GREEN BOOK is one of my favourite movies of 2018 and easily the best film I saw at last fall’s Toronto International Film Festival. I was there the moment the film premiered at last fall’s Toronto International Film Festival and even at the Press & Industry screening I could feel a complete shock-wave through the […]
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South By Southwest 2019 Interview – SWEET STEEL director Will Goss
“It’s about a man who procrastinates on his suicide attempt because he doesn’t care for the taste of the gun in his mouth. The subject matter is admittedly grim, but I feel that we’ve found an approach to the story and characters that is equally sensitive and unique.” — Director Will Goss on SWEET STEEL […]
SxSW 2019 Interview – BECOMING LESLIE director Tracy Frazier
“BECOMING “LESLIE” tells the story of a cross-dressing vagabond from Florida who winds up becoming a cultural icon of all things weird in Austin, Texas. He was best known for shining a satirical light on police accountability with the treatment of the homeless population. At the heart, the documentary is a character portrait of a […]
South By Southwest 2019 Interview — PORNO director Keola Racela
“The film is about five movie theater employees in a small Christian community who find a creepy old film reel in the basement. They watch it and think it’s pornography, but it turns out to be a devil movie that summons a succubus, who terrorized these virgins over the course of the night. “ Director […]
South By Southwest 2019 Interview – THE WALL OF MEXICO directors Magdalena Zyzak & Zachary Colter
“THE WALL OF MEXICO tells the story of a wealthy Mexican-American family who builds a wall around their property to keep poor white locals from stealing their artesian water. It’s an allegory that extends beyond current Mexican-American relations, mapping onto various human social hierarchies: political, socioeconomic, sexual, and so on.” I hear you are back […]
THE LEGO MOVIE 2: THE SECOND PART Review – Sequel-Building Fun!
I have never had so much unfiltered, unadulterated FUN in a movie theatre quite like the near out-of-body experience I had watching the 2014 film THE LEGO MOVIE. I hold it in such high regard that the mere mention of the movie title still elicits a wave of joy in my psyche. How is it, […]
THE FRONT RUNNER Review – Many Questions, No Answers
You know what I think director Jason Reitman wants to make with THE FRONT RUNNER? A 2010s-era Spielberg drama in the spirit of LINCOLN or THE POST. A film primarily consisting of men discussing things? I know I’ve seen that before! Reitman is a talented director and he’s not credited enough these days. Notice the […]
Whistler Film Festival 2018 Interview: ELIJAH & THE ROCK CREATURE director Jen Walden
“Imagine that E.T. was made of rocks and lichen and had hung out in the subarctic for a few thousand years before meeting the cool kid that helps him to get home. This is a story about adventure, about aliens from across the stars, about kids and how resourceful they are, and it’s a story […]
Whistler Film Festival Interview: Zack Bernbaum and Katherine Fogler from THE DANCING DOGS OF DOMBROVA
Editor’s Note: The following interview was conducted by Andrea Peek at the recent Austin Film Festival. THE DANCING DOGS OF DOMBROVA is currently screening at the Whistler Film Festival. I caught fellow Canadians Zack Bernbaum (director) and Katherine Fogler (lead actor, Sarah) in the Driskill Bar at the Oscar-contending Austin Film Festival for a […]
Whistler Film Festival 2018 Interview – RED ROVER director Shane Belcourt
“RED ROVER is a story about a guy who feels utterly rejected by everyone on Earth and figures applying for a one-way mission to Mars is his best bet to find happiness, until he meets Phoebe, an off-beat musician as lost as he is. This is a love story about fight or flight, when do […]
Whistler Film Festival 2018 Interview: STOCKHOLM director Robert Budreau
“Based on the absurd but true 1973 bank heist and hostage crisis in Stockholm that was documented in the New Yorker as the origins of the psychological phenomenon, the ‘Stockholm Syndrome’. The story focuses on a female bank employees (Noomi Rapace) who falls for her captor, an unhinged American outlaw (Ethan Hawke) as they turn […]
BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY Review: I Want It All
Editor’s note: Please welcome our new writer, Dustin Buursma, to Get Reel Movies! This is the first of many reviews from Dustin for the site. — JW, Managing Editor Early rumours from advanced screenings of BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY had coloured my expectations: Freddie Mercury’s queerness had been downplayed in favour of a bigger biopic of the […]
LAFF 2018 Review: HEAVEN WITHOUT PEOPLE
What I loved about HEAVEN WITHOUT PEOPLE is the heated philosophical debate that arises out of a family struggling with a diversity of political beliefs. The captured audience watches to see if secrets kept between certain members will be revealed, if this family with unravel under the weight of the challenges of living in Lebanon […]
LAFF 2018 Review: MUSEO
What a ride for these Mexican friends in MUSEO. This story is a buddy movie akin to DUMB & DUMBER but a bit more melancholy. Inspired by true events, MUSEO follows two veterinarian failures, who decide to make their mark by pulling of Mexico’s largest artifact heist. Not the smartest tools in the box, they steal […]
LAFF 2018 Review: BORDER
BORDER was absolutely not what I expected. It was more. I saw BORDER at the end of LAFF as it had won their World Fiction Jury Award and it had a wild premise. Tine, a woman who can smell emotions, has the perfect job as a border agent in Sweden. She sniffs disembarking ferry passengers […]