[With Rob Stefaniuk's Suck screening at SXSW now seems a good time to revisit my review from the film's world premiere in Toronto.]Joey has a problem.  His band, The Winners, is on the verge of making it big.  This...

Although the 34th Hong Kong International Film Festival doesn't officially get under way until Sunday, press screenings have begun and yesterday I got the chance to see Gaspar Noe's latest piece of shock & awe Cinema. Gapsar Noe makes Lars... More >>

Marco Ferreri's 1969 film Dillinger is Dead is now out on DVD from The Criterion Collection. Ferreri's film is an exercise in pop art surrealism that captures the aesthetic and political zeitgeist of the 60s. Connoisseurs of avant-garde cinema will...

Though I will need to double check my notes for the past few months before saying this definitively, Jorge Michel Grau's debut feature Somos Lo Que Hay may just be the best film I have seen all year. This is...

[With Shane Meadows' Le Donknow seems a good time to re-post our earlier review of the film.] about to screen at SXSW 2010 - and having just screened as part of Canadian Music Week - Roadie. Washout. Reluctant father. Meet...

Gut-twisting and soul-troubling, Simon Rumley's latest film fires a stun gun into the heart of horror. For every convention that is honored, another is upended and a third is smashed to pieces. Red White & Blue amply demonstrates Rumley's continuing...

It is the late 1800s: two hooded horseback riders square off in a race across the Welsh countryside. The incident concludes in both tragedy and suspicion, and, in part, incites the surviving rider to emigrate from Wales to Patagonia,...

[Our thanks to Serdar Kökçeoğlu for the following review.]Mustafa Kemal Atatürk was the founder of the Turkish Republic and as such, continues to be a delicate subject for the Turkish government and the wider society. The tales of Atatürk's...

There is a part of me that feels sorry for Srdjan Spasojevic. He has, you see, just created a debut film that will linger in infamy. No matter what lies in the future for Spasojevic he will always be...

Things have gone rather quiet around director Sogo Ishii. His latest film dates from 2005 and didn't exactly enjoy a broad release (still eagerly waiting for the DVD myself). A terrible shame, though it does give one the chance to...

[With the film screening at SXSW we now re-post Andrew Mack's previous review of Taqwacore.]'When he was 17, Michael Knight left his mother's home in Rochester to study Islam at a Pakistani madrassa. It was his first act of... More >>

Languid and dreamy, MONSTERS is not your average alien invasion movie. Director Gareth Edwards, who dreamed up the story and created all the visual effects on his laptop, says that he wanted to begin where every other monster movie ends....

[With Sean Byrne's The Loved Ones screening at SXSW we now re-post our review from the film's world premiere in Toronto.]Though a touch prone to melodrama and inclined to overindulge its teen-angst metaphor, Sean Byrne's The Loved Ones is, nonetheless,... More >>

[With Simon Rumley's Red, White and Blue having it's North American premiere at SXSW we now re-post our review from the world premiere in Rotterdam.]It could be hard to sell people on Simon Rumley's Red, White & Blue. It...

[With action-horror Higanjima having it's North American debut, we now re-post our previous review.]Akira is a boy with issues.  Yes, this could be said about virtually any high schooler and while it is true of Akira for the typical...

[With Jean-Pierre Jeunet's Micmacs screening as part of SXSW 2010 we now re-post our review of the film from it's debut in Toronto.]Disappointing not because it's horrible - which it very definitely is not - but because it's lazy,...

[With Amer screening as part of SXSW 2010 we now re-post my review from the film's premiere in Sitges.]When dipping in to a long abandoned style, adopting a language and syntax of film distinct to a particular era, a...

[With Canadian documentary Reel Injun having its US premiere at SXSW 2010 we now re-post the review we initially ran at the world premiere in Toronto.]Neil Diamond's Reel Injun accomplishes one truly remarkable feat.  The documentarian, himself a native from...

Meet Mark Hogancamp.  In April of 2000, Mark was attacked outside a bar in New York State and literally beaten to death by a group of five men.  Though Mark would be revived by paramedics he would spend nine...

[With Lixin Fan's Last Train Home screening as part of SXSW we now re-post the review we ran at the Sundance premiere.]Holidays: a time for family. As true as this may be in Western culture with Thanksgiving and Christmas...

KICK ASS does. At its most elemental level, it's tremendously exciting to see a superhero flick that embraces unadulterated bloodshed and violence while promoting the idea that deranged destruction can happily co-exist with responsible hero-hood. It's a movie that gleefully...

Shot through with flashes of outright brilliance, Colm McCarthy's Outcast is a film that never quite figures out what it wants to be. Is this the story of Fergal, the roving Irish teen of unusual parentage struggling to hold...

[With the new White Stripes documentary having its US premiere at SXSW we now re-post our review of the film from its debut in Toronto.]In 2007, to celebrate their tenth anniversary as a band, Jack and Meg White packed...

[With Dagur Kari's The Good Heart screening as part of SXSW 2010 we now re-post our review of the film which originally ran when the film premiered in Toronto.]On this, the first day of the 2009 Toronto International Film...

[With horror comedy Tucker and Dale Versus Evil screening at SXSW we now re-post our earlier review by Ryland Aldrich from Sundance 2010.]Hands down one of the funniest movies at Sundance, Tucker & Dale vs Evil is a smart...

[With Greek festival hit Dogtooth screening at SXSW we now re-post our review of the film that ran at the film's appearance in Rotterdam.]   Giorgos Lanthimos' Dogtooth certainly doesn't lack for ambition. A father, pathologically opposed to the moral...

[With pan-Nordic thriller The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo screening at SXSW we now re-post our earlier review from the film's appearance in Leeds.]Yes, it comes with baggage. How could it not? In one sense Swedish author Stieg Larsson...

Recent years have seen a wave of films dealing with underground Islamic youth culture. Joining this group is Bahman Ghobadi's No One Knows About Persian Cats. Based on the lives of real people, Persian Cats is an inspiring, heartbreaking journey...

Meredith Danluck's The Ride, the latest production from Vice Films, captures the spectacle of modern bull riding while revealing a slice of small town Americana that is quickly fading away. Bull riding was once the exclusive domain of rodeos. Now, busting...

Together with The Lovely Bones and Gilliam's Imaginarium, Burton's Alice In Wonderland is one of the recent high profile films that submerges itself into an elaborately constructed fantasy world. The tale of Alice in Wonderland isn't exactly original material, but...