Just across the shores of Lake Ontario, our neighbors to the north host one of the largest and most prestigious film festivals in the world: the Toronto International Film Festival. TIFF came to a close this past weekend, and this year’s lineup had plenty of cinematic goodies to offer, a number of which will be rolling out to theaters before the year comes to a close.
Movie Reviews
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Film Review: “Fury”
No one doubts that war is Hell, but for Hollywood it remains good cinema. Perhaps because of the passage of time, or because of the rise of the comic-book superhero flicks with all their excessive effects, World War II, the obvious favorite for war films, rarely appears on the screen. The violence and brutality of […]
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Film Review: “Draft Day”
As he has demonstrated in a number of movies, Kevin Costner is the best athlete in Hollywood. Unlike, say, Gary Cooper in “Pride of the Yankees,” Anthony Perkins in “Fear Strikes Out,” or Robert De Niro in “Bang the Drum Slowly,” Costner played a most credible brand of baseball in “Field of Dreams,” “For Love […]
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Film Review: “Captain America: The Winter Soldier”
As all students of the form know, World War II contributed enormously to the success of the comic books that flourished in the America of the past. Characters like Blackhawk and his international squadron, the Boy Commandos, and Wonder Woman often faced various threats from the Axis Powers; some critics have even suggested that Superman […]
