Review: Summerland
Set mostly during World War II, Summerland takes place on the beautiful and remote southern coast of England. Misanthropic writer Alice (Gemma Arterton, Vita & Virginia, Tamara Drewe) lives in…
Review: The Secret: Dare to Dream
I vaguely remember getting caught up in “The Secret” craze circa 2006. One of my more spiritual-minded friends passed along a copy of the popular self-help book by Rhonda Byrne.…
Review: The Cuban
The Cuban started life as a short film script. But when they couldn't get the money to shoot it they expanded it to a feature and crowdfunded to get started.…
Cinema Clash podcast: Radioactive; Yes, God, Yes; The Rental
I thought about writing up a quick review for Yes, God, Yes. But then I thought, no, God, no. It was awkward enough talking about it with my podcast partner…
Review: Helmut Newton: The Bad and the Beautiful
If you spent any time reading or viewing Vogue from the 60s to the 90s, you are familiar with photographer Helmut Newton's work. Naked women often in power poses, most…
Quickie Review: The Rental
The setup is all there for your usual thriller, with a few of the standard horror tropes thrown in. A couple of couples rent a house for the weekend in…
Review: Radioactive
Who coined the term "radioactivity"? Who was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize? Who was the first person to win two Nobel Prizes? What husband and wife duo…
Mini-Review: Dirt Music
Good actors in gorgeous settings without a cohesive story does not add up to a great movie. In this rom-dram from down under, Georgie (Kelly Macdonald - No Country for…
Quickie review: The Tobacconist
In this coming-of-age story, set mostly in Vienna just as the Nazis are rising, 17-year-old Franz (Simon Morzé) arrives from the countryside to work at a tobacco shop owned by…
Quickie Review: Guest of Honour
Somewhere in this movie from director Atom Egoyan (The Sweet Hereafter) is a decent story, but you really have to work to find it. It's a father-daughter melodrama about Jim…
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Review: The Old Guard
In the mood for a superhero action movie? Historical fiction? A supernatural flick? A war drama? Sci-fi/fantasy? A message movie? A hint of romance? A high-octane, double-dose of girl power?…
Review: Hamilton
Let's be real. Hamilton is critic-proof. Everyone I know who desperately wanted to see it has, by now, seen the filmed version of the hit Broadway musical at least once…
Review: Denise Ho: Becoming the Song
This film could not be more timely. Just days ago the Chinese government passed a repressive national security law that essentially kills the pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong. I was…
Review: The Truth (La Vérité)
Director Hirokazu Koreeda's follow-up to his award winning Shoplifters could not be more different. No longer set in his home country Japan, The Truth is a mother-daughter drama set in…