TIFF09 RECAP: Connecting to Your World … and mine
Every year at the Toronto International Film Festival seems to get better and better. Is that due to the increase in films from six to eleven to fifteen? It very well might be. And I’ll just say now,...
View ArticleTIFF11 REVIEW: The Hunter [2011]
“GO HOME GREENIE” The Australian takeover in cineplexes worldwide continues at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2011. With more and more work finding distribution to travel off the island,...
View ArticleTIFF11 INTERVIEW: Willem Dafoe (actor) and Daniel Nettheim (director), of The...
On press duty for their new film The Hunter at the Toronto International Film Festival, director Daniel Nettheim and Willem Dafoe have been discussing Tasmania, Julia Leigh’s source material, and their...
View ArticleREVIEW: Jurassic Park [1993]
“Spared no expense” Dinosaurs have captivated us for centuries—their bones dug up and reassembled in museums and theories about whether they’re descendants of reptiles or birds ebbing and flowing with...
View ArticleREVIEW: The Adventurer: The Curse of the Midas Box [2014]
“Faithfulness will be your shield” There will never be a lack of literary fantasy adventures for ages 12 and up to transfer from page to screen. The question becomes whether the property is given...
View ArticleREVIEW: Possession [1981]
“There is nothing to fear except God. Whatever that means to you.” It’s the early 1980s in West Berlin and graffiti everywhere screams for the wall to be taken down. Mysterious figures linger on the...
View ArticleREVIEW: Hunt for the Wilderpeople [2016]
“Find water. Go to high ground. And don’t get naked.” A Māori boy and a Pākehā man go forth into the New Zealand bush. It sounds like the start to a joke. But while Taika Waititi‘s latest Hunt for the...
View ArticleREVIEW: Tommy’s Honour [2017]
“A man’s got to use every club he has” I’ve never been one for golf—playing or watching. I know many who feel the same and many of those who found themselves becoming fans during Tiger Woods’ heyday...
View ArticleREVIEW: Sweet Country [2018]
“What chance have we got?” Director Warwick Thornton immediately connected to childhood friend and co-writer David Tranter‘s (with Steven McGregor) script because it provided an authentic context for...
View ArticleREVIEW: The Commuter [2018]
“One little thing” If the timeline is to be believed, the fourth meet-up between director Jaume Collet-Serra and Liam Neeson entitled The Commuter was the result of the latter rather than the former....
View ArticleREVIEW: Jurassic Park III [2001]
“No force on Earth or Heaven could get me on that island” It’s almost ironic to discover David Koepp—screenwriter of the franchise’s previous two installments—was the one to think up the “simpler”...
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