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The cult flick rises again

They still make cult movies, don't they? It's hard to tell sometimes, seeing as how many of the flicks that became staples at North America's repertory theatres and campus film societies – e.g., The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Pink Flamingos – are now ...

From JASON ANDERSON, Globe and Mail,  26 Sep 2008

A humble story beautifully told

While samurai themes are not as prominent as they once were in Japanese cinema, director Yoji Yamada has been steadily adding to the genre with a series of films that bear many of its core virtues. Thrill-hungry aficionados of Asian action cinema may ...

From JASON ANDERSON, Globe and Mail,  19 Sep 2008

Babylon is a mess of biblical proportions

Released at the end of the summer with little marketing and no screenings for reviewers, Babylon A.D. has every appearance of being a rote action flick that will go unnoticed by anyone but the most devoted fans of Vin Diesel. And so it is… pretty ...

From JASON ANDERSON, Globe and Mail,  1 Sep 2008

If only the goal had been a decent movie

David Beckham may star in Goal II: Living the Dream but calling him an actor is like calling his wife a singer. (That's not to suggest they don't look fabulous doing whatever it is they're doing – indeed, looking good is what Posh and Becks do best.) ...

From JASON ANDERSON, Globe and Mail,  29 Aug 2008

Sometimes a miracle is not enough

In recent years, people have seen what they believe to be the face of Jesus on an ultrasound scan of a pregnant woman's womb, a grilled cheese sandwich and only last month the fur on a cat named Sissy. With that in mind, its appearance in Henry Poole ...

From JASON ANDERSON, Globe and Mail,  22 Aug 2008

Sutherland's talent can't redeem perplexing plot

An occasionally inventive but ultimately plodding horror film by French director Alexandre Aja, Mirrors is hardly the most prestigious movie vehicle for Kiefer Sutherland. In fact, his face is nowhere to be seen on its main poster, which could be an ...

From JASON ANDERSON, Globe and Mail,  18 Aug 2008

A beacon of goodness

The reputation of rickshaw drivers in New Delhi is apparently so atrocious that the characters in Amal regard the existence of a decent one as something of a miracle. Far different from the “sucking leeches” and “bloody crooks” who give his vocation a ...

From JASON ANDERSON, Globe and Mail,  8 Aug 2008

An amusing black comedy – with a fatal flaw

If audiences have learned anything from movies and TV shows such as The Loved One, Kissed and Six Feet Under, it's that funeral homes aren't nearly as tranquil as they might appear. The dignified establishment in this first feature by Halifax ...

From JASON ANDERSON, Globe and Mail,  25 Jul 2008

Canadian film's conceptual risk-taker

Growing up on the edge of the Don Valley in the Toronto suburb of Thorncliffe, Peter Lynch felt like he had a foot in two different worlds: the modern, structured world of the high-rises such as the one in which he lived and the wilderness of the ...

From JASON ANDERSON, Globe and Mail,  20 Jun 2008

Farce goes on holiday

Directed and written by Joan Carr-Wiggin If you're planning to go to a Mediterranean island for a romantic rendezvous with your first love, don't bring your husband - he might ruin the mood. Unfortunately, this advice was never given to the heroine of ...

From JASON ANDERSON, Globe and Mail,  9 May 2008

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