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October 2014

October 20, 2014

Gotham Episode 1.5 Recap: Viper

Does the show need fixing? Or is it good enough? Was Venom a step forward,...

October 19, 2014

Starring Adam West (Tooley, 2013)

The film is a work of love for both producers and for West’s family members,...

October 14, 2014

Gotham Episode 1.4 Recap: Arkham

As much as Gotham City is changing and the power players are making their plays,...

October 12, 2014

Still the Water (Kawase, 2014)

In a film filled with contrasts, finding quiet by traveling into the eye of the...

October 11, 2014

Rose McGowan’s Dawn and the Problem of Short Films

We get thirty minutes of commercials before the previews start at the cinema. Would it...

October 03, 2014

Hollidaysburg (Martemucci, 2014)

Hollidaysburg did make me want to see her competitor's film, so Martemucci did will by...

September 2014

September 25, 2014

The Thin Place #50: The Equalizer, King David, and Righteous Anger

Is it okay to hate the wicked? To celebrate their downfall? If so, when? And...

September 22, 2014

Masters of Sex Episode 2.11 Recap: One for the Money, Two for the Show

That we appear to be heading to a more conventional cliffhanger at season's end, is...

September 19, 2014

A Walk Among the Tombstones (Frank, 2014)

Frank has scripted another solid screenplay for a tense thriller with good pacing, a high...

September 16, 2014

Mudbloods (Nikbakht, 2014)

Credit needs to be given to director Farzad Nikbakht for presenting the sport, which the...

September 11, 2014

TIFF 2014 — Love & Mercy

I love art, including music. My life has been enriched by it. But I will...

September 11, 2014

Dolphin Tale 2 (Smith, 2014)

Okay, I admit that Dolphin Tale 2 is probably not the kind of movie I...

September 10, 2014

Video: TIFF 2014 — The Imitation Game

The Imitation Game can't decide if it wants to be about Alan Turing's life or...

September 07, 2014

TIFF 2014: The Sound and the Fury

Nearly everything in the lead up to The Sound and the Fury's (★★★) North American...

September 06, 2014

Video: TIFF 2014 Reviews — Gemma Bovery

An entertaining update on Madame Bovary, adapted from Posy Simmonds's graphic novel.

August 2014

August 31, 2014

Starred Up (Mackenzie, 2013)

The words "violent" or "gritty" and "prison drama" give me pause when used in the...

August 22, 2014

When the Game Stands Tall (Carter, 2014)

For all of the rightful emphasis placed on the way contemporary society pressures and damages...

August 11, 2014

Masters of Sex Episode 2.5 Recap: Giants

In Maier's work, that argument increasingly comes across as the way Masters sold the study...

August 06, 2014

Boyhood (Linklater, 2014)

Like a Wes Anderson film, but without all the twee.

August 01, 2014

Levitated Mass (Pray, 2013)

Levitated Mass is one of those delightful, obscure but unheralded documentaries that always seems to...

August 01, 2014

Get on Up (Taylor, 2014)

Even if, like me, you care little for Brown's music, there is still a lot...

July 2014

July 28, 2014

Clannad — The Motion Picture (Dezaki, 2007)

Clannad is an ambitious anime, touching on themes of friendship, family, grief, memory, and growing...

July 27, 2014

Revisiting Rohmer’s Six Moral Tales–Suzanne’s Career

For all of Rohmer's honesty about the emotional cowardice of (young) men, these films stop...

July 25, 2014

The Thin Place #48: Lucy–God or Godlike?

Lucy is a summer popcorn movie, to be sure. But when a movie has this...

July 23, 2014

Vera Drake (Leigh, 2004) — 10 Years Later

Vera Drake eschews argument, which I would normally say is a good thing, but what...

July 17, 2014

Revisiting Rohmer’s Six Moral Tales: The Bakery Girl of Monceau

"Why film a story when one can write it? Why write it when one is...

July 15, 2014

Cannibal (Cuenca, 2013)

Much as with George Sluizer's The Vanishing--another horrific film that I can't quite understand why...

July 10, 2014

Honour (Khan, 2014)

The United Nations estimated in 2000 that there are approximately 5,000 honor killings each year....

July 07, 2014

Persecuted (Lusko 2014)

While the opening ten minutes of the film certainly bring to light the great questions...

July 06, 2014

Masters of Sex — Three Ways the Showtime Series Surprised Me By Being Good

Showtime's serial adaptation of Thomas Maier's biography, Masters of Sex, launches its second season on...