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Review: Escobar: Paradise Lost (TIFF 2014)

Posted 12 years ago

PLOT: Nick (Josh Hutcherson) is a Canadian tourist travelling through Columbia. He meets and falls in love with a young woman (Claudia Traisac) who just happens to be the niece of cocaine-kingpin Pablo Escobar (Benicio Del Toro). Escobar quickly warms...

Review: Electric Boogaloo: The Wild Untold Story of Cannon Films (TIFF 2014)

Posted 12 years ago

PLOT: The story of Menahem Golan, and Yoram Globus, two Israeli cousins who, in the eighties, ran the exploitation film studio Cannon Pictures. REVIEW: I grew up watching Cannon Films. Chuck Norris, Charles Bronson, Sly, Dolph, I loved ’em all....

Review: The Imitation Game (TIFF 2014)

Posted 12 years ago

PLOT: The true story of cryptanalyst Alan Turing (Benedict Cumberbatch) who – during WW2 – helped break the Nazi Enigma Code and helped shorten the war by several years, saving millions of lives. REVIEW: It’s no wonder that so many...

Review: Foxcatcher (TIFF 2014)

Posted 12 years ago

PLOT: The true story of Olympic wrestler Mark Schultz (Channing Tatum) who finds himself taken under the wing of a dangerously unpredictable sponsor, John du Pont (Steve Carell). REVIEW: Going into a film festival like TIFF, a movie with the...

Review: Tusk (TIFF 2014) + Video Review!

Posted 12 years ago

Check out Chris Bumbray's Video Review below! PLOT: A popular podcaster (Justin Long) on assignment in Manitoba, falls prey to a former seafarer (Michael Parks) with a fondness for walruses. REVIEW: After a bit of a rough patch Kevin Smith...

Review: The Drop (TIFF 2014)

Posted 12 years ago

PLOT: Bob Saginowsk (Tom Hardy) works at his cousin Marv’s (James Gandolfini) bar, which doubles as a “drop” for mob money. When the two are robbed for a relatively small amount, they realize how vulnerable they are to robberies, which...

TIFF 2014: Bill Murray and Ivan Reitman discuss Ghostbusters and more!

Posted 12 years ago

Our own Chris Bumbray is at the Toronto International Film Festival and got the chance to sit in on the GHOSTBUSTERS screening and Q&A, which was attended by Bill Murray, Ivan Reitman, and screenwriter Mitch Glazer (SCROOGED). In case you...

Tusk clip features Justin Long making a call for help

Posted 12 years ago

Here’s our first clip from Kevin Smith’s monster movie TUSK, starring Justin Long, Genesis Rodriguez, Michael Parks and Haley Joel Osment. The film is actually only a few weeks away from release (and only one day away from its Toronto...

It Follows (TIFF Review)

Posted 12 years ago

PLOT: After a violent sexual encounter, a young woman (Maika Monroe) finds herself plagued by a deadly curse. REVIEW: When you see as many horror movies as I do, it's pretty easy to get desensitized to even the roughest batch...

Review: Maps to the Stars (TIFF 2014)

Posted 12 years ago

PLOT: A young burn victim (Mia Wasikowska) comes to Hollywood, where she winds up working for an ageing actress (Julianne Moore) bent on a staging a comeback. REVIEW: Confounding. That's the only word I can think of that accurately describes...

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