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Llewellyn Moss is in the sort of trouble you can't even imagine. Out hunting one morning he comes across several shot-up pickups, a half-dozen stiffs and a case full of cash. Bales of heroin in one pickup leave no doubt that the cash is off-limits, just… Continue reading
The Cormac McCarthy adaptation train is really rolling now. With the Coen Brothers’ No Country For Old Men one of the blazing highlights of recent film festivals (it topped the off the cuff Best Of lists of nearly everyone I talked to at Toronto last week,… Continue reading
I get no small amount of amusement from the fact that the latest films from Bela Tarr and the Coen Brothers share the same plot. It's a tribute to the infinite variability of storytelling and cinema that, despite a common narrative spine, the films couldn't… Continue reading
I'm really struggling with the fact that the lads behind VICE Magazine have created a film that is human, touching and fully divested of put-on scenester bullshit. Heavy Metal In Baghdad applies the magazine's DIY aesthetic to a story that is genuine,… Continue reading
You've probably heard wrong information about Diary Of The Dead, so let's do some bookkeeping. Yes, the film is George Romero's dramatized recreation of the outbreak of his zombie plague. No, it is not a Blair Witch clone. Instead, Romero has made a film that… Continue reading
As announced on Saturday, this was the winner of TIFF '07's People's Choice Award. Way to go, Canada! With Eastern Promises, David Cronenberg has made the most accessible film of his career. Applying long-standing interests in transformation and duality to… Continue reading
Day One | Day Two | Day Three | Day Four | Day FiveDay Six | Day Seven | Day Eight I finally hit a wall Thursday night. The tiny of the brain that allows me to write shut down with a clank and a hiss. The overheated system just wouldn't kickstart. And I tried… Continue reading
Neil Jordan's The Brave One positions Jodie Foster, finally, as the butch badass we've always known waited within her. He goes so far as to let us watch her transformation from a blithely happy woman in love to shattered gunslinger, and Foster, for her part,… Continue reading
Day One | Day Two | Day Three | Day Four | Day Five Day Six | Day Seven | Day Eight It's a great disappointment this year that I'm not getting to the midnight screenings. I've attended only one, the awful Frontiere(s) . (About which I successfully avoided… Continue reading
You've probably heard wrong information about Redacted, so let's do some bookkeeping. Yes, it's Brian De Palma's recreation of the rape and murder of a 15-year old Iraqi girl and the murder of her family. No, it is not made from documentary footage and other… Continue reading
Day One | Day Two | Day Three | Day Four | Day FiveDay Six | Day Seven | Day Eight I realized something today. I know that I've just walked into a really French film when (a) I'm the only one with a smart phone or ipod in the room and (b) the median …… Continue reading
Day One | Day Two | Day Three | Day Four | Day FiveDay Six | Day Seven | Day Eight Oh, I'm really sad that I missed the only press screening of Water Lilies today. I opened with Joy Division (I'll get there in a second) but would have chosen Water Lilies… Continue reading
