There Will Be Blood adapted from the 1920’s novel “Oil” is true to the title but only after about two and a half hours have passed in this circa 1900 epic drama. Meantime for the first 20 minutes you start to believe that there won’t be any dialogue yet the basis of the story unfolds articulately thanks to the talent of Daniel Day Lewis. As we’ve come to expect, when he does finally speak he ...
In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale is a big budget, filmed in Burnaby, Lord of the Rings Wannabe. Jason Statham is a boomerang tossing farmer who spent his life pulling turnips yet mysteriously is a skilled swordsman. Although it’s delightful to see some local actors land good parts, the rest of the casting seems to have gone to the lowest bidder. Burt Reynolds is King Konreid of ...
Cloverfield is about as far away from a field of clover as you can get. As we find out during the ominous opening credits it’s the name assigned to a video found in the area formerly know as Central Park. What follows is the videography playback of a particularly bad night in the Big Apple as for a tense 88 minutes we get a cross between The Blair Witch Project and Godzilla. It starts with up ...
How She Move stars Rutina Wesley as Raya Green, a bright young woman with a plan for success whose dreams are shattered when private school funds dry up and she has to return to the delinquent breeding grounds of her old Toronto neighbourhood. Step dancing which was featured in last years Stomp the Yard has come a long way from its African roots to the point where it’s a big influence even in ...