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Written and Directed by James Gunn, based on the DC Comics character created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster | 129 min | ▲▲ | ...
Maalik is broadly entertaining over its running time, which is bloated but well-paced. The violence is splashy and surprising ...
On last week’s CBC Information Morning I once again chatted with host Portia Clark about new films in cinemas, including ...
Andy and Quynh have their long awaited face off — set up in a post-credit sequence in the first film — and it’s a damp squib.
For a national cinema culture that seems weirdly allergic to genre, we can be proud in Canada of the quality thrillers, ...
Directed by Gareth Edwards | Written by David Koepp, from Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton | 134 min | ▲▲1/2 | In Cinemas ...
OK, apologies for that headline, but there is truth in advertising. About halfway through this return to the world of 28 Days Later from original creative team Danny Boyle and Alex Garland, I started ...
This is a tribute to the Ozploitation movies of the 1970s and ’80s, like Ted Kotcheff’s Wake In Fright, while also being that self-contained thing that’s becoming a genre unto itself: A Nicolas Cage ...
It felt appropriate on the weekend of the Canadian Screen Awards to dig into the dark, dirty past of the Canadian movie business. Highpoint was made during the much-maligned tax shelter years in ...
As regular readers of FITI will know, I’m a programmer and artistic director at Carbon Arc Cinema in Halifax. We’re going dark this week to give the cinema spotlight to the Halifax Independent ...
Movie talk on CBC Radio!Last week I went to see the new Mission: Impossible movie, The Final Reckoning, on its opening day — the same day I saw the new Disney remake of one of its animated hits, Lilo ...
Maybe fans of I Think You Should Leave, Tim Robinson’s TV series, will have some sense of what to expect with this movie, but I went in blind — just knowing that it is an awkward picture about ...