Transformers: Age of Extinction Written by Ehren Kruger Directed by Michael Bay Opens June 27 Runtime: endless MPAA: PG Country: USA Language English Rating 2/5 How often can Hollywood expect people to pay to watch piles of metal fighting and exploding? Simple question. I sawT4 in a packed screening and at the end the kids cheered, no doubt because finally… View Post
Jersey Boys Directed by Clint Eastwood Starring John Lloyd Young, Vincent Piazza, Erich Bergen and Michael Lomenda Based on the Broadway musical, based on the story of the Four Seasons Country: USA Language: English Rating: 4/5 It was common knowledge but news to me that Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, one of the seminal American fifties pop groups was… View Post
Uvanga Writer-director Marie-Hélène Cousineau on Filmmaking in Canada’s High Arctic Filmmaker Marie-Hélène Cousineau has co-created a successful women’s film initiative in the Canada’s High Arctic. Originally from Montreal, Cousineau spent 20 years in Igloolik, and returns every summer to teach and make movies. Her second film Uvanga (“Myself”), following the landmark Before Tomorrow, tells the story of a white woman (Marianne… View Post
22 Jump Street 35 mm comedy Directed by Phil Lord, Christopher Miller Starring Channing Tatum, Jonah Hill, Ice Cube Country: USA Language: English Rating: 3.5 / 5 Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill are pure magic together, if not a tad co-dependent in this warm hearted and funny bromance, the sequel to the box office phenom remake of the hit TV… View Post
3rd Annual Italian Contemporary Film Festival June 12 – 20 In Toronto, Vaughan, Hamilton, Montreal and Quebec City In many ways ICFF is the little film festival that could. It is in its third year, with an increasingly impressive in number and quality of its cinematic offerings. 38 films will be shown, 10 North American premieres films, 3 world premieres and 3… View Post
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