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Hey, did you hear? It’s TIFF time! Welcome back to readers from past diaries and a big “well, hi!” to anyone surfing through for the first time. Please, grab yourself a cocktail or a coffee, kick your feet up and settle in for Moviepie’s annual coverage of Toronto’s magical...
I will fully admit that I had to close my eyes several times during The Bourne Ultimatum. Not because of graphic violence. Not because I feared I’d be unable to control myself in the face of Matt Damon’s rugged handsomeness. Not even because I reasoned that, if Julia Stiles...
Everyone knows that solar rays can be damaging, but the extent of the damage varies according to proximity, as the crew of Icarus II begins to realize during a deep-space mission to “reignite” the sun, which is slowly dying and threatening life on Earth as a result. Directed by...
Sweet mother of all that is good and pure in this world, Transformers is by far the best summer movie of the year. Hands. Down. Ahem, in short: I was transformed into a fan! It’s Michael Bay at his finest! It’s the best time you’ll have at theaters this...
Knocked Up is a surprisingly crass, way over-marketed movie about an oafish loser with chauvinistic tendencies, who gets a pretty girl pregnant after a drunken one-night stand… … and then remains an oafish loser with chauvinistic tendencies for almost the entire film as the mother of his child, completely...
Before watching Black Book, the Verhoeven film that I’d watched most recently was Showgirls—and I spent the two hours and eleven minutes that movie lasted wriggling around scandalized. Showgirls is an outrageous camp-fest with polystyrene characters, breasts all over the place, and possibly some of the worst dialogue in...
Susanne Bier’s last film, the sublime Brothers, dealt with the repercussions when a woman is forced to choose between two vastly different men. This time, the central figure is a man struggling to decide between living his old life or starting a new one. Jacob (Mads Mikkelsen) is an...
In what is an even finer example of lowest-common-denominator filmmaking than its insipid predecessor, Are We There Yet? (which, coincidentally, I also hated), this alleged “family film” dumbs itself down to new lows. Within the first five minutes alone, star Ice Cube winds up with his face smashed and...
I know what you’re thinking. You’re thinking, “Oh for the love of all that is holy, give me a freakin’ BREAK! Another preachy Hollywood movie about a white teacher going against the grain to `save’ a class full of delinquent minority students? It’s the same tired story being told...
That’s what I thought as I left the screening of Jennifer Garner’s painfully tepid and somewhat incoherent dramedy that, I think, is about finding yourself through the loss of another. But, to be perfectly honest, I’m not sure if that truly is the movie’s point because I spent much...
Dear Moviepie’s Eric, OHHHHmuhGAWD. My dear friend, my sweet boy, drop whatever you’re doing. Turn off ANTM, put away the green slop and get thee to the nearest theater playing Ghost Rider because you must, YOU ABSOLUTELY MUST, behold its gloriously loathsome splendor for yourself. In person. Immediately. As...
Based on his own memoirs, Monteil’s drama is told in profanity-laden (seriously, I wonder how man f**ks are in this film!) flashback by an adult Dito (Robert Downey Jr.), an author who returns to the neighborhood after years of estrangement from his parents and friends. The bulk of the...
