Bestiaire
This might be Denis Côté’s most radical feature to date. A meditative… or rather, ruminative series of long static shots of various animals, Bestiaire will try many viewers’ patience, but I found it...
View ArticleBully
While the act of bullying may seem to some like a convenient and fashionable talking point for the liberal media, it is in fact a real problem in schools around the globe, and Lee Hirsch’s documentary...
View ArticleAnother Silence
After suffering a personal tragedy, a rogue Toronto cop (Marie-Josée Croze) goes all the way to Argentina to track down the young thug (Ignacio Rogers) who shattered her existence. A self-serious...
View ArticleComic-Con Episode IV: A Fan’s Hope
Once a year, legions of enthusiasts of all things geeky and niche make their way from far and wide to San Diego, California, for the only Comic-Con that truly matters. Their passion is untamed and is...
View ArticleYoung and Wild
Despite her evangelical, thou-shalt-not-fornicate upbringing (or maybe because of it?), 17-year-old Daniela (Alicia Rodríguez) indulges in various sexual adventures and fantasies, all of which she...
View ArticleDamsels in Distress
A group of sorority girls decide to take on depression and suicide prevention whilst grooming the fraternity riffraff into respectable young men in Whit Stillman’s Damsels in Distress, his first film...
View ArticleThe Hat Goes Wild
In this thoroughly worthless feature, a group of Montreal teenagers go on a canoe trip in the Quebec backwoods and somehow get stuck in a violent mess involving a large amount of illegal drugs, all of...
View ArticleLiving in the Material World
After tackling Bob Dylan in No Direction Home, Martin Scorsese sets out to tell the story of George Harrison via abundant archival footage, photographs and audio recordings, much of it previously...
View ArticleHabemus Papam
This sumptuous Cannes 2011 selection takes us behind the doors of the Vatican during a papal conclave. It’s fascinating to get such access, even through the prism of fiction, and Nanni Moretti finds...
View ArticleThe Avengers
Not so surprisingly, one of the most enjoyable things about The Avengers is the dynamic between de facto leader Captain America (Chris Evans), wiseass genius billionaire Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.),...
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