Chaplin: 15th Anniversary Edition
October 17, 2008
Adapted from My Autobiography by Charles Chaplin and Chaplin: His Life and Art by David Robinson, Chaplin (1992) was a prestigious, big budget biopic about the life of legendary English comedian Charles Chaplin. While the film was criticized for taking...
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull: 2-Disc Special Edition
October 17, 2008
It was with equal parts anticipation and trepidation that fans of the Indiana Jones films greeted news that a new installment entitled, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008) was in the works. Would Harrison Ford be too old and look...
Deception
October 17, 2008
How can a film starring three marquee names like Ewan McGregor, Hugh Jackman and Michelle Williams get an extremely limited theatrical release with very little publicity? Collectively, they have appeared in some serious moneymakers: McGregor with the...
The Happening
October 16, 2008
In retrospect, M. Night Shyamalan peaked with The Sixth Sense (1999), a film that was a massive critical and commercial success. Naturally, it would be the yardstick that every subsequent film he made would be judged by. To Shyamalan’s credit, he tried...
La Ronde: Criterion Collection
October 15, 2008
Vienna, 1900 and the author of La Ronde (1950) appears on a stage with a fake backdrop of the city, addressing the audience. He walks past the set and begins to establish the story and the two main characters: Leocadie (Signoret), the prostitute, and...
27 Dresses
September 13, 2008
The New York Times recently ran an article about the current state of the chick flick. It cited The Devil Wears Prada (2006) as the most commercially successful film of the genre and suggested that less women were going to these films than before. And...
Code Monkeys: Season 1
September 12, 2008
Code Monkeys is a television show for anyone who owned a Commodore 64 personal computer or played Pac Man for hours. It’s a show for people who can remember seeing Tron or E.T. in theaters back in 1982 and yet with a nod to contemporary gross-out humour....
The Nightmare Before Christmas: 2-Disc Collector’s Edition
August 26, 2008
When The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) debuted in theatres, it was a modest commercial success but hardly the massive hit Disney had hoped for, especially with the pedigree of Tim Burton’s name above the title. It was well-received by critics who...
Son of Rambow
August 25, 2008
The things we see at an impressionable young age, be they films, television programs, books or music, leave a lasting impact on us because we haven’t had many life experiences up to that point in our lives. So, those formative experiences tend to leave...
Mon oncle Antoine
August 20, 2008
For the last 25 years, Claude Jutra’s Mon oncle Antoine (1971) has been regarded as the “best Canadian film ever made” by film scholars, critics and directors. His film is a classic coming-of-age story set in rural Quebec during the 1940s. Jutra...
