April 20, 2010
Funny People is funny, touching and rings true, even through all its comic exaggeration. Apatow's direction is poised and appropriate to the subject matter.
January 26, 2011
In The Man from Nowhere, after a neighbour's daughter is abducted by drug dealers, Tae-shik will stop at nothing to save her.
November 28, 2010
Legend goes that The Devils was considered so extreme in its time that it was banned in North America and never distributed on home video here.
October 17, 2013
Shield of Straw My first film at Fantasia in 2013 was Takashi Miike’s Shield of Straw, one of the director’s contribution to the festival. Miike is a known workhorse, directing sometimes three films per year, in a myriad of genres and styles. Yet, there seems to be a connecting thread through his films, which feels harder to ascertain for me […]
April 20, 2010
Fur, from director Steven Shainberg, is a deeper exploration of sexually non-normative behaviour and longing for companionship.