Tag: cinema
Separating the Movies from the Mayhem of 2014
Most movies live lives of quiet desperation. A few win awards, a few make boatloads of money, and a few go down in history as really and truly mattering. But for most, they ply their meager craft for a brief period, hoping to earn a laugh or a cry or a few dollars, and then…
Stinging in the New: 10 Lousy Movies Not to Watch in 2015
Come 2015, humanity will be deluged with a slew of new movies, both studio and independent. There are some I’m looking forward to. And then there are others that I wouldn’t see if even I were threatened with being thrown into a vat of rancid, boiling butter by the vindictive ghost of Attila the Hun.…
Red Army: Film Review
We’ve all heard of Herb Brooks and the 1980 “miracle” at the Lake Placid Olympic games but if you are like me you probably never considered the other side of the story, the Soviet side. Red Army is on a macro-level a story about the Soviet Union but specifically its the story of the “most…
Interviewing Denis Lenoir, Director of Photography for ‘Still Alice’
Directed by Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland, Still Alice is a heartbreaking and honest portrait of a woman struggling to maintain her identity as she copes with a rare disease. A huge part of the film’s resonance comes from the work of Denis Lenoir, the Director of Photography, who has been gracious enough to grant…
Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne’s ‘Two Days One Night’
The insanely versatile Marion Cotillard gives a near career best performance as Sandra in Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne’s Two Days One Night. This is a perfect example of minimalist storytelling allowing for performance and emotion to take centre stage. Sandra (Cotillard) has come out of the hospital to some very unwelcome news; during her…