COLLECTED VIEWS

What little marketing I saw for this film pegged it as yet another generic horror flick. Maybe a haunted house, some monsters, something ...

There are some good “vignette” movies, Jarmusch’s Coffee and Cigarettes (2003) and Night on Earth (1991) come to mind, but unfortunately ...

Other than the name and J.J. Abrams’ magic touch, I’m not sure what this has to do with the original Cloverfield (2008). There is a brief...

If your idea of a great documentary is having the real-life mass murdering protagonist singing about peace in front of a waterfall with s...

I sooo wish that this would have gotten the 'The Social Network' treatment. I wholeheartedly believe that even with someone like ...

It's not the latest Shaun of the Dead or Zombieland, but it does the trick in terms of fresh rotting zombie fare "with a twist...

Heralded as the new breakout film of 2012, both for its director and its child starlet, Beasts boasts characters, acting, location and a ...

The Master is one of those films that I wanted to see ever since Joaquin Phoenix became sane again (although judging from his performance...

It seems like Mark Wahlberg has been slowly building himself a career that involves him being typecast into the role of the down-on-his-l...

Trying to navigate through the hype and fanboyhood that surrounded this juggernaut, I opted for the 24fps 3D version of the film. Reading...

the 23rd James Bond film is Sam Mendes’ 6th feature. In a career that started with American Beauty, it is hard to surpass oneself, especi...

This looks like something that came about when RZA thought to himself one day - hey, I like Kung-Fu movies and I got money and friends in...

I absolutely love this film. I am a fan of In Bruges, so I was delighted to hear that McDonagh took a break from playwriting and wrote/di...

in their second “serious” directorial effort after the matrix (i’m purposely not counting “speed racer”), the Wachowski’s team up with To...

I wasn’t expecting too much from this, after having seen the trailer. It was basically a collection of wide-rimmed glasses and moustach...

I think this is one of those films that I wanted to like, and while there is nothing terribly wrong with it (actually I did enjoy the vi...

Iron Sky has been germinating somewhere in the bowels of the internet since 2008 when the production company put out their teaser trailer...

So Hollywood tries to tackle the issue of '60s south segregation, yet again, and yet again only gives us a glossy, inspiring, positiv...

So here is something that seems like it was market-researched to jerk those tears. Little boy with social anxiety or maybe Asperger's...

Almodóvar’s latest sexy Spanish romp is pushing his usual motifs more towards the horror genre, but like he claims, this is "a horro...

Tomas Alfredson’s second feature, after 2008’s Let the Right One In (original Swedish version) is a much more ambitious and “serious” fil...

The artist is yet another one of those films that dabbles in black and white and tries pushing the envelope even further back into Hollyw...

Actually? not bad. Great effects and action, great editing and direction (from, surprisingly, Brad Bird, who directed things like The Incre...

In a film where the baseline for normalcy is the mother catching the young son watching one of the pornos his dad starred in and lovingly...

Daniel Radcliffe is a poor orphan who goes to magical magic school that you can only get to from an imaginary train station on the London...

Here is something that was filmed for $500k, a budget that’s under even that for an episode of a show on HBO, but that nevertheless manag...

Another great political drama that aims to ‘expose’ the delicate balance between ideology and the struggle for power, that old Machiavell...

Absolutely brilliant! With its quietly calculated and mysterious Ryan Gosling (who is taking a break from being the heartthrob du jour, b...

Here is what is an essentially coming-of-age/loss-of-innocence formula, that Malick attempts to turn into something bigger than it really i...

With perhaps one of Von Trier's largest cast of feature actors including Kirsten Dunst, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Kiefer Sutherland, Alexand...

The X-Men get the swingin’ 60’s treatment, complete with miniskirts and Cuban missile crisis. Like those old bond movies (from which it borr...

Not sure what the target audience for this film is. The English lit name dropping would probably confuse the average rom-com goer, and the r...

The prequel series reboot by novice director Rupert Wyatt meets expectations. it has all the winks to the original series that the fans migh...

Hollywood’s latest Exorcist clone, featuring Anthony Hopkins in the elderly priest role, supposedly replacing Max von Sydow’s role from the...

The latest J.J Abrams lense-flare simulator is finally here and it has the added benefit of raping our childhood with pseudo-Spielberg nosta...

Serving as a sort of filler between last year’s Iron Man 2 (2010) and July’s Captain America (and 2012’s The Avengers), Thor isn't reall...

Iñárritu does Bardem. You’d figure the result would be good, but it’s not. It’s a messy, depressive and agonizing ride that never ends or go...

Atwood’s award-winning novel by the same name is apparently a standard required reading in Canadian high schools. Having gone to french hig...

Jason Eisner's fake-grindhouse-trailer-turned-feature-length gore-a-palooza's main strength lies in the fact that unlike Machete, Pl...

Girl Interrupted meets Moulin Rouge/Chicago/Burlesque meets Project A-ko, meets Dead Snow meets Lord of the Rings meets Casshern . I think t...

Charming! I loved Helande-directed shorts that proceeded it (look for them on youtube), and I was delighted to learn that a 3rd, feature-len...

I don't buy the whole 'it was only a hoax' thing. I think the guy is still off his rocker, calling it a hoax was the only way he...

Brilliant! Be it a hoax or not, 'Exit Through The Gift Shop' is at once entertaining, fascinating, insightful and a poignant comment...

funny, heartwarming and charming. a very simple story that at times gets a bit clichée but overall executed almost to perfection. makes it f...

Isao Takahata's second feature at Studio Ghibli, despite being a light nostalgic drama about growing up and one woman's introspectio...