Junebug was a critical favourite at the Sundance Festival this year and for good reasons. It has good actors with good performances, great directing, a fine script...
From the CanCon "Weird Sex" file comes this exploration of sexual awakening as experienced by characters of different ages, genders, and orientations. With a 13-year-old boy as the lead, Thing starts with a family of environmentalists enjoying a nice nude sauna together. They live in a hay hut shack in the rural area outside of some nondescript Maritimes town.
Some of Ireland's greatest actors and its greatest living director teams up again with writer Patrick McCabe for this alternately fun and serious view of a transvestite's travels and travails as he/she seeks out his mother who abandoned him.
In the political world in the United States of America, no one figure is more controversial to both political parties than documentarian Michael Moore, whose 2004 feature Fahrenheit 9/11 has become one of the most widely seen documentaries in history.
VIFF Review: The Waldo Cumberbund Story
Posted by: Showbiz Monkeys • October 3, 2005 @ 11:59am
The Waldo Cumberbund Story is a unique and off-beat tale of childhood dreams about a young boy's desire to play the ukelele in a Hawaiian band.
EIFF Review: Plagues and Pleasures on the Salton Sea
Posted by: Scott Hayes • October 2, 2005 @ 11:59am
"Enjoy climate, comfort, and stench!!!" That's the tag line from the poster for this, another fine doc at EIFF05, followed by "featuring Hungarian revolutionaries, Christian nudists, pop stars, land sharks, hard drinkers, empty cities, failed resort towns, tons of dead fish, a dying café and a man who built a mountain."
Ah the tangled webs we weave when first we practice to irrigate a de
Some documentaries may have interesting subjects but are real yawners. I remember struggling through Grey Gardens by the Maysles brothers.
EIFF Review: Waking Up Walter: The Walter Gretzky Story
Posted by: Scott Hayes • October 1, 2005 @ 11:59am
Based on Gretzky's book "On Family, Hockey and Healing", this telefilm is a look at one man's recovery from a stroke. Okay, the man just happens to be the father of the greatest hockey player who ever lived, Wayne Gretzky.
Who was Truman Capote? What drove this man to write the legendary true-crime novel, "In Cold Blood"?
In the new film Capote, you can't really classify the film as a bio-pic, but a sliver of one man's very dynamic life. The film explores what happened to Truman Capote (Phillip Seymour Hoffman) when he ventured deep into Kansas in the winter of 1959.
When Fox Television cancelled the short-lived TV series, Firefly, many of us mourned. But it was probably more the network's fault than it was the ratings for the cancellation of the show.
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