In its glorious and barreling 87 minutes, Anderson and Baumbach, have taken the gist of Dahl’s book and carefully expanded it into everything you would expect it to be.
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Directed by Wes Anderson
Wes Anderson joins Spike Jonze in adapting a much beloved children’s literature in the same year. First Jonze delivered with Maurice Sendak’s [...]
A certain instructor at film school once confided in me that no filmmaker ever made real money off a short film. At the time, I respected his honest opinion, and while he may (or may not) have been right about making “real” money, that doesn’t mean short films are worthless. For evidence, I present to [...]
Currently enrolled in Concordia University’s Film Studies program, Tim Buschhaus is ecstatic to finally receive documentation proving how much he loves film. That one sheet of paper, cleverly reading ‘Bachelors…Film Studies’ awaits, as does the next review. Always watching movies, and now finally being able to write about them, Sound on Sight will be [...]
Roman Polanski, Polish filmmaker, could very well be released from Swiss jail after more than a thirty yearlong court battle. In 1977 Polanski was accused of having unlawful sex with a 13-year-old girl he was doing a photo shoot with. The shoot took place in Jack Nicholson’s house, and was Polanski’s second with the girl.
He [...]
Francis Lawrence, director of I Am Legend, must have a thing for “end of the world as we know it” movies. And his latest endeavor is no exception. According to Pajiba, Lawrence has elected to direct a movie adaptation based on a young adult graphic novel called In The Small by Michael Hague.
The plot of [...]
Completely entertaining and dripping with fan appreciated details, Watchmen is a gift to comic book nerds and film enthusiasts alike.
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Watchmen: Director’s Cut
Directed by Zach Synder
Trying to determine the value of a film based on a book (or graphic novel in this case), is a dangerous undertaking. Separating the downfalls and offering credit can be near impossible [...]
Review of Amreeka
Directed by Cherien Dabis
There is an obvious correlation between the 2003 invasion of Iraq and the rise in Islamaphobia across the United States. Arabs (or anyone Arab-looking) who had already established their lives in the States before that year suddenly found themselves the target of racial prejudice, and those who would [...]
Some have hailed him as the world’s greatest filmmaker – so why, newcomers might ask, does his name grace the director’s slot on what appears to be a direct-to-video cop thriller from 1995? Werner Herzog’s Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans graced our screens this past weekend, so Simon, Mariko and returning guest Derek [...]
Like many classic horror archetypes, the werewolf can represent a wide variety of themes, from uncontrollable lust, to humanity’s bestial nature, to how First Nations men are apparently savage wife beaters too primitive to wear clothes. Guess which one applies to New Moon, the latest film adaptation of Stephenie Meyers’ Twilight series. Tonight, Sound on [...]
Director Tim Burton is being featured at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City with his own exhibition starting this month. The exhibit will feature work ranging from his more junior years as a teen, right through work he did in college and including sketches, props and models from movies he has made [...]
For Kenneth Broadway, one bachelor’s degree wasn’t enough. So after the four grueling years it took to earn his B.A. in English and three years more trying to figure out something to do with it, he ignored the prudent advice of some very erudite professors who encouraged him to go to grad school and instead [...]
How well do you know your Harry Potter trivia? Does the name Nicholas Flamel ring any bells? He was the alchemist responsible for “the Sorcerer’s Stone” in the title of the inaugural Harry Potter book and movie adaptation, but Flamel is more than a J.K. Rowling creation. He was an actual alchemist who born in [...]
The Twilight Saga: New Moon
Directed by Chris Weitz
Are we to expect more from a feature film than from an average episode of a daytime soap? That’s one of many questions to be begged not only of casual moviegoers but of even the most hardened fan of Stephenie Meyer’s socially negligent Twilight series as they take [...]
A true action hero, Arnold Schwarzenegger is also the ultimate source of classically terrible and amazing films. Forget G.I. Joe, Schwarzenegger is the real American hero proving that in America it’s as easy to have a lucrative film career without talent or experience as it is to be a senator of a major state without [...]
Confession: I enjoy things that are so bad they’re good so much that when it comes to television I honestly can’t differentiate between the bad and the good. With the success of shows like Rock of Love (now on it’s third season) it would appear that the worst you make a show [...]
