Movies

  It will come as no surprise to anyone that movies often significantly depart from the books upon which they are based. That doesn’t necessarily mean they are a diminished form of the story; simply different. Some authors, however such as J. D. Salinger and Roald Dahl, most certainly thought the movie adaptations Continue Reading

  Food, water and shelter aside, one of the most basic needs a person can have is the one to belong. Whether we are conscious of it or not, or even admit to its existence,  all of us are looking for a group of likeminded people we can call family, Continue Reading

  I have no doubt that the upcoming Jurassic World film, which features Chris Pratt as velociraptor-wrangling, Indian Jones-arua emitting, dinosaur DNA-fiddling averse hero-in-the-making Owen Grady will be a tour deforce of edge-of-your-seat prehistoric thrill-making. And I am also fully convinced that the dinosaurs that will fill the film, from said Continue Reading

  SNAPSHOT In Maxime Giroux’s latest feature, an unusual romance blos­soms between two lost souls who inhabit the same neigh­bourhood but vastly different worlds. Meira (Hadas Yaron) is a young Hasidic Jewish mother in Montreal’s Mile End dis­trict who secretly rebels against her faith by listening to soul music and Continue Reading

  The clock is ticking, ticking loud and fast in J. C. Chandor’s slow-burning tale of one man’s pursuit of the American Dream, A Most Violent Year. It is 1981, statistically one of the most violent in New York’s history, and aspiring businessman, Abel Morales (Oscar Isaac) is intent on Continue Reading

  Anyone who has ever experienced any form of profound loss will know all too well that grief is a peculiar, never ending lament with a thousand different reminders everywhere you turn. The truth of this painful reality is authentically conveyed in starkly moving, intimate terms in Hong Khaou’s largely assured Continue Reading

  If you’ve even so much as vaguely read any of Enid Blyton’s Famous Five novels or perused an old and tattered copy of Boys’ Own magazine, you might be tempted to think that life for young boys is a gripping mash-up of dodging buffoonish anti-heroes, getting into trouble that resolves Continue Reading

  History is a crowded place, littered more often than not with recurrent and egregious examples of man’s inhumanity to man. But it is also, thankfully, marked by the brave examples of men and women, in great numbers and starkly alone, who, rather than remain complicit in a system that Continue Reading

  SNAPSHOT “Legendary Pictures’ Crimson Peak, a co-production with Universal Pictures, is a haunting gothic horror story directed by the master of dark fairy tales, Guillermo del Toro (Pan’s Labyrinth, Hellboy series, Pacific Rim), written by del Toro and Matthew Robbins and starring Mia Wasikowska, Jessica Chastain, Tom Hiddleston and Continue Reading