Film + TV

The Campaign, directed by Jay Roach (Austin Powers, Meet the Parents), takes American politics to the gutter, reaping a flawed system for comedic profit. An undefeated North Carolina congressman, Cam Brady (Will Ferrell), comes up against Marty Huggins (Zach Galifianakis), a puppet of two CEOs looking to exploit a lucrative opportunity, and the battle ensues. […]

For those who haven’t recently watched The Bourne trilogy, it would be a bit of a leap to watch Tony Gilroy’s The Bourne Legacy. Aaron Cross (Jeremy Brenner—he’s no Matt Damon) has a parallel story to Bourne’s (who’s mentioned, but isn’t a character), fleeing assassination by his own bosses at the CIA. Marta Shearing (Rachel […]

Stranger Than Fiction blends with Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind in the new metafictional romance Ruby Sparks. Awkward author Calvin (There Will Be Blood‘s Paul Dano) finds a cure for his writer’s block imagining the most manic, pixiest, dreamiest girl possible. Which makes things pretty confusing when she shows up, fully formed as his […]

How late is too late to rekindle the flames of passion? That’s the question in the honest and surprisingly adult Hope Springs. Though married for 31 years, Kay (Meryl Streep) and Arnold (Tommy Lee Jones) have long ago drifted away from any sort of intimacy. Much to Arnold’s chagrin, Kay boldly signs the couple up […]

Sci-fi futurism gets smothered with banality in the barely remade Total Recall. Bored with having a steady job in a dystopian Earth that’s 98% uninhabitable, factory worker Quaid (a remarkably lifeless Colin Farrell) visits the memory-altering Rekall spa. A quick session to be the secret agent of his dreams later, and Quaid is being hunted […]

About as deep as the popular young adult pages that spawned it, the dorky humour of Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days isn’t entirely unpalatable. When his dad outlaws video games for the summer, socially awkward Greg decides to spend his days sneaking into the nearby country club for swimming, smoothies and potential smooches […]

Director Benh Zeitlin’s first feature, an adaptation of Lucy Alibar’s one act play, Juicy and Delicious, turns fantasy into reality. We see the world through six-year-old Hushpuppy’s (the captivating Quvenzhané Wallis) eyes, a tenacious girl who lives in the “Bathtub,” an area below a levee in the southern Delta, with her dying father, Wink (Dwight […]

It’s Ghostbusters meets The Burbs in the unfortunately flat alien invasion comedy The Watch. When a Costco security guard is gruesomely killed, manager Ben Stiller organizes a neighbourhood watch comprised of police force reject Jonah Hill, newcomer Richard Ayoade (The IT Crowd), and Vince Vaughn. Despite their bumbling ineffectualness, the foursome somehow uncover an alien […]

Flash mob theatrics and a dash of class politics spin together in the superficially fun Step Up: Revolution. This fourth film in the Step Up series finds classically trained dancer Emily (Kathryn McCormick of So You Think You Can Dance fame) moving to Miami with her development tycoon father. Emily soon falls for Sean (MMA […]

{image-1] Christopher Nolan’s third Batman installment is a fitting addition to its predecessors with its dark plot and aesthetic, picking up where the last left off. Gotham city’s elite are under threat by a “mercenary,” Bane (Tom Hardy)—like an Occupy Gotham, only the 99% forced into an uprising by a tyrant. Of course, Bruce Wayne […]