Tricks of the Documentary Trade: The Non-Fiction Twist

November 6, 2014

Twists are typical of fiction, but as Jason Gorber writes, non-fiction filmmaking can reveal some devastating surprises.

Books, Beats, and Birds: This Season’s “Honest” Characters

October 30, 2014

Andrew Parker looks at three recent films that openly discuss the nature in which artists perceive harsh and brutal criticism.

The Day I Discovered Stanley Kubrick

October 23, 2014

Peter Howell reflects on the first time he saw 2001: A Space Odyssey. “We were all suitably awed by the Glendale’s huge curved screen, which is still the most impressive one I’ve ever seen.”

I’ll Take That, Thanks: Genre Films and Horror Hybridity

October 16, 2014

As much fun as their gene-splicing, cliché-mashing and shameless pilfering can be, genre filmmakers may have become worryingly risk-averse. With Toronto After Dark 2014 creeping its way into town, Jason Anderson looks at Wyrmwood and Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter as examples of a mongrelized tradition defined by cross-pollination

Music and Lyrics: God Help the Girl and True Stories

October 9, 2014

“Some pop songs feel like short films.” Adam Nayman explores musicians who have also turned to filmmaking.

Sleeping with the Enemy: Gone Girl and the challenge of movies about marriage and murder

October 2, 2014

Jason Anderson dissects the wreckage that results when two people who’ve pledged to love and care for one another instead come to feel very differently about the person on the other side of the bed.