CLICK HERE to read all of our SDCC 2018 Coverage. While walking the exhibition floor on preview night at Comic-Con International, I made sure to stop by my favourite booth- Cinema Makeup School. They always have tons of cool demonstrations going on and makeup artists on hand to give you the inside scoop on how the […]
It’s time, once again, for the On DVD series featuring new releases from Paramount and Sony Home Entertainment. Annihilation Go get this Blu-ray + DVD + Digital set right now. You ought to have seen this excellent female-led sci-fi adventure in theatres because it deserves as big a screen as possible but Alex Garland’s a great filmmaker whose […]
One aspect of the documentary films I’ve seen this year at Hot Docs and Inside Out Festival, is the use of musical score to add drive and liveliness to the overall storytelling. While feature films are turning to cheaper synth style music for their scores, there are a few documentary films that manage to use […]
The Guardians is an alarming new documentary from Toronto director-journalist Billie Mintz about the American public and private guardianship scam which captures unsuspecting elderly out of their home by court order. At first it seems implausible, but Mintz carefully investigates this ongoing issue in the region where this scam started: Clark County, Nevada a suburb […]
Toronto’s HotDocs Festival is in full swing, and if you are craving a spectacular nature documentary look no further than Grant Baldwin’s love letter to British Columbia, This Mountain Life. Baldwin follows several subjects lust for adventure, solitude or inner peace. He travels alongside a mother and daughter team, Martina and Tania as they take […]
2017 was one of the greatest years of filmmaking we’ve ever seen. On one hand, that made finding enough brilliant nominees to fill each category of the Critics’ Pick Awards a breeze. On the other hand, it made picking winners a nightmare. There were a few things on which consensus came easy (Outstanding Actor came […]
For the past five years, I’ve been ranking every film I see- just the new releases, from January 1st to December 31st. The rankings are subjective, based entirely on how much I enjoyed and/or connected with or appreciated the film rather than on some sort of objective artistic criteria. Basically, this is a list of […]
For the past five years, I’ve been ranking every film I see- just…