Tuesday, 10 September 2013
Movie Review: Meet Me In St. Louis
Meet Me in St. Louis -- one of those big, bold musicals from MGM that, to this day, remains a classic example of how to incorporate song and dance when weaving together a story. The picture itself is a slice of life -- one y...
TIFF 13 Review: Rock the Casbah
Rock the Casbah operates squarely within a couple of familiar categories: national cinema and narratives about troubled family dynamics. Both can, of course, be rich grounds for exploration of identity and relations between ...
TIFF13 Review: Tim's Vermeer (2013)
For years, controversy has smoldered in the art world regarding Johannes Vermeer and his hyper realistic paintings of middle class Dutch life. To be specific, x-ray examination of Vermeer's paintings reveal that there were no sketch marks beneath the...
Monday, 9 September 2013
Review: Generation Um (2012)
Not knowing how to start this review off per-say, I'm choosing to express these very exact dizzying thoughts of indecisive-uncertainty and thereby establish this annoyingly abstract introduction into discussing Mark Mann's New York/soul-searchers sto...
TIFF13 Review: Thou Gildst the Even (2013)
Turkish writer-director Onur Ünlü’s kicks off his mysterious Thou Gilds't the Even with an epigram from Euripides: Man is created from anxiety. Indeed, our protaganist Cemal is a man of anxieties, which we know right away by...
TIFF13 Review: Kill Your Darlings (2013)
Kill Your Darlings, the debut feature from filmmaker John Krokidas, is a love poem to the Beats before they were the Beats. Set in and around the Columbia University campus in the mid-1940's, the film details both the curiou...
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