Didn’t Reese Witherspoon recently win an Oscar? How come I can remember that and it seems as if she has forgotten it? Examples of the films she has done since her winning turn in Walk the Line inclu [ ... ]

Despite the fact that the two male leads add much to the film it ends up being an action film that follows along the usual twists and turns.  It was almost like watching director Daniel Espinosa (Swe [ ... ]

Going into this film I prepared myself for the inevitable.  It is a film about animals and worse than that, animals in trouble.  This had “I’m gonna cry” written all over it.  I battened down [ ... ]

Marilyn Monroe is such an iconic figure in the history of movies that it almost seems an impossible task to play her.  While there are some shaky moments, Michelle Williams comes as close as anyone I [ ... ]

We all know how great and revered an actress Meryl Streep is. Whatever she touches usually turns to gold. Streep’s performance as Britain’s first female Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher is gold th [ ... ]

Uncompromising is a word that can be used to describe the films of director Steve McQueen.  His first film Hunger was about Irish republican Bobby Sands who led inmates on a hunger strike in Northern [ ... ]

I’m a Kate Beckinsale fan. It’s been slim pickings over the past three years, though. It seems like she has just disappeared over the past couple of years without any film releases in the theatre. [ ... ]

Harry Potter and Twilight step aside as you are not the o­nly game in town.  All it takes is the return of Beauty and the Beast - this time in 3D for o­ne to realize that Disney reigns supreme in c [ ... ]

In the financial world 24 little hours can make a big difference.  Though this is fiction it is based on the most recent economic collapse the U.S. went through.  If this is in anyway close to the t [ ... ]

Why reinvent the wheel is what director Mike Mitchell (Shrek Forever After, Sky High) must have been telling himself going into the making of Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chip-Wrecked.  The previous two  [ ... ]

Some films have that old fashioned (and I don’t mean that in a bad way) feel to them.  They are like the films that the Disney would present and the whole family used to huddle around the televisio [ ... ]

Local filmmaker Anne Émond selected a very typical situation of a random hookup at a rave, which leads to a one-night stand as the set-up for her debut feature “Nuit #1.” But what makes this film [ ... ]

Light and frothy this is not.  Complex and dense is more accurate.  Political intrigue done in an unusual way.  Weird is the word that best sums up Pierre Schoeller’s film.  Weird, but absorbing [ ... ]

The much anticipated continuation of the Twilight series has finally arrived. Fans have been waiting to see Bella (Kristen Stewart) and Edward (Robert Pattinson) get married. But for those of you who  [ ... ]

At certain points while watching this film I wondered to myself if there were many other directors who could make the grotesque look so beautiful as Pedro Almodovar (Women on the Verge of Nervous Brea [ ... ]

Every hero has a back story even when that hero is an orange cat in leather boots.  It makes sense that Puss in Boots (Antonio Banderas) didn’t just appear when the story of his green ogre friend S [ ... ]

Lars von Trier (Dancer in the Dark, Breaking the Waves) is one of the more consistently creative directors today.  You will never be bored watching one of his films.  Whether it is because you are e [ ... ]

I went into this one with quite low expectations.  Dodgy director. Dodgy cast. Hmmm…not sure about this film. Ben Stiller seems to make the same film over and over and I have grown quite bored with [ ... ]

In 1982 director John Carpenter made a horror film that involved aliens that were able to change their form.  Basically shape-shifters causing a lot of death and mayhem. As is often the situation wit [ ... ]

Bollywood superstar Akshay Kumar was present at the last winter Olympics in Vancouver. Canada’s love for…or should I say “obsession” with hockey must have surely inspired him as he produced a  [ ... ]

Julien Temple (Earth Girls Are Easy, Absolute Beginners) brings his music film trilogy to a close with Oil City Confidential.  All three are about the important music people in the 1970s in the UK. T [ ... ]

More cerebral than your usual spy thriller is the latest John Madden (Shakespeare in Love, Proof) film. A story that flip flops between the 1960s and the 1990s.  Madden knows what the strength of his [ ... ]

Maybe it was all that fur and shirtlessness…I don’t know how I was fooled so badly.  In the Twilight film series while he was no Marlon Brando, werewolf Taylor Lautner did a decent job.  After s [ ... ]

A heist/action film does not at first glance seem like the type that Ryan Gosling (though he does have the abs to be an action star), Bryan Cranston (of Breaking Bad fame) and Carey Mulligan would be  [ ... ]

Contagion is a scary and compelling film.  Coming out of it I began to wonder if we should be putting our energies toward rooting out and stopping terrorists or towards contagious disease research. I [ ... ]

Hollywood and the rest of the filmmaking community seem to be really struggling with the romantic genre.  There seems to be a total lack of idea of how to present this format in a relevant or origina [ ... ]

ENOUGH WITH THE VAMPIRES!!!  There now I’ve said it, gotten it off my chest and can now return to my usual level headed, unbiased critic mode…hopefully… Finally in his senior year Charley (Ant [ ... ]

Sniff, sniff, this is the final adventure of the boy with the lightning bolt scar on his forehead named Harry Potter.  We have been through seven films filled with magic, humour, odd creatures, suspe [ ... ]

Kathryn Stockett’s first novel, The Help, was a huge success.  Published in 2009, it was the type of book that everyone who read it loved it so much that they recommended it to a friend and so on a [ ... ]

A father who is overly demanding, too much power, a drug habit, and the money to buy anything you want according to Lee Tamahori’s (Die Another Day, Molholland Falls) equals a crazed, degenerate per [ ... ]

Many scenes in this film, based on true events, are hard to watch.  But what is even more disturbing is the thought nagging at during it all that reality was probably even worse.  The abuse of power [ ... ]

Each year the famous Spanish chef Ferran Adria closes his restaurant El Bulli for six months in order to develop and prepare with his team the menu for the next year.  A demanding man, as most talent [ ... ]

A Canadian and Montreal shot film written and directed by Noel Mitrani (Sur la Trace d’Igor Rizzi) and starring Alexis Bledel formerly of television’s The Gilmore Girls. Kate Logan (Alexis Bledel [ ... ]

Why is it that all buddy films feature only two types of male leads – the responsible, married type and the usually unemployed man-child?  Surely there are other types of guys who become friends?  [ ... ]

Living in Strasbourg, teaching Baroque music at a university, being a single parent to his teenage daughter Irina (Lisa Cipriani), singing in a choir, doing volunteer reading for patients at a local h [ ... ]

The Wild West.  The 1900s.  Cowboys.  Frontier town.  Aliens.  Wait a minute!!  Aliens? What’s going on?  Does Jon Favreau (Iron Man, Elf) actually believe that we will swallow the idea of al [ ... ]

How fortunate are those who find a best friend to share the ups and downs of life with, especially a friendship that can endure a lifetime or maybe even an eternity. Such is the story of two young gir [ ... ]

When I first read about this film I was doubtful.  A movie about a man who is father to 533 kids.  Ridiculous!  I mean it sounded like something that Judd Apatow would be behind.  A ridiculous ide [ ... ]

A calculated, slow moving and character driven piece.  The kind of style that you generally associate with European films.  Not much of a story, but plenty of good acting.  In this part of the worl [ ... ]

Director Werner Herzog (Rescue Dawn, Grizzly Man) gained exclusive access to the Chauvet caves in France.  Inside the caves there are some of the oldest cave paintings done by man.  We get a look at [ ... ]