Movies, The Coast Halifax

Star Trek Into Darkness

Jacob Boon — Thu, 23 May 2013 04:00:00 -0300

True love and a super terrorist by Jacob Boon A love story between Kirk/Spock (Chris Pine/Zachary Quinto) barely gussied up as summer blockbuster, Star Trek Into Darkness finds the crew of the Enterprise on the hunt for a super-strong terrorist (Benedict Cumberbatch, thankfully) who's waging a one-man war on the Federation. Pine and Quinto (Pinto?), refreshing in their first outing, already feel stale in roles that ratchet ever more towards imitation.…

The Company You Keep

Jacob Boon — Thu, 23 May 2013 04:00:00 -0300

Journalism! by Jacob Boon Journalists can be such insufferable pricks sometimes. Or so thinks the former domestic terrorist trying to put his past behind him in the quite watchable The Company You Keep.…

Mud

Jacob Boon — Thu, 23 May 2013 04:00:00 -0300

Heartbreak, a coming-of-age tale and a kid named Neckbone by Jacob Boon The simplicity of childhood gets washed away in Mud, a Mark Twain-like boys' adventure fable. When fourteen-year-old Ellis and his best friend Neckbone (a name that never ceases to be entertaining) investigate an abandoned boat, stranded high up in a tree after a devastating flood, the boys find a mysterious drifter whose name is Mud (Matthew McConaughey).…

To the Wonder

Jacob Boon — Thu, 09 May 2013 04:00:00 -0300

Three's a crowd, Javier by Jacob Boon King of the summer blockbusters, Terrence Malick returns with a vengeance in the broody slab of melancholia, To the Wonder. Olga Kurylenko is a French ex-pat brought to small town America with her precocious daughter by stoic boyfriend Ben Affleck.…

The Great Gatsby

Jacob Boon — Thu, 09 May 2013 04:00:00 -0300

Opulent parties and desperate anguish by Jacob Boon F. Scott Fitzgerald's American classic gets the splashy 3D adaptation no one was particularly asking for in Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby.…

Tyler Perry Presents: Peeples

Jacob Boon — Thu, 09 May 2013 04:00:00 -0300

Likeable and funny cast were actually allowed to be likeable and funny by Jacob Boon Everyone involved in Tyler Perry Presents: Peeples, a lacklustre meet-the-parents romantic comedy, deserves some sort of medal for keeping out anything even resembling Perry's trademark cinematic poison. Regular guy Wade (ever loveable Craig Robinson) crashes his girlfriend's family reunion in the Hamptons to ask for her hand in marriage, only to find that his lady love (Kerry Washington) has kept their relationship a secret from her overprotective daddy (national treasure David Alan Grier).…

Blackbird

Jacob Boon — Thu, 02 May 2013 04:00:00 -0300

Raw and seething by Jacob Boon Jason Buxton's locally-made, festival darling finally comes to theatres in the earnest depiction of youth justice, Blackbird. Teenager Sean Randall is your typical outsider goth.…

Still Mine

Jacob Boon — Thu, 02 May 2013 04:00:00 -0300

Uncluttered, clean and true by Jacob Boon It's man versus bureaucracy in a stunning true tale from New Brunswick, Still Mine. Elderly farmer Craig Morrison (a dressed-down James Cromwell) just wants to build a small house for his Alzheimer's stricken wife, the project offering a welcome usefulness in his autumn years.…

Iron Man 3

Jacob Boon — Thu, 02 May 2013 04:00:00 -0300

Flimsy plot, superstrong suit by Jacob Boon Tony Stark squares off against his greatest foe to date—panic attacks—in the inevitable Iron Man 3. After saving the planet from cyborg zombie aliens in The Avengers, Stark (the getting-a-little-old-for-this Robert Downey Jr.) retreats to his workshop to tinker with his fantastical toys.…

The Sapphires

Jacob Boon — Thu, 02 May 2013 04:00:00 -0300

Needs more sparkle by Jacob Boon A somewhat true story is hacked up and spit out as superficial feel-good '60s melodrama in the disappointing Australian movie, The Sapphires. Three Aboriginal sisters (and their light-skinned cousin) with some golden pipes get the chance of a lifetime when a washed up producer (Chris O'Dowd) helps them tour USO shows during the Vietnam War.…

The Colony

Jacob Boon — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 04:00:00 -0300

Begging for the MST3K treatment by Jacob Boon A sci-fi movie of the week somehow ends up at your local cinema in the embarrassing Canadian horror film, The Colony. In a future where artificial weather has blocked out the sun, blanketing the planet in constant snowfall, a small group of survivors huddle together in an isolated bunker.…

The Big Wedding

Jacob Boon — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 04:00:00 -0300

I'd like a large popcorn with butter and cognitive dissonance, please by Jacob Boon One of the more cognitively dissonant films in theatres, The Big Wedding is an astounding train wreck of a romantic comedy. When their adopted son's biological mother comes from Columbia for her child's wedding, divorced parents Robert De Niro and Diane Keaton must pretend to still be married lest they offend the Roman Catholic's strict morals.…

The Disappeared

Jacob Boon — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 04:00:00 -0300

Powerful and raw by Jacob Boon It's tempting to call The Disappeared a mixture of The Perfect Storm and survival-horror one-note Open Water. Doing so would give you a sense of how the unflinching film follows six fishermen adrift in the North Atlantic.…

Pain & Gain

Jacob Boon — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 04:00:00 -0300

Dimwitted dudes with shiny muscles by Jacob Boon Michael Bay proves himself as disastrous with "small pictures" as he is with blockbusters in Pain & Gain—the beach bod true crime flick that's oozing with machismo. Based on the Sun Gym gang Miami murders, P&G finds a pumped up Mark Wahlberg as a dimwitted personal trainer who "believes in fitness."…

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