Film Review: Irrational Man (2015)
byIrrational Man is the latest film from Woody Allen, and it has all the hallmarks of the best of the writer/director. Autumnal tones, jazz…
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Film Review: Dope (2015)
byOne of the most talked about films to come out of this year’s Sundance Film Festival was Dope, which after only a single screening…
Film Review: The Man from U.N.C.L.E (2015)
byImagine someone has a great video on their phone to show you. Do you want them to keep the phone in their pocket and…
MIFF 2015 Film Review: Phoenix (2014)
byAmongst the ruins of post-WWII Germany, writer and director Christian Petzold has created a restrained, tense thriller in his film Phoenix. The war has…
MIFF 2015 Film Review: The Witch (2015)
byThere is a (excuse the pun) bewitching quality about The Witch, directed and written by Robert Eggers, that renders this horror film both deeply unsettling…
MIFF 2015 Film Review: Cartel Land (2015)
byIn Cartel Land, director Matthew Heineman provides a terrifying look at the ongoing drug cartel crisis in Mexico by telling the stories of two…
MIFF 2015 Film Review: How to Dance in Ohio (2015)
byThe too-cool-for-schoolers can relax; this isn’t a Glee spin-off. It barely even features any dancing. Alexandra Shiva has dealt previously with the arts in…
Film Review: Girlhood (2014)
byThe third film from French writer/director Céline Sciamma has been gaining a reputation across Europe and abroad as one of the breakout hits of…
Film Review: The Blue Room (2015)
byDirected, co-written by, and starring Mathieu Amalric, who most people might know as the villain from Quantum of Solace, The Blue Room is a…
4 Film Review: Desire for Beauty (2013)
byDesire for Beauty adds another voice to the discussion of beauty and how we define it, specifically looking at plastic surgery. The film documents…