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Oh Paris, je t’aime! What do you get when you mix the influence of French new wave director Jean-Luc Godard, the acting talents of Jim...

‘Can you really love a child without your blood’? What would you be willing to do for a child you barely know and never helped raise?...

Controversy is sure to ensue following the release of the Bible’s greatest and most epic story found in the Old Testament involving Noah...

When tasting someone else’s food for the first time, there is always a bit of a risk–whether the food will be satisfactory or not. Will...

Leaving us on the cusp of coming…to any real closure with our young protagonist Joe (Stacy Martin), von Trier throws quite the curve ball...

I didn’t discover Lars von Trier until the tender age of twenty-two years old, and like so many others, it was all thanks to his shocking...

It’s very rare that I find myself lost in narrative, characters, and comedy, that I forget altogether that I am watching a movie intent...

“You see, there are still faint glimmers of civilization left in this barbaric slaughter house that was once known as humanity”.  If...

I remember the first time I saw the Fast and the Furious, and how it made me feel after leaving the theatre. By the time the credits...

In a world according to Paradise Now director Hany Abu-Assad, death, murder and revolt is currently a right of passage to manhood and way...

Never in the history of the Oscar’s inception has a race been so tight. Between Amerian Hustle, 12 Years A Slave & Gravity, the Academy...

In 2009, actor Liam Neeson starred in Pierre Morel’s surprise sleeper hit Taken, and what began was an onslaught of early year/before...

Pompeii is the type of epic disaster movie with a story-line centered on the brief and wholly unrealistic love story of a couple who just...

If there is one film that defines the notion that ‘no coming of age story can be depicted too late’, it’s Gloria. After getting divorced...

Love lost and love found are some of the most rewarding narratives we have ever seen on the big screen. In David Elliot’s (Alex...

“It’s about what men say, it’s about what women think”  yet, it has nothing new to say about the modern day man that we haven’t already...

Through his career as an actor, George Clooney has offered audiences with a well-to-do list of fine performances that bring to life vivid...

“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.”  This remains to be one of my favourite idioms of all time. The beauty of art is very rarely...

Today is a sad day in the world of movies. Early this afternoon, in his Greenwich Village apartment in New York City, the incredibly...

In 2011, I was introduced to Asghar Farhadi’s superb film A Separation and his unique “everything that can go wrong, will go wrong”...