Est. 1998
It’s ironic that someone who champions brevity as I often do would love Bollywood so much. I find that most stories can be told properly in 90 minutes, so why don’t I mind a 3h15 monster like this? Well, for one thing, a good deal of that gargantuan running time is devoted to the spectacular musical numbers. Take these out and you’d effectively save almost…
Wanna smile? A lot? Rent this movie. Watching this adventure flick, I was a kid again. I was grinning the whole time, getting all excited, sometimes needing to restrain myself from jumping up and prancing around. I just LOVED this movie! The uplifting score, the glorious Technicolor cinematography, the heroics of Errol Flynn… It all gels to perfection and makes the viewer regress to childhood….
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 and personal. It wasn’t a flawless film, but it stuck with you. “Incendies” goes even further, both in its filmmaking mastery and thematic depth. It’s still not a perfect film,…
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 of a horror movie, the film to see is definitively “The Evil Dead”. What makes it so damn good is that A) It was made for 500 grands by a…
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 yuppie life to go into the Witness Protection Program, Cinq-Mars ends up hiding in a kitschy camping community managed by the equally kitschy Jackie Pigeon (Sylvie Moreau). Lepage can be…
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 thriller about a young agent named Ethan Hunt gets tangled up in a web of treachery and double crossings. Nothing is as it seems, and Hunt never really knows who’s…
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, Radha Mitchell gives a truly great performance in it, so I jumped on the opportunity to talk to her over the phone about it. “Bonjour, ça va?” Oui, ça va!…
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 is truly one of the coolest action heroes ever to strike the screen. The leather hat, the whip, the attitude… He’s one hell of a fighter, as well as a…
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 so. It’s the first time I got to work at home in 10 years, man. It’s been a long long long time. And it was such a neat way for…
Hello! Hi, hi how are you? Pretty good, yourself? I’m very well, thank you very much. I’m Kevin, I’m calling from Montreal Oh, lovely! Are you in Toronto, is that it? That’s right. Ok, so we’re here to talk about The Disappearance of Alice Creed… You must get this a lot, but what made you want to make such a harsh movie? I think that…