The Assessment TIFF 2024

The Assessment – TIFF 2024

A couple undergo a weeklong series of tests that decides if they are appropriate to have a child in The Assessment. In a dystopian future with heavy population control, married couple Mia (Elizabeth Olsen) and Aaryan (Himesh Patel) have applied for a weeklong assessment to decide if they can become parents. They are greeted by their…

Captain America: Civil War

Captain America: Civil War

The Avengers find themselves divided in Captain America: Civil War. With the actions of The Avengers often ending in mass collateral damage, the United Nations decides to introduce an accord to keep these heroes’ actions in check. While Tony Stark (Robert Downey, Jr) is all in favour of the accord, Steve Rogers (Chris Evans) doesn’t…

Avengers: Age of Ultron

Avengers: Age of Ultron

The team of Marvel superheroes reunite to face a new threat in Avengers: Age of Ultron.  The Avengers raid a Hydra base in Eastern Europe and recover the scepter previously held by Loki.  Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) finds that the staff has the capability to create artificial intelligence and he uses it to complete…

Godzilla (2014)

Godzilla (2014)

Following his 2010 debut feature Monsters, director Gareth Edwards moves on to the greatest monster of all, with this new reboot of Godzilla.  Following the meltdown of the Janjira Nuclear Plant near Tokyo, plant supervisor Joe Brody (Bryan Cranston) becomes paranoid that the meltdown was created by something other than an earthquake, as claimed by…

Red Lights

Red Lights

Red Lights is director Rodrigo Cortés’ follow-up to his 2010 film Buried.  The film follows psychologist Margaret Matheson (Sigourney Weaver) and her assistant Tom (Cillian Murphy) as they venture out to debunk psychics using their scientific explanations.  A blind psychic named Simon Silver (Robert De Niro) decides to come out of retirement and all signs to see to point…

Silent House

Silent House

Silent House is a horror film that is presented as one continuous shot.  I’ll say now that this was probably one of the most effective elements of the film.  The film flows seamlessly and you almost forget at times that it’s a non-stop shot (though I managed to spot a couple of the invisible cuts)….