P.S. I LOVE YOU (Warner) Hilary Swank runs the emotional gamut in Richard LaGravenese’s button-pushing weepie, going from sexy and self-possessed (in scenes with her boyfriend, played by Gerard Butler) to deflated and depressed (after he succumbs to a fatal brain tumour) to perky and resolute (after receiving his elaborate...
Read Full StoryThe Red Balloon + White Mane + Paddle to the Sea (Criterion Collection/Paradox) An unusual but very welcome trio of reissues from Criterion, all three of these shorts demonstrate the level of ...
Even if its upwardly mobile NYC protagonists seem to have stepped out of a Captain Morgan commercial, Matt Reeves’ Godzilla-gone-handheld thriller quickly works itself into a cold sweat: as a ...
JUNO (Fox) + LARS AND THE REAL GIRL (Sony) The differing fortunes of last fall’s two most critically favoured comedies are discernible from their respective treatments on DVD. The snarky ...
In addition to spawning the year’s unlikeliest catchphrase (not since the heyday of Kelis has discussion of frosty summertime beverages so permeated the cultural landscape), Paul Thomas Anderson’s oilman-gone-mad ...
Weird and eminently watchable, this double-disc set collects three encounters between former Beatles and Tom Snyder, a man whose blunder-filled but oddly effective interviewing style make him seem like a cross between...
THE KITE RUNNER (Dreamworks) Marc Forster’s adaptation of Khaled Hosseini’s much-admired novel about an expatriate Afghani writer who returns home to face down his past (and the Taliban) cuts a tasteful swath ...
Southland Tales + Revolver (Sony) Two daringly and fatally overambitious movies make video debuts, having gone unreleased theatrically in Canada due to the deadliest of bad buzz.
If form = content, then No Country For Old Men is every inch the masterpiece its supporters (and there are a lot of them, from high-end critics to movie-poster blurb-meisters to those cutting-edge folks at the ...
Blood +: Part One (Sony) Teenage girl discovers she’s the latest in an ancient lineage of vampire hunters, struggles to protect her family and friends, and harbours unease over her own killer instincts — OK, I ...