MIFF 2015 Film Review: Cartel Land (2015)
In Cartel Land, director Matthew Heineman provides a terrifying look at the ongoing drug cartel crisis in Mexico by telling the stories of two…
Film Review: The Absent One (2014)
From Denmark comes director Mikkel Norgaard’s film The Absent One, the second instalment in the Department Q series based on the novels by Jussi…
Film Review: They Have Escaped (2014)
In Finnish film They Have Escaped, director Jukka-Pekka Valkeapää, who also co-wrote the screenplay with Pilvi Peltola, offers a dark and unsettling look into…
Film Review: Silent Heart (2014)
Danish film Silent Heart explores the sensitive issue of euthanasia by grounding its political stance in the personal and the intimate. Directed by Bille…
Review: Blowfly Park (2014)
In Swedish film Blowfly Park, director and screenwriter Jens Östberg has crafted a restrained and stylish portrait of an ordinary man grappling with the…
Film Review: Amy (2015)
It has been four years since Amy Winehouse passed away at the age of 27, and it goes without saying that her life was…
Film Review: Inside Out (2015)
Pixar has done it again. With their latest film Inside Out, directed by Pete Docter and with a screenplay by Docter, Meg LeFauve and…
Film Review: Wild Tales (2014)
Wild Tales, written and directed by Damián Szifron, certainly lives up to its name. It was nominated as Argentina’s entry for the Best Foreign…
MIFF14: Mommy (2014)
Causing quite a stir at the Cannes Film Festival earlier this year was Mommy, written and directed by Canadian wunderkind Xavier Dolan. Infused with…
Film Review: Top Five (2015)
Comedian Chris Rock is perhaps best known for his distinctive voice (see the Madagascar films) delivering foul-mouthed observations about race, sex and politics, many…