By Darlene Seto
Perhaps it wasn’t Alice who fell down the rabbit hole to Wonderland, but the human species as a whole. Has it ever occurred to anyone whether or not our experiences are actually true and if ‘reality’ is only a construct of our minds? How do know what reality is when all we have to depend… Continue reading Movie Review: What the Bleep Do We Know? apparently knows a lot
This is the time when people find themselves up to their necks in the nonsense of the American political system. We tuned in to the political debate to see the f-bomb dropped, but were sadly disappointed when Kerry and Bush delivered the same ol’ cordial pre-programmed responses bouncing them back and forth like that dot-thing… Continue reading Movie Preview: Terrorist fear Team America: World Police
By Emily Baum
We’re not talking about the best action of you life, or your friends’ sister, we’re talking about Warner Independent Pictures new film Criminal. Now that you’re paying attention, let’s talk about the movie. A remake of the Spanish movie Nine Queens, Criminal in boasts a critically acclaimed cast with the likes of John C. Reilly… Continue reading Movie Review: Criminal-ly good
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
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
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
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
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
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
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