Interview by Lily Davis. Canopy marks the feature film debut for director Aaron Wilson. The film follows Australian fighter pilot Jim, who is shot down during the Japanese invasion of WWII. He awakes suspended in the trees of the dense and unfamiliar Singaporean jungle. It’s an engaging story about navigating foreign landscapes, and above all, human …
An interesting sounding science-fiction film with an all-star cast led by the Academy Award-nominee Johnny Depp and directed by Christopher Nolan’s acclaimed cinematographer Wally Pfister, what could go wrong? Let us count the ways. Transcendence tells the story of Dr. Will Caster, played by a half-asleep Johnny Depp, a scientist working towards the creation of an omniscient, sentient machine. …
Written by Zac Platt. More often than not, biopics bog themselves down giving all the historical dot points of their subject’s lives rather than putting forth an interesting character study. For that reason I find myself more intrigued when a biography focuses on a specific event or on the people that surround the subject, giving …
Written by Lola Sterret. Although labelled as a romantic-comedy, The Other Woman is a film more focused on exploring the sheer bizarreness of female friendship, rather than a burgeoning romantic relationship between the two main characters. The Other Woman, from director Nick Cassavetes (The Notebook, My Sister’s Keeper), introduces us to the character of Carly Whitten …
Watching The Grand Budapest Hotel is like watching a work of art. Director Wes Anderson (The Royal Tenenbaums, Moonrise Kingdom) has created a visual masterpiece that will excite your imagination and transport you to another world. The majority of the film is set in the fictional town of Zubrowska during the 1930s. We enter the …
Written by Guillermo Troncoso. There was a mixed response when it was announced that Sony Pictures was to reboot its Spider-Man franchise, especially since Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man 3 had only been released 5 years earlier. The all-too well-named Marc Webb, enjoying the attention from 500 Days of Summer, was hired to direct The Amazing Spider-Man. The …
Actor John Turturro is back in the writer and director’s chair for the fifth time with Fading Gigolo, a comedy that sees him star as a reluctant male escort with Woody Allen as an unlikely pimp. When Murray (Allen) is forced to close down his bookstore, the possibility of being a pimp suddenly seems like …
“Ladies and Gentlemen, I present to you Marvel’s best movie to date.”
I have no doubt 2014 will probably see bigger movies, more heartfelt movies, and if we are lucky, maybe even funnier movies. But when it comes to pure unbridled fun, I don’t see anything coming along this year to take the crown from the blinding brilliance of Phil Lord and Christopher Miller’s building-blockbuster The Lego …
Written by Jessica Hanlon. When Brooklyn Nine-Nine first made its debut earlier this fall, I recommended that you keep an eye on it because it had the potential to develop into a funny show that was worthy of its place in your weekly schedule of television shows (find my pilot review HERE). Now, as its …
