Movies
Interview: Waiting for 'Superman' director Davis Guggenheim
Posted by: Mark McLeod • October 15, 2010 @ 11:02am
Davis Guggenheim didn't start out intending to make documentaries, even though his father Charles had directed many during his career.
With the recent outbreak of vampire movies in the last couple years, it's always nice when a film comes along with an inspiring take on the genre. Let Me In is that film, but, because it's a remake of a Swedish film, it can't take all the credit.
Those with a relative knowledge of Canadian cinema may very well be familiar with Pete and Joey, the two protagonists from Don Shebib's 1970 film Goin' Down the Road, a piece that one could argue was essential marking a move for Canadian films from the proliferation of National Film Board documentaries to fiction features.
TIFF Interviews: Canadian Directors Deborah Chow, Katrin Bowen, and Ingrid Veninger
Posted by: Elizabeth Hughes Belzil • September 26, 2010 @ 7:58pm
During the final days of this year's Toronto International Film Festival, I had the opportunity to speak to three Canadian women, all at the festival promoting their feature directorial debuts: Deborah Chow (winner of the Skyy Vodka Award for Best First Feature by a Canadian Director), Katrin Bowen, and Ingrid Veninger.
Review: Ladies & Gentlemen... The Rolling Stones (1973)
Posted by: Mike Walkey • September 24, 2010 @ 3:47pm
Like many, I discovered the Rolling Stones as a young adolescent. The energy, the power, the sexual angst. I identified with it all and it shaped the man I am now.
I was 15. But this was not 1964.
It was 1994.
8 Films: A Brief Guide to the 2010 TIFF
Posted by: Elizabeth Hughes Belzil • September 22, 2010 @ 7:56pm
The first thing I noticed upon arriving at the Gala screening of Janie Jones at this year's Toronto International Film Festival was the inordinate number of beautiful and svelte six-foot-tall women towering over me -- enough to make anyone of normal proportions (i.e. myself) a trifle self-conscious.
Interview: Victor Webster, star of Heart of a Dragon, the new film inspired by Rick Hansen's journey
Posted by: Mark McLeod • September 13, 2010 @ 8:44pm
Canadian actor Victor Webster has been quite busy in the dozen years or so he's been in the business.
You know summer is officially over when the B movies hit the big screen to bridge the gap between blockbusters and award season. It may be early for the October horror movie season, but here come buckets of blood anyways with Robert Rodriguez's Machete. However, instead of just good old fashion movie magic corn syrup blood, it looks like tomato paste.
I know what you're thinking. This guy is giving a movie with man-eating fish as its main characters a 4 out of 5 star rating, and therefore must be an idiot and/or he doesn't know what he is talking about?
Well you're wrong, because this film is so GD entertaining it might just be the most fun you'll have at the movies all year.
With a mediocre summer for movies almost over, I was looking for one last film with a good cast. Having a good cast can make a film better than its script, and it can also save a movie from poor material (ie. The Expendables). The Takers falls into the latter category, with a cast of mainly up-and-coming or younger actors.
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