May - 2015

Ozu's 'Tokyo Story' (1953) Remains an Emotional Tour-de-Force after 60 Years: S&S Ch

Heading into this week's Sight & Sound challenge, I knew that I'd be shifting gears a bit. Whereas Vertigo and Citizen Kane are steepd in...

I was already smiling like a silly nit as I sat down to take in Thomas Vinterberg's Far From the Madding Crowd, aka Video Proof that...

SNL veteran Kristen Wiig is best known for a brand of comedy I like to think of as the "awkward-creepy girl." Who could forget her SNL...

There's something about films set in the summer months that makes them resonate with a sort of tension, a push-pull between the seemingly...

As part of my illustrious Sight & Sound challenge, I watched Orson Welles's seminal classic, Citizen Kane (1941). The film, which depicts...

When I first settled into my cushy, faux-leather seat in my local AVX theatre to watch the fourth installment in the Mad Max franchise,...

This past weekend, the seemingly impossible has happened. A group of better-than-average-looking, a capella singing, vulgar-mouthed women...

It's almost summer. The sun is shining, the bees are buzzing, and pale skin is burnin'. To honour the one season a year in Canada where...

In 1961 Jack Clayton's film, The Innocents, looked like it had all the right ingredients to become a major horror hit. In addition to...

It Follows begins with a swooping shot of a tree-lined, suburban street. A teenage girl comes barrelling out of a nondescript house,...