Tag: canadian film
BlackBerry
Friday, August 25th, 2023 Film Reviews,We’ve recently entered a new world of cinema in which product placement is the entire rationale for a movie. No longer is it sufficient for a character to swig a wellknown softdrink or flash an expensive watch – now the softdrink or the watch are the heroes of the film. We learn about their inventors’ […]
Death of a Ladies Man
Friday, May 21st, 2021 Film Reviews,It’s fair to say that Canadian director, Matt Bissonnette, is a Leonard Cohen fan. His debut feature in 2002 was called Looking for Leonard, and now comes Death of a Ladies Man, inspired by Cohen’s album of 1977. I’m not quite sure how an album, or the title of an album, gets transformed into a […]
Monsieur Lazhar
Saturday, September 15th, 2012 Film Reviews, Other Writing,One approaches Monsieur Lazhar with the knowledge it has won numerous awards and gathered plaudits all over the world. If this wasn’t enough to raise one’s suspicions, the fact that the film was made in Canada is another cause for alarm. I don’t think any country is more adept at producing movies that promise so […]
Ecstasy
Saturday, April 28th, 2012 Film Reviews, Other Writing,Danny Boyle’s Trainspotting was one of the more orginal films of 1996. It was a powerful insight into the drug scene, a slab of grimy Scottish realism, and the first time many people saw that talented actor, Ewan McGregor. The film was based on a novel by cult author, Irvine Welsh, who enjoyed a brief […]