2009 : Columns, Torontoist
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February 20, 2009
“We were recently pleased to see Not Another Teen Movie playing on a basic cable channel recently, because we rather like that film: it’s easily the best of the genre-parody genre, because it’s knowing, not just randomly gross, and TV – split up by adverts, the swears cut out – always feels like the place [...]
February 20th, 2009 : Columns, Torontoist
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February 13, 2009
“Okay, so you know by now that we often come to our conclusions on the films that we mention in this column after only watching the trailer, but I don’t think anyone is going to argue with us when we say that The International has quite easily the most boring trailer ever. There’s some kind [...]
February 13th, 2009 : Columns, Torontoist
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February 6, 2009
“February has begun, and it’s as if all of the movie distributors have woken up after hibernation, because there’s a sudden deluge of films, and astonishingly not all of them have been shoved out just to get it over and done with.”
Films!
February 6th, 2009 : Columns, Torontoist
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January 30, 2009
“To everyone who has seen The Wrestler, we always have the same advice: ’see Beyond The Mat.’ The clear influence behind the story of Randy ‘The Ram’ Robinson, it displays the very highs and lows of ’sports entertainment’ that The Wrestler fictionalizes. Vampiro: Angel, Devil, Hero isn’t quite as successful.”
This column is actually largely a [...]
January 30th, 2009 : Columns, Reviews, Torontoist
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January 23, 2009
“While watching the trailers for Underworld: Rise of the Lycans that have been wallpapering TV recently, you may have wondered two things. First of all, “Rise of the Lichens?” and then probably, “Who is that beardy bloke who keeps yelling?”
We’ll tell you who it is. It’s only bloody Tony Blair!”
This is probably funnier as an [...]
January 23rd, 2009 : Columns, Torontoist
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January 16, 2009
“So where were you last night when the power cut hit? We can tell you where we were—sitting in the Bloor Cinema watching some old-school trailers and waiting for the Rue Morgue screening of the original My Bloody Valentine to start. While initially confusing—the lights going off in a cinema is, after all, expected, and [...]
January 16th, 2009 : Columns, Torontoist
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