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Arnaud Desplechin's Christmas journey

The new film, Un conte de Noël ( A Christmas Tale), is the latest and highest-profile film from 48-year-old director Arnaud Desplechin, who has come to be recognized as one of the leading voices in French cinema in the past two decades decade. With a ...

From LIAM LACEY, Globe and Mail,  27 Nov 2008

A simmering existential thriller

ˇ Written and directed by Cédric Anger ˇ Starring Gilbert Melki and Grégoire Colin ˇ Classification: NA In the long French tradition of film critic-turned-auteur comes The Killer, a modest but well-made film noir from former Cahier du Cinema writer ...

From LIAM LACEY, Globe and Mail,  27 Nov 2008

Statham's too good for this delivery

The third in the series of action films about the pugnacious Brit driver and martial artist Frank Martin (Jason Statham), Transporter 3 unfolds like a light version of Quantum of Solace. In each movie, international capitalist thugs are planning ...

From LIAM LACEY, Globe and Mail,  25 Nov 2008

Help! A dingo ate the script!

Years in the talking, a full year in shooting, Baz Luhrmann's new film is determined to put the “awe” in Australia and ends up inspiring at least as much exasperation as admiration. There are vast, gorgeous aerial shots of the country's northern ...

From LIAM LACEY, Globe and Mail,  25 Nov 2008

A feeble attempt at a same-sex chick flick

There's one novelty hook to the cross-cultural lesbian romantic comedy I Can't Think Straight. In what must be a cinematic first, this is the second feature released in the past two weeks by the same writer-director, Shamim Sarif. A novelist of South ...

From LIAM LACEY, Globe and Mail,  21 Nov 2008

Script lands animal caper in the doghouse

Since the mid-nineties there have been essentially two standards in animated films for kids: Pixar movies, and then the rest. Sure, some non-Pixar cartoons have made big impacts (DreamWorks's Shrek franchise), but for sheer wonder and innovative ...

From LIAM LACEY, Globe and Mail,  20 Nov 2008

You can't afford to shop. Go to the movies

Yes, we can, said U.S. President-elect Barack Obama, as he check-listed the challenges facing his country. Well, yes, we can, too. In the movie world, there's another name for the Great Depression; it was the beginning of Hollywood's Golden Era, when ...

From LIAM LACEY, Globe and Mail,  14 Nov 2008

Forgotten classic shows despair of displaced natives in the fifties

An experiment in docudrama, a rare look at displaced Native Americans and a gleaming tone-poem to a lost community, The Exiles (1961) is a forgotten classic. This semi-fictional film follows one night in the lives of a group of young Native Americans ...

From LIAM LACEY, Globe and Mail,  14 Nov 2008

Damme good

Put JCVD into the category of films that no one saw coming. This cinematic oddity first created a buzz at Cannes in May, and was subsequently a hit at the Midnight Madness section of the Toronto International Film Festival in September. Directed by a ...

From LIAM LACEY, Globe and Mail,  14 Nov 2008

How Danny Boyle made Slumdog a slam dunk

British filmmaker Danny Boyle's most recent film, Slumdog Millionaire, which opened on Wednesday Nov. 12, is an extreme example of triumph torn from defeat. Shot in Mumbai, India, in the midst of crowds, occasionally defying official permits, the film, ...

From LIAM LACEY, Globe and Mail,  13 Nov 2008

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