THE BIJOU REVIEW: “Puncture”
Our Review / 5 - Terrible
Our Review / 5 - Terrible
THE SKED REVIEW: “Behind the Candelabra”
We’re gradually discovering that Steven Soderbergh’s definition of “retirement” from filmmaking is a fairly narrow one. It was recently announced that he plans to direct a new series for Cinemax...
THE SKED SEASON FINALE REVIEW: “Da Vinci’s Demons”
Starz’s DA VINCI’S DEMONS was unsatisfactory in just about every respect, all the way through to tonight’s Season 1 finale, a cluster of cliffhangers that resolved almost nothing. Watching the end of ...
TORONTO FILM FESTIVAL REVIEW: “Tracks”
There’s no cutesiness to be found in John Curran’s film TRACKS, a bracingly non-Disneyfied true-life nature tale. In the mid-1970s, a young Australian woman named Robyn Davidson decided to walk across almo...
TORONTO FILM FESTIVAL REVIEW: “Rush”
The writer Peter Morgan is a whiz at boring into little-remembered (and in the US, sometimes little-known) crannies of recent history and scooping out the rich drama inside, with scripts like The Deal, Frost/Nixon and Th...