Film Review: I Origins (2014)
Following the success of his debut feature Another Earth, which was a rave at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, writer/director Mike Cahill’s sophomore effort…
Film Review: Night Moves (2013)
Following the critical success of Meek’s Cutoff, American independent filmmaker Kelly Reichardt returns with Night Moves, another deliberately paced drama, this time following three…
Film Review: Boyhood (2014)
Boyhood is writer/director Richard Linklater’s testament film. A masterpiece, destined to be remembered as one of the best films of the decade (if not…
Film Review: The Grandmaster (2013)
The new film from perhaps the most celebrated auteur from all of Asia, maybe even world cinema in general, should be met with celebration;…
Film Review: 20,000 Days On Earth (2014)
20,000 Days On Earth is effectively a staged documentary that purports to follow Australian born music legend Nick Cave on his titular anniversary. Throughout…
Film Review: Predestination (2014)
After tackling zombies in their crazy, anything goes debut Undead, and then vampires in their still much under-appreciated masterpiece Daybreakers, the local writing and…
MIFF 2014: Life of Riley (2014)
Something of a spiritual companion piece to his penultimate masterpiece You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet, French master filmmaker Alain Resnais’s final film (he died…
MIFF 2014: Life Itself (2014)
It’s hard to imagine what the landscape of film criticism would be had there been no Roger Ebert. Forget for a moment that he…
MIFF 2014: Baal (1970)
Screening as part of the Masters & Restorations program at this year’s MIFF is Baal, writer/director Volker Schlöndorff’s television adaptation of Bertolt Brecht’s play…
MIFF 2014: (Impressions of…) Goodbye To Language 3D (2014)
After abandoning (relatively) conventional narrative decades ago, French maverick Jean-Luc Godard’s latest feature is a philosophical exploration of three dimensional cinema – a concept…