Review| G-Funk
G-Funk is a laid-back and enjoyable chronicle of the early days of West Coast hip-hop, featuring and produced by some of the genre’s most famous luminaries. This review is part of an ongoing series covering films appearing in the 2017 Calgary…
Review| Six Rounds (2017)
London, England. 2011. Between 6th and 11th of August thousands of people rioted in several London boroughs. Resulting in 5 deaths. The uprising was sparked on August 4th, by the fatal shooting of black 29 year old, Mark Duggan. He…
Who-ology| S03E02 The Shakespeare Code
This episode is all about the power of words. And who better to feature in a language-focused story than the generally-lauded King of the Written Word, William Shakespeare! “By the pricking of my thumb / Something wicked this way comes”: Also appropriate is…
Review| Beauty and the Beast (2017)
When I was watching Disney’s new Beauty and the Beast, one word kept springing to mind: spectacle. The scale of a Broadway musical meets the sheer wonder of the most lavish of Disney spectacles. The sense of magic and wonderment…
Review| Road to the Well
When I was a kid, I could have sworn that wells were going to be a much bigger problem in life. Whether it was the creepy girl popping out of a well in The Ring to the old trope of…
Review| Toni Erdmann
Toni Erdmann is about the lengths one might go to pursue someone and the ways we mask such a longing for connection under a facade of professional ambition. It’s about the clash that can occur when an eccentric personality plants…
Review| Kong: Skull Island
Opening to an estimated 61 million dollar weekend, Kong: Skull Island, the sophomore film in Legendary’s MonsterVerse, virtually guarantees that we’ll get to see giant monsters duke it out on the big screen for years to come. Twelve-year-old me is…
Review| Paterson
It’s Monday and the early morning sun cast an amber glow to the white undershirt of Paterson (Adam Driver) and the brown skin of his wife (Golshifteh Farahani). Paterson sleepily rolls over and picks his wristwatch off the bedside table.…
Reviewing the Classics| Stalag 17
From the time World War II began to today’s best picture nominee Hacksaw Ridge, there have been many, many great movies set in and around the second great war. With the sheer number of films in this sub-genre, especially those…
Review| The Resurrection of Gavin Stone
The Christian film industry is a strange sub-genre. I remember the fervent debate in high school amongst my friends over whether it was okay to watch the party scenes in How to Save a Life. But Fireproof and Courageous were…