On a dark and rainy night a few years ago I attended an 11pm screening of Eraserhead at Cinema du Parc, my favorite source for late night cult classics. Afterwards I popped into the bathroom with a full bladder and made my way into one of the stalls. Two guys walked in while I was [...]
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Monsters and aliens have been a staple of science fiction and horror films since the birth of cinema, bursting out of the chests and feasting on the innards of countless big screen victims. Which is why it makes perfect sense to include them in a children’s movie, provided you [...]
Adventureland
2009, USA
Directed by: Greg Mottola
Written by: Greg Mottola
Starring: Jesse Eisenberg, Kirstin Stewart, Bill Hader, Kirstin Wiig, Martin Starr, Michael Zegen
Based on his own real life experience working summers at an amusement park in Long Island, NY, Greg Mottola’s follow up to last summer’s sleeper hit Superbad is a poignant and touching male coming of age [...]
Cult Cinema: Volume 4
David Lynch films are a litmus test of intelligence. You don’t have to like them to prove that your cinematic IQ is above the level of a mouth-breather with a Vin Diesel DVD collection. But you do have to realize the films’ artistic merit. And then give lengthy interpretations of their leitmotifs [...]
My Bloody Valentine 3D, released in early January of this year, was just the first of a parade of 3D films to be released in 2009. The remake of the 1981 cult classic with a budget of $15 million went on to gross over $67 million at the box office. Although the film received mixed [...]
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Welcome to the house Apatow built – the comedic landscape forged by director/writer/producer Judd Apatow, who in a few short years went from a pop-culture reject (with two quickly-cancelled TV series and a flopped film to his name) to Hollywood’s most consistently successful – and well-received – purveyor of [...]
Sorority Row (2009)
Directed by Stewart Hendler
Starring Briana Evigan, Leah Pipes, Rumer Willis
Thursday trailers are discussed the following Monday on the next Sound on Sight podcast.
Where The Wild Things Are (2009)
Directed by Spike Jonze
Starring Forest Whitaker, Catherine Keener and Paul Dano
Thursday trailers are discussed the following Monday on the Sound on Sight podcast.
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In the 1960s, French New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard helmed over 20 feature-length films (depending on whether or not you count films made by “collective”), with many of them now hailed as classics by elitist cineastes everywhere. Today on Sound on Sight, we attempt to dig into Godard’s [...]
Cult Cinema: Volume 3
In the 1950s, a group of French writers revolutionized film criticism with the magazine Cahiers du cinéma. By re-evaluating the films of Alfred Hitchcock, Howard Hawks, and John Hughes, among others, the critics gave birth to a grand unified ‘auteur theory,’ which positions the director as the ultimate creative force behind a [...]
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The term ‘Worldbuilding’ originates from science fiction literature, and refers to the laborious process of creating an imaginary universe from the ground up. Clearly, Australian director Alex Proyas is familiar with the concept. His breakthrough 1994 comic book adaptation The Crow was set in a urban fantasy world [...]
5 – The Ring (2002)
Considering I didn’t find the original scary, it’s impressive that I was thoroughly creeped out by the nearly shot-for-shot remake. There is always something a little more interesting in the exploration of the unknown, so if your senses have been dulled by the formulaic slasher film, then its quieter take on [...]
The Limits of Control (2009)
Directed by Jim Jarmush
Starring Bill Murray, Tilda Swinton, John Hurt and Gael Garcia Bernel
The story of a mysterious loner, a stranger in the process of completing a criminal job.
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It’s safe to say that our featured director for this week, Mr. Bruce McDonald, was responsible in large part for turning Toronto into a film lab in the early nineties. Winning Best Canadian Feature at TIFF for his first film, Road Kill, Bruce went on to accept the prize [...]
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Wes Craven is on the shortlist of modern horror movie masters, having cornered the market on innovative, genre-defining films since the 1970s. Few people have made as significant an impact on modern horror, directing landmark films that have set the tone for three separate decades of genre moviemaking. Unfortunately, directors [...]
