Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy Trailer

Here’s the trailer for Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy starring Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, Tom Hardy and John Hurt. The movie, set in the aftermath of the cold war, tells the tale of a spy-hunt within the highest echelons of the British Secret Intelligence Service. Continue reading to watch. Read more…
Mission Impossible Ghost Protocol Poster
I was under the impression that Mission Impossible Ghost Protocol was going to be used as a vehicle to usher out Tom Cruise as the star of the series and usher in Jeremy Renner as the new star. But, based on this new poster for the movie, it’s all Tom Cruise and nobody else.

Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, directed by Brad Bird, opens December 21st.
Comic-Con: Episode IV – A Fan’s Hope Review

Comic-Con: Episode IV – A Fan’s Hope follows a group of people — dreamers you might say — who attend the San Diego Comic-Con.
The movie starts by giving us a little history of the Con, dating back to it’s humble beginnings in 1970, and how it started out as this small convention geared toward a relatively small percentage of people that has now grown into this world-famous event that is attended by more than one hundred thousand people over the course of a single weekend every summer. Read more…
The Deep Blue Sea Movie Review

The Deep Blue Sea stars Rachel Weisz as Hester Collyer who, as the movie opens, is about to commit suicide. She is discovered before any real damage can be done, but the mystery surrounding her decision remains. As the story unfolds, so does the mystery. Read more…
A Dangerous Method Movie Review

A Dangerous Method stars Michael Fassbender as Carl Jung, Viggo Mortensen as Sigmund Freud and Kiera Knightley as the woman who comes between them. Read more…
Take This Waltz Movie Review

Take This Waltz marks Canadian Sarah Polley’s return as writer and director. The movie stars Michelle Williams as Margot, a woman who writes for pamphlets. She is out on assignment, where she meets a man named Daniel. There is a spark between the two when they meet, share and airplane and later a taxi home where she discovers that he (remarkably) lives across the street from her in a local Toronto neighborhood. This presents a problem considering she is happily married to Lou (Seth Rogen) who is in the middle of writing a chicken cookbook titled “Tastes Like Chicken”. (I don’t know how that is relevant to this review, but I thought it was mildly amusing enough to share…) Read more…
The Descendants Movie Review

Every year at the Toronto International Film Festival, one movie captures my imagination enough to make me think it has a shot at Oscar gold. This year, that movie is Alexander Payne’s The Descendants. Read more…
The Awakening Movie Review

Set in the early 1920s, The Awakening stars Rebecca Hall (The Town) as Florence Cathcart, a woman who makes her living debunking ghost stories. She has written a somewhat famous book on the subject, and it is this book that is responsible for getting her called to a remote boarding school where there are reports of sightings of a “phantom boy”. Read more…






