Neill Blomkamp follows up his acclaimed debut film District 9 will the sci-fi/action film Elysium. The film takes place in the year 2154, at which time the Earth has become practically unliveable, due to pollution and overpopulation. In response to this, the Earth’s wealthy decided to leave the planet and relocate to the space station…
Steven Soderbergh’s Liberace biopic Behind the Candelabra is notable for two things. First, the film has been heavily hyped as being Soderbergh’s final film as a director. It remains to be seen whether this truly will be his final film or if Soderbergh will merely end up taking a sabbatical for a few years. The…
You may not know Craig “Radioman” Castaldo by his name, but I am almost certain that you have seen the guy. Radioman is known for appearing at the film sets around New York City, always with his bike and trusty radio. Often this results in him getting a brief cameo role in the production. In…
I initially missed Contagion when it was released a month ago, since it conflicted with the Toronto Film Festival. However, I managed have some free time today, so I finally checked it out. In this film, an American woman (Gwyneth Paltrow) is infected with a new type of virus while on a trip to Hong Kong….
The Adjustment Bureau is the latest of many films based on a story by science fiction author Philip K. Dick. The film is about a young politician, who accidently finds out that all of humanity’s path through life are controlled by a group of fedora-wearing agents that will go to any extreme to make sure that…
Being both a film fan and a documentary fan, I love it when there are documentaries about films. Unauthorized: The Harvey Weinstein Project just opened today for a run at the Bell Lightbox and it’s a, Canadian-produced, documentary about the infamous Hollywood figure Harvey Weinstein. As the title suggests, the film wasn’t made with Weinstein’s full…
I’m not too familiar with the original 1969 film, other than the fact that it won John Wayne his only Oscar. However, for this version, the Coen Brothers decided to use more to the original book, than the film, so this can be seen more as a readaptation than a remake. The film is more…
I never really knew too much about the latest film by Clint Eastwood other than it featured Matt Damon as someone who can communicate with the dead. It turns out that this is only one of three stories that the film tells, all of which are joined by the theme of death. I personally thought…
Invictus tells the story of how Nelson Mandela attempted to bring together a divided South Africa by supporting the South African rugby team on their journey to win the Rugby World Cup. The film works both as a drama about post-apartheid South Africa as well as an inspirational sports movie. It could be hard to…
This film is the latest in the “summer of threequels.” However, unlike the other “threequels” I never really saw the previous two films in theatres (I only saw them of video and/or TV in the last year — I now regret not seeing them in theatres). However, I do say that seeing the previous films…
