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‘Top Five’ delivers raunchy, heartfelt laughs
Top Five Written & Directed by Chris Rock USA, 2014 Chris Rock’s new tour de force, Top Five, is so cleverly written that you don’t even realize it’s a romantic-comedy until the deed is nearly done. By that point, even the coldest, most cynical man is powerless to resist its charms. Smart, nasty and […] More
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TIFF 14: ‘Top Five’ is one of the best comedies in years
Chris Rock has always been one of the most invigorating presences in the comedy scene. His comedy is confrontational, biting and hilarious. Up until this point, his foray into filmmaking has rarely matched his unique and vibrant talents, and while there are certainly exceptions, on-screen Chris Rock has usually been reduced to a much tamer and often much less funny version of himself. With Top Five, however, the gears seems to shift. Chris Rock not only shows off why he is one of the funniest people alive, but applies his humour to a surprisingly daring narrative about the value of laughter and the struggle of being an artist. The film also works as a wonderful meta-textual narrative on the state of the current Hollywood system, as well as a touching romance. More
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‘Sin City: A Dame to Kill For’ delivers the sleaze to please
Sin City: A Dame to Kill For Written by Frank Miller Directed by Robert Rodriguez & Frank Miller USA, 2014 When Sin City exploded into theaters in 2005, we had never seen anything like it. It was a resounding declaration that digital filmmaking had finally arrived. The new Robert Rodriquez-Frank Miller collaboration, Sin City: […] More
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‘Sin City: A Dame to Kill For’, the latest Robert Rodriguez film, gets a red-band trailer
Over the course of his career, filmmaker Robert Rodriguez has garnered a number of fans for films such as Desperado, From Dusk Till Dawn, and Machete. Fans of Rodriguez were excited to learn that his next project would be a sequel to his 2005 feature Sin City. Titled Sin City: A Dame to Kill For, […] More
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‘The Captive’, Atom Egoyan’s newest feature, gets a US trailer
Filmmaker Atom Egoyan has, over the course of his career, garnered critical and commercial acclaim for a number of features, including The Sweet Hereafter, Where the Truth Lies, and Chloe. With his last feature coming in 2013, many were thus intrigued to learn that he was already at work on a new project. Titled The […] More
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The ‘Sin City’ sequel ‘A Dame to Kill For’ gets a new trailer
Over the course of their careers, filmmaker Robert Rodriguez and writer Frank Miller have garnered a number of fans and accolades in their individual lines of work. Many were thus excited to learn that the two would be working together on an adaptation of Miller’s graphic novel Sin City, with the film’s release in 2005 soon […] More
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Cannes 2014: Atom Egoyan’s ‘The Captive’ a sour play-by-the-numbers investigation thriller
Atom Egoyan’s The Captive pits Ryan Reynolds as a blue collar vigilante in an investigatory drama of pedophiles and police-work. However, while its central themes seem reminiscent of the recent Prisoners, its execution is regrettably drawn from cartoons, Lifetime schlock, and the worst traits of primetime detective shows. Following an increasing number of recent failings for the Canadian director, The Captive sets itself up for a return to the form of his heartfelt mid-90s melodrama The Sweet Hereafter, but thanks to the exacerbated direction and faux-camp spirit, it evokes hardly any reaction other than groans and pity-guffaws. More
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‘The Captive,’ the latest feature from Atom Egoyan, releases its first trailer
Could this be a return to form for Atom Egoyan? Following the announcement of its official selection for this year’s Cannes film festival, the first trailer for Egoyan’s The Captive is online, and it looks like a tense, psychological thriller. Since hitting his stride in the 90s with a series of multi-faceted, insightful dramas—Speaking Parts, […] More
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‘Sin City: A Dame to Kill For’, from Robert Rodriguez, releases its first trailer
Over the course of a career that has spanned over two decades, filmmaker Robert Rodriguez has garnered a number of fans, with a filmography that includes El Mariachi and its subsequent sequels, From Dusk Till Dawn, Spy Kids and its subsequent sequels, and Machete. Many were thus excited to hear that the next film from Rodriguez […] More
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‘Trance’ an overheated, ridiculous yet never dull psychological thriller
Danny Boyle has yet to make a dull movie, but that appears to be the only consistency he’s concerned with. His new film Trance is as amped up, jittery, and stylistically charged as Slumdog Millionaire, 127 Hours, and the rest of his filmography, but the story holds up to barely the most minor scrutiny. Trance’s inconsistencies go well beyond its script, all the way down to the various flourishes Boyle employs throughout the film, tossing them out as he deems them useless. More
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Danny Boyle’s ‘Trance’ is an oppressively shallow exercise
Trance Written by John Hodge and Joe Ahearne Directed by Danny Boyle UK, 2013 Danny Boyle’s return to the thriller genre is also a return to the three character piece nature of his debut feature Shallow Grave, albeit placed within the confines of a heist film set mostly within the human mind. This is bound […] More
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‘Trance’, the latest thriller from director Danny Boyle, releases a red-band trailer
While filmmaker Danny Boyle has spent the last two years wrapped up in coordinating the opening ceremony of the 2012 London Olympics, many fans were eager to see what project the director would take on once the event was over. Boyle did not disappoint, as he took the director’s chair for the first time since […] More
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