I had the opportunity to talk to Van Royko, co-director and cinematographer of Let There Be Light, an uplifting documentary about fusion technology. Together, director Mila Aung-Thwin and Royko created a visually stunning, but very human documentary about a complex technology and the clean energy hope of the future. Thanks to Royko, I was given […]
Author: Joy Knowles
‘Let There Be Light’ Review: Big, Bright and Beautiful
Let There Be Light is an elegant reminder of a distasteful truth: we are yeast. We are continually multiplying while hungrily eating up all the available resources until eventually dying in our own excrement, as physicist Mark Henderson expresses in a grisly metaphor. Thanks to a steady diet of fossil fuels since the Industrial Revolution, […]
‘The Space Between’ Review: The Book Would have Been Better
The Space Between, written, directed, and produced by Amy Jo Johnson (who you may recognize as the Pink Power Ranger, Kimberly Hart from the 1990s series), would have been a good book. On a bright sunny morning, a new father, Mitch, finds out his miracle baby is not actually his. This sudden and unwelcome discovery […]
‘Logan Lucky’ Review: Four-leaf Clover Approved
When planning to rob the Carolina Speedway, it always helps to make bacon, stay organized and build a model using cardboard and toilet paper rolls. These three things alone will guarantee success in convincing your little brother to join you. After being laid off from his construction job because of his limp, Jimmy Logan (Channing […]
‘Chasing Coral’ is a Devastatingly Beautiful Documentary
Jacques Cousteau, filmmaker, explorer, scientist and much much more, once said that people protect what they love. Whether or not this quote was in the minds of the team behind Chasing Coral, its message is pervasive in this hour and a half long documentary that is equal parts heartbreaking and beautiful. Coming from a background […]
#Canada150: Our Favourite Canadian Actors
Canada’s Day festivities are sadly over but that doesn’t mean that the party has to stop. In our last feature we looked at some of our team’s favourite Canadian actresses. So it was inevitable that we looked at our favourite Canadian actors. Canadian actors not only make movies great to watch but some of the most […]
#Canada150: Our Favourite Canadian Actresses
Happy Canada Day! July 1st is the day we celebrate when this great country of ours became one. It’s a country of great beer, poutine, and fantastic movies. At Get Reel Movies we specifically celebrate the great movies that come out of Canada (but we definitely enjoy the beer and poutine). Over the next few […]
‘Black Butterfly’ Review: Be Prepared for Disappointment
A “thriller” based on the 2008 French TV Movie originally titled Papillon noir, Brian Goodman’s version of Black Butterfly, tries hard to be clever by having a plot layered with different levels of crazy, but manages only to annoy. Another woman in Jefferson County has been murdered, the fourth in three years, and Paul (Antonio Banderas), an […]