Trigger warning: story includes rape (offscreen) and forgiveness. Incendies is a Quebec film, in French and Arabic with subtitles, that has only recently been released in Quebec after playing at TIFF and the Venice International Film Festival. It has already been selected as Canada’s entry for next year’s Foreign Language Oscar, so hopefully it will see some sort of wider release and more people will [...]
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I was pleased that the film adaptation of John Marsden’s YA novel Tomorrow, When the War Began was quite faithful to the book. What I liked. The visuals of film actually do more justice to Ellie If-It-Has-Wheels-I-Can-Drive-It Linton than the book. (Vehicles driven: tractor, 4WD, motorbike, garbage truck and fuel tanker.) Likewise, when Ellie and Fiona blow up the bridge at the end of the [...]
Jennifer Kesler has written already about the new Angelina Jolie film, Salt, and the fear expressed by the filmmakers that having a male love interest rescued by a female lead is too castrating to his character. She quotes: In the end, Salt’s husband, played by German actor August Diehl (‘Inglourious Basterds’), was made tough enough that he didn’t need saving, thank you much. However, in [...]
The new Julia Roberts movie, Eat Pray Love, came out this weekend. While it’s largely getting not-so-good reviews, Patrick Goldstein of the L.A. Times asks “What does this say about U.S. manhood: Male critics actually like ‘Eat Pray Love’: In short, once you factor in that the guys outnumber the women in the critical trade, the women who liked the movie (including my colleague, Betsy [...]
Visually, Inception was spectacular. I want to say that straight out. In terms of plot? It is all right — the twist at the end’s predictable if you’re at all into SF, but it’s still a satisfying conclusion, and offers enough brain-teasers and world-building to satisfy my nerdy sweet-tooth. I’ll do my best to limit the number of spoilers, but there might be a couple. [...]
Note: Kim Hollingsworth, John Ibrihim, etc., are real people who are still alive. I have no idea how realistic their portrayal in Underbelly: The Golden Mile is; this critique is of the way people and events were portrayed in the show and in no way is intended to reflect on any real people. While we at Hathor encourage debate of both the series and the [...]
Salt stars Angelina Jolie. I hardly knew what this film was about until a few days ago! But I am glad I found out about it. Some of you might remember my review of The Long Kiss Goodnight, which starred Geena Davis as a kick-butt assassin who finds her inner maternal side without sacrificing her kick-assness. In Salt, Jolie stars as a super-spy. She starts [...]
