It’s been riding the hype train for the better part of 2014 and is expected to take in excess of $50 million this weekend, but it looks like Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar could be beaten out by Disney’s Big Hero 6 for box office supremacy. As anyone who read our latest US box office report will […]

Corbo, 2014. Directed by Mathieu Denis. Starring Anthony Therrien, Antoine L’Écuyer, Karelle Tremblay, Tony Nardi, Jean-François Pronovost, Dino Tavarone, Marie Brassard, Francis Ducharme, and Simon Pigeon. SYNOPSIS: A teenage Quebecer in the 1960s evolves from pro-independence activist to radical terrorist. The prologue talks about how French Quebecers were discriminated by the English minority resulting in the majority […]

Waste Land, 2014. Directed by Pieter Van Hees. Starring Jérémie Renier, Natali Broods, Babetida Sadjo, Peter van den Begin, and Mourade Zeguendi. SYNOPSIS: A Brussels homicide cop (Jérémie Renier) begins to lose control of his life as he tries to solve a bizarre murder. A child peacefully sleeps in his bed while a rabbit nightlight glows on […]

The Imitation Game, 2014 Directed by Morten Tyldum. Starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Keira Knightley, Matthew Goode, Mark Strong, Charles Dance, Allen Leech and Tuppence Middleton.   SYNOPSIS: English mathematician and logician, Alan Turing, helps crack the Enigma code during World War II. A break and enter to the house of an eccentric Cambridge Mathematics professor whose off-handed and demeaning manner about the […]

The Gate (Le temps des aveux), 2014. Directed by Régis Wargnier. Starring Raphaël Personnaz, Olivier Gourmet, and Kompheak Phoeung. SYNOPSIS: Two decades after forging an unlikely alliance in Pol Pot’s Cambodia, a French ethnologist and a former Khmer Rouge official meet again after the latter is arrested for crimes against humanity. A native of France spends his […]

1001 Grams, 2014. Directed by Bent Hamer. Starring Ane Dahl Torp, Laurent Stocker, Stein Winge, Hildegun Riise, Per Christian Ellefsen, Peter Hudson, Dinara Droukarova, Christian Erickson, Didier Flamand, and Magne Håvard Brekke. SYNOPSIS: A recently divorced, work-obsessed lab technician finds herself encountering a whole new world of experience when she attends an important scientific conference in Paris. […]

Big Game, 2014. Directed by Jalmari Helander. Starring Samuel L. Jackson, Onni Tommila, Ray Stevenson, Mehmet Kurtulus, Victor Garber, Ted Levine, Felicity Huffman, and Jim Broadbent. SYNOPSIS: Trapped in the wilderness after Air Force One is forced down by a terrorist attack, the President of the United States must rely on the survival skills of a 13-year-old […]

The Price We Pay (La Face cachée de l’impôt), 2014. Directed by Harold Crooks. SYNOPSIS: The  documentary explores the dark history and dire present-day reality of big-business tax avoidance, which has seen multinationals depriving governments of trillions of dollars in tax revenues by harbouring profits in offshore havens. Corporations like individuals try to avoid paying taxes […]

Anthony Hodgson on his three greatest book to movie adaptations… American Psycho Author, Bret Easton Ellis. Screenplay, Mary Harron & Guinevere Turner. Upon its original publication in 1991, American Psycho was marred by controversy, and it’s no surprise considering one of the chapters is called ‘Killing Child at Zoo’, which was sensibly not included in […]

Spoiler alert! According to the Wall Street Journal, legendary Japanese filmmaker and Studio Ghibli co-founder Hayao Miyazaki will receive an honorary Oscar from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in November. This will mark the second Oscar on Miyazaki’s mantle, the first of which was for his 2001 film Spirited Away, which took home […]