The Australian film, Rabbit from writer/director Luke Shanahan has it’s Canadian premiere tonight at Scotiabank Theatre for the Toronto After Dark film festival. The film, a slow burn character drama that messes with your mind, stars Adelaide Clemens as Maude, an identical twin who believes that her twin, Cleo, who has been missing for over…
Month: October 2017
A Propos de Nice (1930) – Jean Vigo
I’m spending a little more time with French director Jean Vigo as I continue my exploration of the continually enthralling, and informative The Movie Book from DK Canada. The next film of his I take a look at is the short, A Propos de Nice. Shot in 1930, the film seems, at first, to be…
Toronto After Dark 2017: The Villainess – Byung-gil Jung
The hyper-kinetic assassin thriller The Villainess, has it’s Toronto premiere this evening at Toronto After Dark, screening exclusively at Scotiabank Theatre. This South Korean film is nothing short of a high-octane thriller that recalls Besson’s La Femme Nikita with overtones of Tarantino’s Kill Bill. Ok-bin Kim stars as Sook-hee, a violent woman with a violent…
Doctor Who (Matt Smith) – Cold Blood, and Vincent and the Doctor
Rory (Arthur Darvill), Amy (Karen Gillan) and the Doctor (Smith) have their hands full this week as we dive into the second part of the Silurian story that started last week with The Hungry Earth. Cold Blood was written by Chris Chibnall and first aired on 29 May, 2010. The Time Lord is going underground…
Zero de Conduite (1933) – Jean Vigo
The next stop in DK Canada’s brilliant, and highly enjoyable, The Movie Book is a collection of films by French auteur Jean Vigo. The first one highlighted and serving as gateway to the rest of his work is the short, Zero de Conduite, or Zero for Conduct. Running at a brisk forty-one minutes the film…
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1989) – The Survivors, and Who Watches the Watchers
Captain’s log: stardate 43152.4 The first episode up this week, first aired on 9 October, 1989. The Survivors was written by Michael I. Wagner and sees the Enterprise summoned to the remote planet Rana IV in response to a distress call. Once there, they discover that the entire planet is destroyed, except for one small plot…
The Twilight Zone (1963) – The New Exhibit, and Of Late I Think of Cliffordville
Look, there’s the signpost up ahead, it’s time to enter The Twilight Zone as I continue my exploration of The Complete Series on blu-ray available now from Paramount Pictures. This week starts with The New Exhibit, which was written by Charles Beaumont and first aired on 4 April, 1963. The story follows Martin Lombard Senescu…
A Swiftly Tilting Planet (1978) – Madeleine L’Engle
The third book in the Wrinkle in Time series is quite possibly my favourite of the lot so far. Set some years after the previous tale, A Wind in the Door, it was nice to catch up with the Murry family again. Meg is now married to Calvin, and is pregnant, the twins are continuing…
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1989) – Evolution, and The Ensigns of Command
Captain’s log: stardate 43125.8 This is the season that things really start to gel for the series, there are new uniforms, stronger writing, even better visuals, and Beverly Crusher (Gates McFadden) returns. And it all starts with a Wesley (Wil Wheaton) story. Evolution was written by Michael Piller from a story he and Micheal I….
The House (2017) – Andrew Jay Cohen
Releasing to blu-ray and DVD today from Warner Brothers, is the latest comedic effort from Will Ferrell and Amy Poehler. Somewhere in this film, there is the potential for something really funny, but far too often the dialogue is pushed past the point of hilarity to absurdity, and the story itself could have played as…
The Mind Reels 