I went into this movie really wanting to like it, and hoping that it lived up to the praise that my old Canadian Studies professors had heaped onto it when I was in college. Citizen Gangster ended up being just about the best you could hope for out of a relatively low budget independent film;…
Different films offer different things for the viewer to take away from their experience. Some are for purely entertainment purposes, some have greater messages to send. However some films, and Good Neighbors fall into this category, are more about teaching a variety of smaller life lessons to live by. I enjoyed this film, not because…
An original story of men of action versus men of contemplation, Ontario-made The Man on the Train strikes a chord with me and might well for many others appreciative of a slow-moving drama. The film stars Donald Sutherland and Larry Mullen Jr. Perhaps it is my love of movies that are 95% conversationally based, perhaps it…
Despite my inexplicable love for horror movies, now that this Halloween season has ended I may just be inclined to give them a break for a couple of weeks. This should provide me with the opportunity to write a deeper and more cohesive review than that of a low-budget violent thriller. This week’s swing-and-a-miss was…
It’s been said before that a good horror movie is contingent upon having a group of idiots making idiotic decisions repeatedly, ultimately resulting in their demise. If we consider The Shrine, a 2010 film centered around an over-ambitious journalist, it should be noted that in some cases, only one of the characters needs to be…
Hey, this is Colin French. I’m a pessimist, satirist, and an underachiever as well as a former Canadian Studies major. I’ll be doing mostly Canadian films, and if at some point one slips in here that isn’t entirely made-in-Canada, well, then that just means you’re paying attention. Its a win-win situation. Each movie is somebody’s baby,…
Rooster Illusion 