Mark Palermo

Neither wild nor sad enough and at a safe distance from pain.

Tags: Arts + Culture, On screens, Reviews, Nina Forever, Ben Blaine, Chris Blaine, Cassandra Sigsgaard, Cineplex Cinemas Parklane, Film + TV, Video

Director, screenwriter and former Coast film critic Mark Palermo grabbed the brass ring when he collaborated with Hollywood filmmaker Joseph Kahn on his new, uncatagorizable feature film, Detention, opening this weekend. Here’s how it all got done.

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The summer movie season is over, and though critics hated The Smurfs and Transformers, they were big hits. In response, Team Coast sounds off on movies they love that (almost) no one else does.

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The teenage sci-fi flick misses the mark with its alien-human relationships.

Tags: Arts + Culture, I Am Number Four, Film + TV, Video

Blu-ray or DVD, it doesn’t matter to our critics. It’s what’s on the screen that counts

Tags: Arts + Culture, Critics' Picks of the Year, Video