Film Review: Graceful Girls (2015)
Anyone who has ever participated in dance should appreciate Olivia Peniston Bird’s debut feature Graceful Girls. On the contrary, if exaggerated smiles, sequins, and…
Will and Grace
Film Review: San Andreas (2015)
If anyone’s going to save you from the most devastating earthquake the world has ever seen, it makes sense that it would be The…
MIFF 2013: Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen (2012)
Responding to the recent economic disaster in his home country of Hungary and its effects on his film industry, director György Pálfi has made…
Film Review: Pain and Gain (2013)
Pain and Gain isn’t an action-packed comedy, it’s offensive, boring and way too drawn out. Failing to be entertaining on the most basic of levels, around the halfway mark you’re wondering how it could possibly continue. Whether the encompassing parody is deliberate or not it is very unsettling.
Film Review: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2011)
Stephen Daldry’s adaptation of Jonathan Safran Foer’s Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close delves deep into a singular story of a search undertaken by a…
MIFF Review: Rejoice and Shout (2010)
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xo3lwPGahlg] By James Madden. Opening with an impromptu solo on the pew in a church, a young girl sings a startling rendition of ‘Amazing…
Recently and lazily viewed
Okay, so there’s a lot that I’ve seen of late, and like the lazy person that I was when I started this blog with…
Film Review: Why Him? (2016)
Be prepared for swearing. Be prepared for evasive parkour. Be prepared for a moose carcass displayed in a case of it’s own urine. Laird…
TV Review: Smash, Pilot
Following in the guise of the popular network musical series, NBC’s Smash sets out to appeal to a similar audience.
Film Review: The Addams Family (2019)
After their involvement in the original and hilarious Sausage Party, directing pair Greg Tiernan and Conrad Vernon go the safe route with The Addams…