Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow has used the most modern of technology to create a futuristic past from past visions of the future. Certainly not the most straightforward of descriptions, owing mostly to the English language’s insufficient number of verb tenses, but it’s clearly what director/writer/computer animator Kerry Conran was aiming for. He’s… Continue reading Movie Review: Sky Captain a blast from the past
Month: September 2004
Movie Review: More than love for Wimbledon
From the producers of Bridget Jones’ Diary, Love Actually, Johnny English and Shaun of the Dead, comes the new romantic comedy Wimbledon. So it’s not surprising the movie comes off like Bridget Jones on espn. Peter Colt (Paul Bettany) is the least likely candidate to win Wimbledon. Lizzie Bradbury (Kirsten Dunst) is America’s John McEnroe… Continue reading Movie Review: More than love for Wimbledon
Of the Fields, Lately could use a trim
By Darlene Seto
Ever felt your emotions spiraling out of control-laughing one minute, but crying the next? Of the Fields, Lately, this season’s first offering by Theatre Calgary takes its audience on such a journey of incongruity, jumping from scenes of intense drama to inane humor within a blink of an eye. Written by one of Canada’s premier… Continue reading Of the Fields, Lately could use a trim
Toasters in the ska oven
Throughout the history of music numerous bands have made their impact on the music industry by creating a new style of music. Rarely are people fortunate enough to witness these movements begin, never mind watching these bands before they become cannon. All people are left with are those “important” albums. When ska was reformed in… Continue reading Toasters in the ska oven
FilmFest Review: Investigations Into the Invisible World
Ambient music group Sigur Ros aren’t all that normal. They sing in a made-up language and occasionally refuse to title their songs. Bjork is undoubtedly strange. It’s actually pretty difficult to come up with some aspect of her personality that could be called normal. After seeing Jean-Michel Roux’s documentary Investigations Into the Invisible World, a… Continue reading FilmFest Review: Investigations Into the Invisible World
FilmFest Review: Savage Island
Savage Island has won best horror film in at least two film festivals. It has also been rejected by the Vancouver and Toronto film fests, making Calgary its Canadian premiere. Looks like Vancouver and Toronto did the right thing in passing on this one. Shot on low-grade digital video, Savage Island doesn’t wear its limited… Continue reading FilmFest Review: Savage Island
FilmFest Review: American Short Films
Harlem’s low budget aerospace program, the intrigue of low-budget filmmaking, and the cold-blooded murder of John Stamos provide the highlights in this imaginative collection of shorts. As with any assemblage of shorts, some are stronger than others, but the good easily outway the bad in the first set of American shorts at the ciff.The top… Continue reading FilmFest Review: American Short Films
Movie Review: Nothing
By Ben Hoffman
Canadian director Vincenzo Natali of Cube fame has brought us another surreal existential displacement flick in the delightfully engaging Nothing. Made by Natali in 2003, casts David Hewlett and Andrew Miller as best friends in the midst of a twisted and unrelenting urban Toronto. The two live together as childhood-friends-turned-roommates in a tiny house sandwiched… Continue reading Movie Review: Nothing
FilmFest Review: Dead and Breakfast
Zombie movie fans have had a stretch of good luck lately. Resident Evil’s had some mixed reactions, but Shaun of the Dead received near unanimous praise. Now if Dead and Breakfast gets any sort of wide release, there’ll be another slab of brain-eating goodness for fans of the recently deceased.There are two main reasons Dead… Continue reading FilmFest Review: Dead and Breakfast
Filmfest: After The Apocalypse is devestatingly good
By Kyle Francis
As the old saying goes: A picture is worth a thousand words. This couldn’t be truer than with director Yasuaki Nakajima’s first feature length film, After the Apocalypse, a post apocalyptic drama where all of the people left alive after World War Three have lost the ability to speak. Dialogue, in the minds of many,… Continue reading Filmfest: After The Apocalypse is devestatingly good