Tag: danbeirne

We talk perhaps a bit too much about films that are 'love letters to cinema', a term adorned too widely. Instead, maybe what we need a more odes to the cinephile. I count myself among that group, but then perhaps...

How's this for an odd statement:  A Canadian comedy about a high school kid who believes he is the reincarnation of Leon Trotsky took the Audience Award at the Tokyo International Film Festival this year.  That Canadians would make a...

[Our thanks to Andrew David Long for the following review.]Leon Bronstein (Jay Baruchel) has a destiny: as the reincarnation of Leon Trotsky, he's going to live his life in parallel to his antecedent's path, up to and including his assassination...