Film Reviews

Let's get a bit of vocab out of the way first: in folklore, a "revenant" is a visible ghost or animated corpse believed to have returned from the grave to terrorize the living.

So 2015 didn't feel epic at the cinemas, but in the last 12 months we've seen five films make over a billion dollars in theatrical release. That's up from just one in 2014, two in 2013 and four in 2012.

Christmas parties are one of the best things about being an adult. And the older you get the better the Christmas house parties get — last weekend I hit one up and the theme was Die Hard .

There's really only one thing to talk about this week and that is Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens , which opens Thursday night at the Whistler Village 8. Well almost the only thing, there's another Chipmunks flick and Sisters also opens.

S tar Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens hits screens next week (Friday, Dec. 18). All over the globe, middle-aged parents are scrambling to bring their children up to speed on the story thus far.

Christmas movies almost always suck. For every Gremlins or Scrooged, there are literally dozens of crapfests like Christmas with the Kranks, Four Christmases or Just Friends ( Whatever happened to Amy Smart anyhow?).

L ife's a funny thing, nobody wants to get old but no one wants to die young either. You just have to follow the path." -Keith Richards.

The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.

The cinematic menu at the Whistler Village 8 is not looking all that fresh this week.

Crowdfunding is already democratizing filmmaking but for the most part the effects of websites like Kickstarter or Indiegogo have been primarily focused on short films ( Kung Fury, Turbo Kid ). According to Indiewire.com though, the U.S.