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Peter Jackson writes and produces this ambitious adaptation of Philip Reeve’s popular Post-apocalyptic steampunk novel, but the results leave a lot to be desired. Download the podcast Read More
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“Life will always be unpredictable and surprising” is the flimsy observation at the centre of writer-director Dan Fogelman’s self-important opus. Blissfully unaware of its own triteness, Life Itself examines the… Read More
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Lasse Hallström and Joe Johnston both try to make sense out of this poorly conceived adaptation of the classic E.T.A. Hoffmann short story and Tchaikovsky ballet. The results are occasionally… Read More
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Ah Thanksgiving, that quintessential American holiday when families are compelled to contend with the year’s harshest weather to make it home and engage in drunken arguments with their relatives. True… Read More
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J. K. Rowling delivers the second of her Potterverse prequels, upping the ante and layering on the allegory. But does it balance the light with the dark sufficiently for younger… Read More
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As if the horrors of war weren’t terrifying enough, producer J.J. Abrams pits a squad of inexperienced second world war paratroopers against a cadre of Nazi scientists and their mutant… Read More
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Denis Villeneuve’s Sicario was one of my favourite films of 2015. The sequel does without many of the key players, most notably Emily Blunt, Roger Deakins and Villeneuve, but remembers… Read More
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It’s Gerard Butler on a submarine…what more do you need to know? (at 31:44) Read More
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In 1978, John Carpenter first unleashed the faceless killer Michael Myers on an unsuspecting population of precocious teenagers, giving rise to the slasher genre and changing the horror landscape forever.… Read More
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Bradley Cooper reveals himself to be a more than competent musician and an excellent director in this reimagining of the classic narrative, as a washed-up rock star who discovers the… Read More
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Pretty, precocious teens meet their grisly end at a Halloween themed theme park in this derivative and occasionally nasty slasher. (at 11:30) Read More
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John Cho becomes the first Asian American actor ever to headline a mainstream Hollywood thriller in Aneesh Chaganty’s inventive webcam drama about a father searching for his missing daughter. Read More
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Damien Chazelle follows up his best director Oscar win for La La Land with a thrilling re-enactment of mankind’s giant leap. Ryan Gosling is perfectly cast as Neil Armstrong, the… Read More
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14 years after his Palme D’Or winning Fahrenheit 9/11, documentarian Michael Moore seizes the opportunity to conveniently flip his title and train his satirical eye on American politics once again.… Read More
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Tom Hardy gets his beak wet in the superhero genre once more, as journalist Eddie Brock who becomes infected by a nasty alien symbiote that morphs him into a Jeckyll… Read More
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Julianne Moore’s involvement in a project is normally as reliable a validation of quality filmmaking as one could hope for. But in the case of Bel Canto, Paul Weitz’s adaptation… Read More
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It has been 31 years since the predator first landed on Earth to pick a fight with Arnold Schwarzenegger. Four wildly inferior sequels later, it falls to writer-director Shane Black… Read More
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After discovering an out-of-this-world weapon, a teenage boy finds himself on the run with his ex-con brother and a stripper from the authorities, a vicious gangster and some otherworldly enforcers.… Read More
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