• February 28, 2025
• At Home, Drama, Thriller

Harrowing, ripped-from-the-headlines stories of survival are inherently cinematic. Extraordinary stories of heroic folks pulling together to save others, whether dozens of trapped miners, or in this case, a single...

• March 10, 2023
• At Home, Comedy

This plot has been tread and retread in countless feel-good sports comedies: A down on his luck jerk of a coach is matched with a ragtag group of underdog...

• July 5, 2017
• At Home, Comedy

Based on the graphic novel of the same name by Daniel Clowes, the film centers on an eccentric, curmudgeonly and filter-less odd duck named Wilson (Woody Harrelson), who lives...

• March 22, 2014
• At Home, Drama

I wasn’t sure what to expect from Out of the Furnace. From the trailers, it looked like a revenge thriller, with shaggy Christian Bale toting a rifle to hunt...

• September 23, 2013
• At Home, Crime, Drama, Mystery

Woody Harrelson, doing his best “aw-shucks” American persona, and Emily Mortimer (flawlessly hiding her British accent) play Roy and Jessie, a married American couple returning home from a save-the-children...

• May 27, 2008
• Film Festivals

Per the recommendation of my TIFF’n pals Eric and Vickie, I picked up at ticket to the British drama Boy A (7/8). I didn’t know much about the film...

• May 23, 2008
• Film Festivals

Shoot, it seems like a couple months ago that SIFF just ended, but here we are at the beginning of a new, month-long orgy of movie-ness that is The...