With “Polytechnique”, Denis Villeneuve finally shook off all his film school tics and misguided attempts at profundity, instead making a brilliantly crafted picture that took a dark page from History and made it feel immediate…
Date Archives August 2006
THE EVIL DEAD
Movie Infos Title: The Evil Dead Year: 1982 Director: Sam Raimi And I don’t even like scary movies! Even “Psycho” and “Halloween” didn’t do it for me. If you really want to see one hell…
Camping Sauvage
Pierre-Louis Cinq Mars (Guy A. Lepage) is a snobbish broker who reports a hit and run to the police, unaware that the culprit is the vicious leader of a biker gang. Forced to leave his…
Xavier Dolan
2009 J’ai tué ma mère58 [ review ] 2010 Les amours imaginaires41 [ review ] 2012 Laurence Anyways50 [ review ] 2013 Tom à la ferme39 [ I’m a sucker for old-school film scores. Seriously,…
MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE
Movie Infos Title: Mission: Impossible Year: 1996 Director: Brian De Palma Writer: Robert Towne, David Koepp, Steven Zallian In a way, this movie has two personalities. In a way, it’s a very complicated international espionage…
Radha Mitchell: Queen of Love
As written by Allison Burnett and directed by Robert Benton, “Feast of Love” is kind of a mixed bag, as rom-com ensemble films tend to be (see also: “Playing by Heart”, “Love Actually”, etc.). Still,…
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
This is one of my generation’s classics, you know, one of these flicks that we’ve all seen countless times since when we were kids and have never outgrown. As played by Harrison Ford, Indiana Jones…
Jay Baruchel is… The Trotsky
Last time we met, you were just about to star in “The Trotsky”, and you seemed really happy that you were gonna get to shoot a movie in Montreal again. “Very much so, very much…