CineFile’s Top 10 Films of 2013
And what a year it has been. I probably spent more time in cinemas and saw more movies this year than any other before. My friends and family knew not to bug me Tuesday nights because I would be in the...
View ArticleLone Survivor
Lone Survivor (2014), directed by Peter Berg What exactly is the point of Lone Survivor? What are we supposed to take away from it? This is the question I could not stop mulling over as I left a...
View ArticleI, Frankenstein
I, Frankenstein (2014), directed Stuart Beattie When most people think of Frankenstein they picture a lumbering, enormous green monster with bolts coming out of his neck. Few realize the original...
View ArticleCineFile’s Picks for the Victoria Film Festival
Well Victoria, B.C. film fans, it’s that time of the year again. The main event. The big show. The Run for the Roses. Film festival. While it’s not the biggest or most important film festival going,...
View ArticleThat Awkward Shadow Recruit, er, That Awkward Moment and Jack Ryan: Shadow...
That Awkward Moment (2014), directed by Tom Gormican Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (2014), directed by Kenneth Branagh It’s been a lot of Academy Award catch up lately, along with prep for the Victoria...
View ArticleCineFile’s Victoria Film Festival Opening Weekend Roundup
Well after a fabulous, and fabulously busy, opening weekend, the Victoria Film Festival is in full swing as it heads through its 10-day schedule of local and international films, documentaries and...
View ArticleCineFile wraps up the Victoria FIlm Festival
Well folks, as they say in the business, that’s a wrap. The Victoria Film Festival came to a close for its 20th year of operation this Sunday, and out of Victoria’s cinemas stumbled a zombie-like hoard...
View ArticleCineFile’s 86th Academy Awards Preview Extravaganza
Sunday! Sunday! Sunday! No, it’s not Monster Truck Madness at the Tacoma Dome. It’s something far more dirty and overinflated. But also, for a movie nerd like me, a lot more fun. It’s Oscars time,...
View Article300: Need for Speed, er, 300: Rise of an Empire and Need for Speed
300: Rise of an Empire (2014), directed by Noam Murro Need for Speed (2014), directed by Scott Waugh Well devoted readers, I haven’t been doing many written reviews of wide release movies lately and...
View ArticleThe Quiet Man, er, The Railway Man and The Quiet Ones
The Railway Man (2013), directed by Jonathan Teplitzky The Quiet Ones (2014), directed by John Pogue Apart from having three word, adjective-noun titles beginning with the article “the” (and directors...
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