One inevitably recurring theme in the many films you get see at festivals like VIFF is how the world isn’t going to give you the answers to life’s hard questions. It is often that the filmmakers must make meaning of…
Supernatural 14×01 Review: “Stranger in a Strange Land” Finds a New Way to Tell the Same Story
Supernatural is no stranger to missing brothers or kidnapped friends. Hell, it’s done angel possession before. At one point, Sam is even kidnapped by an angel possessing him during the mid-season stretch of season nine. So it’s not like we’re…
Ten Things We Can’t Wait to See in the Movie Adaptation of Patrick Ness’s ‘The Knife of Never Letting Go’
We’ve partnered with Candlewick to celebrate the reissue of Patrick Ness’s best-selling novel, The Knife of Never Letting Go. This award-winning book is celebrating its 10th anniversary and if you haven’t picked it up yet, we recommend checking it out…
3 Faces Movie Review | VIFF 2018
Jafar Pahani’s 3 Faces escapes the confines of the director’s home (This Is Not a Film) and even Tehran (Taxi) as the recording of a young girl’s apparent suicide spurs him, and celebrated Iranian actress Behnaz Jafari, to take a odyssey…
First Man Movie Review: Neil Armstrong’s Story Gets A Big Blistering Biopic
There was a time when going to the moon was considered the scariest thing a human could possibly do. Despite the wonder surrounding the first men to land on another planet, the build-up to that moment was full of death,…
‘Beautiful Boy’ Review: Timothée Chalamet Astonishes in Painful, Messy and True Story About Addiction
Early in Felix Van Groeningen’s Beautiful Boy, based on the best selling novels by David and Nic Sheff, David (Steve Carrell) is told that relapse is to be expected in addiction recovery – even thought of as one of the…
Shoplifters is the Latest Emotional Sucker-Punch from Japanese Maestro Hirokazu Kore-eda | NYFF 2018
In a ramshackle house in a Tokyo suburb, there lives an impoverished family who steal to survive. The bulk of their finances comes from the pension of grandma Hatsue’s (Kirin Kiki) dead ex-husband, a pittance of ¥60,000 ($527.69) a month—plus…