Film Review: I Origins (2014)
Written by Chris Smith Originally published 16 September 2014 Following the success of his debut feature Another Earth, which was a rave at the…
Film Review: Night Moves (2013)
Written by Chris Smith Originally published 10 September 2014 Following the critical success of Meek’s Cutoff, American independent filmmaker Kelly Reichardt returns with Night…
Film Review: Boyhood (2014)
Written by Chris Smith Originally published 4 September 2014 Boyhood is writer/director Richard Linklater’s testament film. A masterpiece, destined to be remembered as one…
Film Review: The Grandmaster (2013)
Written by Chris Smith Originally published 3 September 2014 The new film from perhaps the most celebrated auteur from all of Asia, maybe even…
Film Review: 20,000 Days On Earth (2014)
Written by Chris Smith Originally published 2 September 2014 20,000 Days On Earth is effectively a staged documentary that purports to follow Australian born…
Film Review: Predestination (2014)
Written by Chris Smith Originally published 26 August 2014 After tackling zombies in their crazy, anything goes debut Undead, and then vampires in their…
MIFF 2014: Life of Riley (2014)
Written by Chris Smith Originally published 9 August 2014 Something of a spiritual companion piece to his penultimate masterpiece You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet,…
MIFF 2014: Life Itself (2014)
Written by Chris Smith Originally published 9 August 2014 It’s hard to imagine what the landscape of film criticism would be had there been…
MIFF 2014: Baal (1970)
Written by Chris Smith Originally published 9 August 2014 Screening as part of the Masters & Restorations program at this year’s MIFF is Baal,…
MIFF 2014: (Impressions of…) Goodbye To Language 3D (2014)
Written by Chris Smith Originally published 9 August 2014 After abandoning (relatively) conventional narrative decades ago, French maverick Jean-Luc Godard’s latest feature is a…