Film Reviews

Summer blockbuster season starts this weekend with Guardians of the Galaxy 2 , the first "tent-pole" picture of the year.

At the start of every disaster movie there is a scientist being ignored.

As if you needed another reason to check out the Whistler Film Festival (WFF), it's worth noting that the WFF brings us excellent flicks waaaaayyyy before the general public ever gets to see them.

The big news this week is that Mad Max: Fury Road was just released on Netflix.

The old saying is "Laughter is the best medicine," and while that doesn't mean it's the perfect medicine (even laughter can't cure ALS, as we saw in John Zaritsky's doc Leave Them Laughing ), it certainly feels better than anything else.

Who are you? Who am I? And how sure are we of that? While the low-hanging fruit this week is to talk about how tight Scarlett Johansson's bodysuit is in the new live-action Ghost in the Shell remake, the more interesting discussion is on the film's i

If it feels like we are entering a golden era of sci-fi, it's because we are. Whether it's actually happening or not, the general perception these days is that the world is going to shit in a shopping cart.

I didn't realize this until just now, but jokes about proliferous anilingus can be funny. Sadly, none of the ones in CHiPs seem to make the grade.

As previously mentioned, the big flick this week is Kong: Skull Island , a high-tempo adventure about a "diverse team of explorers" on an uncharted Pacific island, who end up discovering much more than they bargained for.

A lot of people (the elderly mostly, and wankers) tell me that violence is ruining cinema as an art form and that we're all losing touch with the stories, the characters, and the humanity of our movies.