“It’s silly wasting time on something that doesn’t matter,” says a dreamy young woman with a fondness for balloons (Grace Van Patten) to an embittered and unemployed young man turned would-be detective named Sam (Andrew Garfield) in writer-director David Robert Mitchell’s surreal new film, Under the Silver Lake. It’s one of those almost throwaway lines […]
Author: Shane Scott-Travis
Freaks – VIFF 2018 Review
The best part of the overly ambitious sci-fi thriller Freaks is Bruce Dern as a creepy Mr. Snowcone ice cream man. At least, that’s what he appears to be at first, before too much plot overpowers a story that would work well as a graphic novel, but on the big screen it’s too much of […]
Sicilian Ghost Story – VIFF 2018 Review
Newcomer Julia Jedlikowska wonderfully portrays the naive, tender, and somewhat somnambulistic teen Luna, who pines for and later will try to extricate her dreamy classmate Giuseppe (Gaetano Fernandez, also making his screen debut), in Italian directors Fabio Grassadonia and Antonio Piazza’s haunting, rhythmic and slowburning new movie, Sicilian Ghost Story. Early on in this hard-hearted […]
The Sisters Brothers – VIFF 2018 Review
French filmmaker Jacques Audiard (2009’s A Prophet, 2015’s Dheepan) may not seem the obvious choice to make the big screen adaptation of Patrick deWitt’s beloved, prize-winning 2011 historical novel about a pair bickering siblings who earn a living as hitmen in the Wild West of the 1850’s. In fact, reading deWitt’s “The Sisters Brothers”, with […]
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25 Movies You Won’t Want to Miss at VIFF 2018
Now in its 37th year, the 2018 edition of the Vancouver International Film Festival (September 27th – October 12th, 2018) just may be the brightest, most eclectic and engaging cinematic celebration yet. Among the five largest film festivals in North America with screenings from 70 countries, VIFF promises to have something intriguing and exciting for […]
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10 Great Recent Sci-fi Movies You May Have Missed
It’s fair to say that sci-fi cinema has enjoyed a renaissance in recent years. Once deemed fodder for children and little more, science fiction has lost its baby teeth, grown up, and gotten big and this has never been more evident than in the last few years with big hits like Arrival (2016), Gravity (2013), […]