Foxcatcher, a tense psychological thriller based on a true story, has been floating the mind of Bennett Miller since 2007, and finally with the help of young mega-producer Megan Ellison, got the project made in 2012. It was then delayed from its original 2013 to allow the film to premiere at Cannes, where it got…

If I had to say one element of cinema I feel truly connected to, it would have to be independent films. I admire how some young, hopeful young talent creates something from nearly nothing, and of course because of the lack of studio constraints, some truly incredible, original ideas are brought to the screen. One…

It is very likely that if you were born in the twentieth century, you grew up with Disney. The creator of what is the most iconic animation studio in history, Walt Disney, was a visionary – he was an incredible artist that stands amongst Picasso, Van Gogh and Turner, and a ruthless businessman, who took…

I can’t begin to even attempt to explain Synecdoche, New York. It is a layered, complex masterpiece that will elicit so many different responses from the audience – for those looking for a smart comedy-drama, this will probably be the most boring film you’ll ever see. For those looking for an existential crisis that will…

I will admit when it comes to movies I don’t want to watch, I can be quite a big mouth. There is no film in recent memory that I was so vehemently against quite like The Fault in Our Stars. It wasn’t without reason – young adult films are generally not very good (nor are…

At the beginning of this year, I proclaimed Richard Linklater’s masterpiece Before Midnight as the best film of 2013. I then favourably reviewed the entire Before Trilogy and his slacker masterpiece Dazed and Confused. I came to the agreement that Richard Linklater is a supremely talented filmmaker, but only until today did I realize he…

  Any film with two men going across the country is bound to be interesting. Add the fact that they are criminals and thus chained together, the fact that there is a racial aspect and that the two men are played by Tony Curtis and Sidney Poitier, two of the greatest actors ever to live,…

Has there ever been a writer as timeless as William Shakespeare? His work is so brilliant and the subjects of each of his plays are so timeless, they can be bent and twisted and put into any place or time and still retain the same message. The betrayal of Macbeth, the true love of Romeo…