The Lunchbox
An absolutely charming and moving story, set in modern day Mumbai, about love, loneliness, and…
Gabrielle
A lovely and well-acted story from, and set in, Quebec about a developmentally challenged young…
Oscar Shorts – Live Action
A very enjoyable package of the Oscar nominated short films for 2014 (Live Action), with…
Omar
This Palestinian entry for the foreign film Oscar – about a young Palestinian informant forced…
Lone Survivor
Based on a true story of a US special forces hunt for a notorious Taliban…
The Square
A behind-the-scenes documentary about the people and events in Cairo’s Tahrir Square in 2011. The…
Big Bad Wolves
An Israeli tale of the intersecting lives of a father out to avenge his daughter’s…
August: Osage County
I saw the Broadway play some years back and loved it, but I was disappointed…
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Unlike the first Captain America movie, which I found to be snooze-worthy, this one is…
The Past
From the director (Iranian Asghar Farhadi) of one of my favourite films of the last…
Gore Vidal: United States of Amnesia
I didn’t know very much about the life of public intellectual and writer Gore Vidal,…
The Monuments Men
Even George Clooney, Matt Damon, John Goodman, etc. can’t take this film to a level…
Particle Fever
Enjoyable and informative/educational documentary about the international large hadron collider project – scientists from around…
The Husband
A very off-beat Canadian film about a sad-sack kind of guy, raising his son alone…
Enemy
Jake Gyllenhaal, good as usual, plays a double role as an emotionally tired Toronto man…
Like Father, Like Son
Very slowly paced tale from Japan of two unrelated and unfamiliar to each other families…
The Book Thief
One could think that a tale of young girl in Nazi Germany, abandoned by her…
Bad Words
The premise is, of course, ridiculous: a 40 or so-old man enters, through a legal…
Tom at the Farm
This Quebec film -- about a gay man trying to cope after his lover dies…
Nymphomaniac: Volume I
Well, I definitely won’t be seeing part 2. I look forward to Lars Von Trier’s…
RoboCop
I enjoyed the original movie from years ago, but this remake left me flat. Uninteresting…
Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit
An updating of the Jack Ryan, CIA analyst, franchise, that manages to be boring while…