“This is politically incorrect,” says actor Robert Davi in the back of a Toronto bar one weekday morning. He is talking about his new movie, The Great Chameleon, and he is sitting beside Canadian writer and actor Victor Altomare. The two old-school Italian men have teamed up for an absurdist comedy filmed in Toronto, and one that is a marked departure for the legendary Davi. “Political correctness
There is a reason that The East, Zal Batmanglij’s taut, suspenseful thriller about a secret eco-activist organization, feels so authentic, and is filled with moral complexity. It’s because Batmanglij and his creative partner and star of the film, Brit Marling, have firsthand experience living like the characters.
Seth Rogen had an enviable yet tricky task in his latest project. He is playing himself in a role – or at least a version of himself- and gets to hang out with five of his real life friends on screen, all of whom are also playing themselves. They get to goof and riff off one another, often times recreating for the camera conversations that would happen off camera not ten minutes before, while also toying with their celebrity image.
As one of the more original summer blockbusters, Now You See Me, a magical caper filled with quick wit and charming stars, it’s the beginning and the end that look to stand out the most for movie-goers.
For me it’s starting the day with coffee and the newspaper. For actor Noah Reid it’s a dislike of electronic music and being a bit of a sweet curmudgeon. For his character Stock Burton, it’s enjoying predictability, normalcy, and comfortable shoes.
You have to wait through decapitations, deadly flatulence, bugs, clones, and killer toilets, but eventually you will get to Jason Eisener’s insidiously creepy four-minute horror short about revenge. The ABCs of Death, which premiered at …
Thomas Dekker assumes the compelling role of Cullen Francis, a young man who, upon the sudden death of his loving mother, learns from a posthumous video that he is the product of a rape.
While the ratings for Netflix’s second original series, like all the other data they collect, can and may be hidden, skewed, or simply ignored, what Hemlock Grove has completed is still unique in the entertainment landscape.
Based on the novel by Brian McGreevy, and with executive producer Eli Roth, Hemlock Grove tells the story of a string of bizarre deaths and explores the murder of a teenager while exploring the strange and supernatural characters that comprise this eerie Pennsylvanian hamlet.
Someday, soon perhaps, we won’t have to preface a love or promotion of a piece of entertainment by catching ourselves and saying it happens to be Canadian. As if a film or television show is judged by a different standard because it’s made in the Great White North.
Fede Alvarez wasn’t particularly well known until the last year or so, and when the movie world did learn his name, it came with a massive weight on his shoulders, a dead weight you might say. His task, which he did chose to accept, was to remake, however he choose , 1981’s Sam Raimi-directed cult hit The Evil Dead.
