Film Review: The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 (2015)
With The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 the popular film franchise comes to a sombre, violent end. Working with the same team from the…
Film Review: Best of Enemies (2015)
In documentary film Best of Enemies, co-directors and writers Robert Gordon and Morgan Neville take a look at a critical historical juncture in how American…
Film Review: Ricki and the Flash (2015)
It almost goes without saying that Meryl Streep is amongst the greatest actors ever. She can seemingly do no wrong. So the (rhetorical) question…
MIFF 2015 Film Review: The Guest (2014)
The Guest, directed by Adam Wingard and written by Simon Barrett, is a hilariously bonkers ride. It starts off innocently enough: a man arrives…
MIFF 2015 Film Review: James White (2015)
In James White, director and screenwriter Josh Mond has created an understated character study of a man struggling to cope with his father’s death…
MIFF 2015: Film Review: Yakuza Apocalypse (2015)
How does one approach reviewing a film like Yakuza Apocalypse? Directed by Takashi Miike and with a screenplay by Yoshitaka Yamaguchi, the film could be…
MIFF 2015 Film Review: The Invitation (2015)
It has been quite a while since a thriller as taut and superbly crafted as The Invitation has come along. Written by Phil Hay…
MIFF 2015 Film Review: My Golden Days (2015)
There is a messiness to youth, and how we remember it, that is visceral, often indescribable. This is my first encounter with French director…
MIFF 2015 Film Review: Phoenix (2014)
Amongst 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)
There is a (excuse the pun) bewitching quality about The Witch, directed and written by Robert Eggers, that renders this horror film both deeply unsettling…