TIFF 2012 Review: CLIP Shocks and Compels
(Warning: this film has gross content. GROSS!) Serbia is certainly a country to keep track of, film-wise. With a rich tradition of grand, beautiful cinema, an ingrained wry sense of humor and a history that is tragic and eclectic,... More »
By Ard Vijn   
  

TIFF 2012 Review: NO ONE LIVES Would Be So Much Better If No One Spoke
What new stalk and slash move No One Lives does well: It gives Versus and Midnight Meat Train director Ryuhei Kitamura ample room to stage and execute a series of elaborate and gory kills.What it does poorly: Everything else.Luke Evans... More »
By Todd Brown   
  

TIFF 2012 Review: BWAKAW, Delightfully Unhurried Yet Meaningful Entertainment
Jun Lana started his career in film writing screenplays for directors Marilou Diaz-Abaya and Maryo J. de los Reyes, among others. In the several years where the country was starving for quality films, he penned films like Diaz-Abaya's Sa... More »
By Oggs Cruz   
  

TIFF 2012 Review: PAINLESS Finds Beauty In Horror
Pain is a useful teacher and when the children at the center of Juan Carlos Medina's Painless lack it the consequences are horrific. Fantasy tinged meditations on the Spanish Civil War and its consequences on the soul of a nation... More »
By Todd Brown   
  

TIFF 2012 Review: THE IMPOSSIBLE is a Little Bit Soggy
"Just close your eyes and think of something nice" is a refrain repeated several times during J.A. Bayona's Tsunami disaster film that sees Ewan McGregor and Naomi Watts (and their three children) attempt to re-unite after a tidal wave destroys... More »
  

TIFF 2012 Review: THE HUNT Searches for Provocation (and Finds it in an Unexpected Place)
There is no arguing the craft on display in Thomas Vinterberg's small-town, big-drama showcase The Hunt. Mads Mikkelsen turns in the performance of his career - and if you look back on his career so far, that is an impressive feat... More »
  

TIFF 2012 Review: ANTIVIRAL is Imaginative and Often Clever, But Not Mind-Blowing
As a stomach-churning, jet-black satire of modern culture, Brandon Cronenberg's Antiviral is a resounding success, and is directed with precision and conviction. However, for these very reasons, it's also cold, sterile and mostly void of humanity or even emotion.... More »
  

TIFF 2012 Review: TAI CHI 0 Respects The Past While Racing To The Future
Director Stephen Fung delivers a deliriously over the top reimagining of the life of martial artist Yang Luchuan - founder of the Yang school of tai chi - in the first part of his ambitious blockbuster franchise. Tai Chi 0... More »
By Todd Brown   
  

TIFF 2012 Review: STORM SURFERS 3D Hangs A Perfect 10

There have been plenty of arguments made about the merits of our current 3D cinematic boom. While much of the talk focuses on ticket prices and the gimmick factor, one common discourse is that the experience of watching a film... More »
  

TIFF 2012 Review: CLOUD ATLAS is Bold, Brash, Epic, and Silly
Bold, brash, epic, and silly, Cloud Atlas is the latest of a slew of big budget sci-fi epics that's likely to find far more detractors than fans of its quirky style.Drawn from a popular book many considered to be "unfilmable," the... More »
  

TIFF 2012 Review: EVERYBODY HAS A PLAN Offers A Double Dose Of Viggo
As if performing in a foreign language isn't enough of a challenge, Ana Piterbarg's Argentinian thriller Everybody Has A Plan features Viggo Mortensen playing not one but two roles entirely in Spanish. It's a casting choice from Piterbarg that -... More »
By Todd Brown   
  

TIFF 2012 Review: THE SAPPHIRES Sings and Dances Its Way Through War and Racial Tension
The Sapphires tells the true story of an all-Aborigine girl group -- known in some quarters as Australia's answer to The Supremes -- who toured Vietnam to entertain troops during the war under the management of a washed-out, Irish would-be... More »
  

TIFF 2012 Review: END OF WATCH, a Gritty, Realistic Police Story
If there's one filmmaker out there who is clearly and passionately interested in the psychology of modern police officers, it'd have to be screenwriter turned director David Ayer. Although his first release was the submarine thriller U-571, all of his... More »
  

TIFF 2012 Review: HOW TO MAKE MONEY SELLING DRUGS Reframes The Debate
Give writer-director Matthew Cooke full credit. Not only is he clearly smart enough to grasp and present the complicated, interconnected issues surrounding American drug laws, but he also has the good sense to know that if you are going to... More »
By Todd Brown   
  

TIFF 2012 Review: OUTRAGE BEYOND Brings Back the Violence
Any fan of Japanese Cinema from the last few decades knows: If there is a gun in your face, the last person you want to see on the other end is Takeshi Kitano (or rather his actor-ly persona Beat Takeshi).... More »
  

TIFF 2012 Review: THE MASTER, Brilliant, Confounding, and/or Terrible
You are going to look at me, and you're not going to blink. I'm going to tell you a series of things about this film, and if you blink, I'll have to start again.The Master is a hypnotic film. It's... More »
  

TIFF 2012 Review: 7 BOXES Are All Full of Genre Treats!
It's a hot day in the capital city of Paraguay and the exchange rate for US Dollars is running as high as the mercury in Asunción's bustling marketplace. Narrow rows of stalls glutted with people, consumer goods, and hanging animal... More »
  

TIFF 2012 Review: JOHN DIES AT THE END, An Initially Entertaining But Deeply Flawed Adaptation
David Wong can see things that other people can't. Strange things. Frightening things. Sometimes dead things and creatures from other dimensions. So can his friend John, with whom he has set up something of a cottage business eliminating supernatural pests.... More »
By Todd Brown   
  

TIFF 2012 Review: SIGHTSEERS Delivers Black Hearted Laughs
If there is one thing the English north has a great deal of, it is space. Space and rocks. Both of which are put to extensive use by Tina (Alice Lowe) and Chris (Steve Oram) as the new couple partakes... More »
By Todd Brown   
  

TIFF 2012 Review: REBELLE (War Witch) is Bloody and Compassionate
Let us start off by saying that Kim Nyugen's Rebelle, is easily the best Canadian war film ever produced.  I know, you say that there aren't many Canadian war films made outside of National Film Board documentaries and that big... More »
  
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