A cantankerous professor at a boarding school is left to watch those left behind during the Christmas holidays in The Holdovers. Paul Hunham (Paul Giamatti) is one of the longest-tenured professors at the Barton Boarding School. As punishment for his strict methods, Paul must stay behind during the 1971 Christmas holidays to look after the…
The west coast of the United States is decimated by a large magnitude earthquake in San Andreas. Ray (Dwayne Johnson) is a rescue-chopper pilot, who is in the middle of a divorce with his wife Emma (Carla Gugino) and tries to maintain a close relationship with his daughter Blake (Alexandra Daddario), who is about to head…
The cinematic reboot of everyone’s favourite wisecracking webslinger continues with The Amazing Spider-Man 2. Peter Parker (Andrew Garfield) continues to search for the answer about his parents, while his dangerous crime-fighting life as Spider-Man makes him concerned about the safety of his girlfriend Gwen Stacey (Emma Stone). Meanwhile, Peter’s childhood best friend Harry Osborn (Dane…
I don’t often watch films multiple times in the cinema. In fact, I can probably still count the number of times I’ve done so on one hand. However, there are some films that I feel obliged to give another go around. One such film is John Dies at the End, which I “saw” when it…
To say that John Dies at the End is a weird film would be a bit of an understatement. The film focuses on a man named David Wong (Chase Williamson), who sits in a restaurant and tells his story to a journalist named Arnie (Paul Giamatti). It’s a hard movie to describe, but in essence, Dave and…
Outside of a New York City building (that looks remarkably like Toronto’s Union Station), 28-year-old billionaire Eric Packer (Robert Pattinson) decides that he wants to get a haircut on the other side of town. His bodyguard Torval (Kevin Durand, doing his best Christopher Walken impression) advises against this, because the visiting U.S. President will make traffic…
There isn’t really too much to the story of The Ides of March, which is very by-the-book political drama. Essentially the film follows an idealist staff member (Ryan Gosling) of a potential presidential candidate (George Clooney), who is slowly corrupted by all the backroom backstabbing that happens in the political world. The cast of the…
One thing that can be said about The Hangover Part II is that the plot structure is nearly 100% the same as the original. This isn’t the first sequel to follow the “if it’s not broke, don’t fix it” route, but it still does make the film a little more predictable than the first. However, I…
