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Review: EVEREST Tackles Disaster With Diplomacy At The Top Of The World

Icelandic filmmaker Baltasar Kormakur tackles his largest Hollywood project to-date, with this epically staged account of the 1996 Mount Everest disaster, in which eight climbers perished on the Himalayan peak in a single day. Featuring a robust ensemble cast and...

Gyllenhaal, Brolin, Clarke And Hawkes Head Up The Hill And Down Again In First EVEREST Trailer

Iceland's Baltasar Kormakur takes an all star cast (Jake Gyllenhaal, Josh Brolin, Jason Clarke, John Hawkes, Keira Knightley, Robin Wright, Sam Worthington, Emily Watson) up the world's tallest peak in upcoming survival thriller Everest. With a title like that the...

Review: THE IMITATION GAME Cannot Live Up To Its Inherent Drama

From a British nation that has had its fair share of scientific geniuses, it's perhaps no surprise that the life and work of Alan Turing has spawned its fair share of dramatic works. There have been TV versions, drama/docs, and...

Toronto 2014 Review: THE IMITATION GAME Falls More Than A Bit Flat

From a British Nation that has had its fair share of scientific geniuses, it's perhaps no surprise that the life and work of Alan Turing has spawned its fair share of dramatic works. There have been TV versions, drama/docs, and...

Review: BEGIN AGAIN Reinvents The Movie Musical With A Little Bit Of Street Magic

I know magic when I see it, when I feel it, when I hear it. John Carney's marvelously understated, dexterously graceful Begin Again contains at least three sequences that are absolutely, unexpectedly magical. Frankly, after a single viewing, I'm not...

Review: JACK RYAN: SHADOW RECRUIT Starts Strong Before Becoming A Preposterous Mess

There's something to be said for the throwback spy genre flick. Throw in a bit of black-ops mischief, some clever subterfuge, and a bunch of nifty maneuvering and you occasionally get quite a fun cinematic experience. Naturally, the collapse of...

Blu-ray Review: A DANGEROUS METHOD

There was a time when the name "David Cronenberg" conjured a singular style. He built his name on a specific type of body horror no one else could approach. Back to his very earliest films, he examined the duality between...

NYFF 2011: A DANGEROUS METHOD Review

During yesterday's press conference at Lincoln Center, director David Cronenberg insisted he doesn't think about his past pictures while engaged in the making of a new one. That doesn't mean that audiences, and more specifically his legions of fans--and I'm...

TIFF 2011: A DANGEROUS METHOD Review

Perhaps the film I most anticipated at this year's TIFF, it stands to follow that David Cronenberg's fictionalized treatment of the interaction between Sigmund Freud, Carl Gustav Jung and Sabina Spielrein is my first major disappointment. But mine is not...

LONDON BOULEVARD Review

For his directorial debut, the Oscar-winning writer of THE DEPARTED, William Monahan opts for another gangster tale, this time adapting Ken Bruen's cockney gangster novel LONDON BOULEVARD. The story centres around Mitchell (Colin Farrell), a newly released convict looking...

Cronenberg's A DANGEROUS METHOD Finds a Home with Sony Pictures Classics

It's pretty hard not to be excited about David Cronenberg's upcoming period drama starring Viggo Mortensen as Sigmund Freud, Michael Fassbender as Carl Jung and Keira Knightley as the girl in the middle. We've been waiting a while but news...

A Trio Of Stills From Cronenberg's A DANGEROUS METHOD

After a handful of on-set spy shots the first trio of actual stills from David Cronenberg's upcoming A Dangerous Method have turned up recently and while they don't provide much in terms of action they do give a fantastic...

First Look At Mortensen And Fassbender As Freud And Jung In Cronenberg's A DANGEROUS METHOD

Well, now. Any film smart enough to cast Viggo Mortensen and Michael Fassbender as its leads is a film with fantastic taste regardless of any other factors but take a look at the photo above to get a glimpse of...