Articles in Canadian Movie Reviews
The Rocket: The Legend of Rocket Richard (2007) Movie Review
Sports movies in general have a formula they tend to follow in order to capture attention. First, they have to be about winners, otherwise most people don’t tend to give them any notice, at all. Who wants to cheer on a loser, right? Second, they have to have real conflict. Some are about the conflagration [...]
December 22nd, 2007 | Jodie Bass | 1 comment | Read MoreManufacturing Dissent (2007) Movie Review
When Debbie Melnyk and Nick Caine, two self-proclaimed progressive liberal filmmakers, set out to make a biography celebrating Michael Moore, they began as admirers and fans. After discovering a number of otherwise unknown facts about his documentaries, however, they ended up feeling, in their own words, ‘disappointed and disillusioned’. Provocative and thoughtful, their documentary “Manufacturing [...]
April 29th, 2007 | Christiaan Harden | 1 comment | Read MoreDeaden aka Pain Killer (2006) Movie Review
Originally titled “Pain Killer” (before a certain TV show got greenlit by the Sci Fi Channel), “Deaden” stars John Fallon as a former undercover cop who goes apeshit when his former bike gang invades his apartment, assaults him to within an inch of his life, rapes his pregnant wife with a baseball bat, cuts his [...]
December 12th, 2006 | Nix | 0 comments | Read MoreEnter: Zombie King (2003) Movie Review
There are certain films in which logic is some sort of abstract notion, something to be considered but never truly taken seriously. “Enter…Zombie King” is, beyond any shadow of a doubt, one of these films. It’s a giddy, weird effort that foregoes any attempts at reasonable thought in favor of giving the audience a wild [...]
December 15th, 2004 | Joseph Savitski | 0 comments | Read MoreNothing (2003) Movie Review
If there’s one thing about Canadian filmmaker Vincenzo Natali that you can take to the bank, it’s that the guy really, really likes to make movies that challenge him as a director. No one gets better mileage out of so little than Natali, who has done wonders with the resource-challenged “Cube”, the minimally budgeted “Elevated”, [...]
November 13th, 2004 | Nix | 0 comments | Read MoreGinger Snaps 3: The Beginning (2004) Movie Review
As a sequel to two cult favorites, “Ginger Snaps Back” (aka “Ginger Snaps 3: The Beginning”) is a 2½-star film. As a standalone movie without any ties to the series, it manages 3 stars. Unfortunately for the film, everyone knows it’s the third installment of Canada’s best horror franchise (or is that only horror [...]
August 3rd, 2004 | Nix | 0 comments | Read MoreElevated (1997) Movie Review
Canadian filmmaker Vincenzo Natali burst onto the movie scene with the release of “Cube”, but has since moved onto bigger (although not necessarily better) things ala the big-budgeted “Cypher”. “Elevated” is a 1997 short film by Natali, running 20 minutes total, with 3 of those minutes saved for end credits. It’s definitely a creative short, [...]
July 9th, 2004 | Nix | 0 comments | Read MoreGinger Snaps 2: Unleashed (2004) Movie Review
“Abandon hope all who enters.” This should be the tagline for the “Ginger Snaps” franchise because it fits the films to a “T”. There is almost no hope, no ray of light, not even a sparkle of possibility in any of the two films. And that’s exactly what makes them so different and just so [...]
February 7th, 2004 | Nix | 0 comments | Read MoreMeat Market 2 (2001) Movie Review
Paul Pedrosa, who plays the improbably named Shahrokh, gets a bullet in the head ala Fulci’s “Zombie” in “Meat Market 2’s”opening scene, thus depriving the viewer of the only actor in the whole “Meat Market” series who can actually act. This leaves us with Claire Westby as Lara Croft-wannabe Argenta and Alison Terriault as lesbian [...]
October 24th, 2003 | Nix | 0 comments | Read MoreNemesis Game (2003) Movie Review
Writer/director Jesse Warn’s “Nemesis Game” is a mild diversion. It’s not bad enough to be useless, but it’s also not quite good enough to surpass average. Wait, does that make sense? Well yes, if you’ve seen “Nemesis Game”, which stars Carly Pope as Sara, a college student who is searching for the meaning of life [...]
July 9th, 2003 | Nix | 0 comments | Read MoreMeat Market (2000) Movie Review
I know it’s something of a cheat to call Brian Clement’s zombie opus “Meat Market” a foreign film, since while the film is made by Canadians in (most likely) Canada, it’s not really a “Canadian movie”. The questionable cataloging of the movie aside, “Meat Market” is a no-budget Zombies Attack movie shot on video, and [...]
May 20th, 2003 | Nix | 0 comments | Read MoreBollywood/Hollywood (2002) Movie Review
Deepa Mehta’s “Bollywood/Hollywood” is so obviously a parody of Hollywood romantic comedies and Bollywood melodrama that once you realize this, everything else is irrelevant. Like the South Korean movie “Resurrection of the Little Match Girl”, “Bollywood/Hollywood” loses its charm as soon as you realize what the purpose of the movie is. Beyond this great “insight” [...]
May 9th, 2003 | Nix | 2 comments | Read More
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