A charming but fatally slow exposition of yet another real Sherlock Holmes. An ageing Sherlock Holmes (Ian McKellen) is still solving cases in spite of galloping senility gaining on his senses by leaps and bounds. Apparently even fictional heroes are subject to time and tides, as the magnificent background of the white cliffs of Dover
An amazing look at the new world of methamphetamine manufacture and distribution and the losing battle locals are fighting against it. Film maker Matthew Heineman obtains unmatched access to the Mexican drug business and executes a heart rending story of the fight locals are waging against the megalithic force of drug cartels. The film starts
One of Canada’s best loved television comedians Gavin Crawford of This Hour Has 22 Minutes had his work cut out for him in Maureen Bradley’s heart tugging comedy drama Two 4 One. He plays Adam, a lesbian transitioning to become a man who is still involved with his ex- lesbian lover. And to make matters
The Finnish film Big Game is based on an outrageous idea that started as a joke between filmmakers. The US president’s plane crashes in the Finnish woods enroute to a conference. He is alone and finds himself in the midst of a far reaching conspiracy with only a young boy to help. Samuel L. Jackson
Arnie is back with his tongue in his cheek and a toolbox of special effects. Ignore the time travel science-babble and concentrate on the feeling of a nuclear holocaust that seethes into your theatre and plants flying buses in your lap. 3-D IMAX is the only way to see the latest in the Terminator franchise,
Despite its familiar plot, director James McTeigue’s Survivor is an excellent thriller – thanks to its fast pace and a chilling performance from Pierce Brosnan. From a screenplay by Philip Shelby (the upcoming Mechanic: Resurrection), Survivor sees Brosnan joined by a stellar cast including Milla Jovovich, Dylan McDermott, Angela Bassett, and Robert Forster. The film
Steps out on the edge with a fearless exploration of life told with exceptional creativity. A refreshing and remarkable accomplishment. Director Alfonso Gomez-Rejon won big at Sundance this year with both Audience Award and Grand Jury Prize and took home the Best Director award at the Seattle Film Festival with this funny, touching and unabashedly
Al Pacino’s naturalism is a great gift to cinema. As an ageing locksmith afraid to retire and stuck on a woman who left him decades earlier, he lives alone in a small town. His closest friends are his cat and an addict, the owner of a local tanning/massage parlour (Harmony Korine). He behaves just like
Some films take hundreds of hours of tedious work and countless exhausted nights of ulcerous brooding. Some simply make themselves. “The Wolfpack” was shot mostly on New York’s Lower East Side by home video masters the Angulo brothers. Locked up in their apartment for over a decade, held captive by a paranoid father and co-dependent
The intense, richly detailed limited series New Worlds looks to the late 1600s, the turbulent Restoration period and the simultaneous settling and colonisation of America, the new world. It shows in its limited scope, why these events were happening at the same time, how it affected the political and religious refugees to America, the native