It’s pretty clear by now that trilogies are important in film history. From The Godfather to the “Before” trilogy, good trios have proven worthy of the love of the masses. Sometimes it’s hard to complete a story in just one film. In that case, you make three. Three great stories, all complementing each other to […]
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10 Recent Movies That Divide Audiences and Critics
While critics and audiences have always had different tastes and opinions when it comes to certain movies, over the past few years it seems those differences have become overly radical. Nowadays, audiences seem to loathe movies that critics praise, and vice versa. If you were to pinpoint one movie over the last that started this […]
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10 Must-See Movie Masterpieces of French Crime Cinema
Cinema and France. Or is it better to say France and cinema? The birth of an infant motion picture dates from 1895, by the French Lumière brothers. But apart from giving rise to the whole foundation of arthouse cinema, including cornerstone films as “Un Chien Andalou” and “À bout de soufflé,” France has also focused […]
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10 Great Recent Movies You Might Have Missed
Tell someone that you haven’t heard of the latest Marvel blockbuster and they would be hard-pressed to believe you. Even if you are not be interested in watching it, the odds are you will have heard all about it, seen it advertised various times and driven past billboards showing its release date. Of course, any […]
Under the Silver Lake – VIFF 2018 Review
“It’s silly wasting time on something that doesn’t matter,” says a dreamy young woman with a fondness for balloons (Grace Van Patten) to an embittered and unemployed young man turned would-be detective named Sam (Andrew Garfield) in writer-director David Robert Mitchell’s surreal new film, Under the Silver Lake. It’s one of those almost throwaway lines […]
Freaks – VIFF 2018 Review
The best part of the overly ambitious sci-fi thriller Freaks is Bruce Dern as a creepy Mr. Snowcone ice cream man. At least, that’s what he appears to be at first, before too much plot overpowers a story that would work well as a graphic novel, but on the big screen it’s too much of […]