Film + TV

Lives keep bouncing off each other, every choice threatening those left standing, in the staggering The Place Beyond The Pines. Ryan Gosling offers yet another brilliant performance, this time playing a shade of his character from Drive—a talented motorcyclist filled with violence who begins robbing banks to provide for the infant son he didn’t know […]

Danny Boyle’s hypnosis heist caper, Trance, crams an overload of the director’s trademark flourishes into a belaboured screenplay until the entire enterprise falls apart. James McAvoy stars as an auctioneer who suffers from a bout of amnesia after crooks attempt to steal a priceless painting. Which is a problem, as the thieves would like to […]

A substance abuse recovery and Christian-redemption film, Home Run is a yawn of a parable, barely made into a movie. Baseball hotshot Corey Brand is forced to spend his suspension for a DUI coaching a loveable team of misfit kids back in his sleepy hometown. Produced in partnership with both the National Fatherhood Institute and […]

Tom Cruise does his best WALL-E impression, cleaning up a ravaged Earth while dreaming about love, in the sci-fi blockbuster Oblivion. When aliens invaded 50 years ago, humanity went for a scorched earth approach and nuked their own planet. Now, the survivors live off-world, while engineer Jack Harper (Cruise) stays behind repairing drones and helping […]

Is there a movie where nuclear bombs aren’t a metaphor for personal crisis? Certainly not Ginger & Rosa, the overreaching little film by Sally Porter. Ginger (Elle Fanning) is a redheaded teenager raised by a sorrowful mom and a peace activist dad in 1962 London. As Ginger and her best friend Rosa protest the growing […]

[IMAGE-1] A franchise continues in Scary Movie 5. The latest approximation of an actual movie that spoofs and goofs whatever’s lying around the house. This time around, Lindsay Lohan, Charlie Sheen, Benny Hill, Paranormal Activity, Evil Dead, Mama, Snoop Dogg, The Cabin in the Woods, Morgan Freeman, Black Swan, Heather Locklear, Rise of the Planet […]

Jackie Robinson breaks major league baseball’s colour barrier in the routine, but charismatic 42. Brooklyn Dodgers owner Branch Rickey (a blubbering crank of a Harrison Ford) decides to stir the pot by hiring a negro player, against the advice and threats of his league, his advisors and most of the baseball-attending public. Playing in the […]

Those unfamiliar with the original may shrug off this remake of Evil Dead as a sub-par Cabin in the Woods knockoff. Unfortunately, they’d be right. Over thirty years since the original, director Fede Alvarez updates the classic tale of five young adults travelling to an isolated cabin who awake a demonic presence. Some of Sam […]

Universities receive thousands of applications every year, so its best for the Princeton staff in Admission not to get too attached to any one candidate. Pity then Tina Fey, starring as an overworked admissions officer who inadvertently discovers a promising college applicant might be the son she gave up for adoption decades ago. Paul Rudd […]