Interview: Wilby Wonderful director Daniel MacIvor
Posted by: Mark McLeod • October 10, 2004 @ 12:00am
As the film festival entered its second week and I entered about day five or six of minimal sleeping, I'd seen far too many movies, and the location at which I live began to seem a distant memory, I took a step back.
Caution, this film may induce outbursts of "road rage"!
The 1998 French film Taxi spawned two sequels and became one of the most successful writing projects for French director/screenwriter phenom Luc Besson (La Femme Nikita).
It's hard to believe that in the year 2004, that not every country in the world is free. There is no better example of the this than the attacks America felt on September 11th, 2001, when the Twin Towers in New York City were hit by hijacked planes.
Where has all the heart and humor gone?
In the latest computer-animated extravaganza from DreamWorks Pictures, Will Smith lends his voice to a fish named Oscar, who happens to be a fast-talking fish who dreams of bigger and brighter things.
Okay, if you were to ask me last week how many movies I planned to see at this year's Vancouver International Film Festival, lovingly referred to as VIFF by film geeks young and old, then I would have told you I had a tentative schedule of nearly 50 ready and lined up.
Life in a small town can be difficult. People always want to leave for the big city, but at the same time the change in lifestyle and surroundings can prove to be difficult. For Eve Stuckley (Marla Sokoloff), an aspiring artist who's working as a waitress at the local Hog-Chow diner (a place she's inherited from her dead mother and father), life couldn't be further from perfect.
Without question, the disease of paranoid schizophrenia is one of the scariest out there. Striking mostly young people between the ages of 15 and 34, it's a disease that leads to people becoming confused, delusional, violent, and without medication can lead people to becoming homeless.
As I stated recently in my theatrical review of John Waters' A Dirty Shame, I'm not easily offended when it comes to subject matter, be it violence or sexuality. I don't often consider walking out of a movie, because I always hold onto the hope that it can improve.
Ho! Ho! Ho! Merry Christmas! All right, I know what you're thinking. Have the movie studios finally lost it entirely and released Holiday movies in September? After all, it's only a matter of time before the holiday season extends back into the back-to-school shopping season.
What was that?
That is basically what audiences will be saying as they exit the theatre after witnessing director Joseph Ruben's thriller The Forgotten, which stars Academy Award nominee Julianne Moore.
Moore stars as Telly Paretta, a grieving mother who is trying to cope with the death of her young son Sam after a horrific plane crash.
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