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, […]
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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 […]
LAFF 2018 Review: THE GREAT BUSTER
Historians, film-buffs, comedy-students alike, this is a documentary not to be missed. Buster Keaton is the inventor of dark comedy and a true pioneer of cinema. The documentary film THE GREAT BUSTER is a loving tribute to his legacy as a director, actor, screenwriter, stunt performer and comedian. Keaton’s story is lovingly told by director […]
VIFF 2018 Interview – FROM ACROSS THE STREET & THROUGH TWO SETS OF WINDOWS writer Rayisa Kondracki
“Our film is about a woman who watches her neighbour across the street. She watches him as he eats dinner, talks on the phone, plays nintendo…stands naked in the window. She’s become obsessed. But it’s not sexual. His presence seems to comfort her loneliness.” Writer Rayisa Kondracki on FROM ACROSS THE STREET & THROUGH TWO […]
VIFF 2018 Interview: ELI director Colin Gerrard
“An elderly man’s visit to his local doctor ends up changing the lives of the other patients in the waiting room. Most of the somewhat disillusioned strangers start raising questions over immigration, identity and morality until the old man begins to tell a story he’s kept hidden for years.” Director Colin Gerrard on ELI which […]
VIFF 2018 Interview: MANGOSHAKE director Terry Chiu
“Two guys running a lemonade stand but instead of lemons it’s mangos inadvertently start a war with their mango dealer who is a psychopathic old blind man named Nancy because the stand’s representative was over five minutes late to the meeting point.” Director Terry Chiu on MANGOSHAKE which screens at the 2018 edition of […]
VIFF 2018 Interview: THE MUSEUM OF FORGOTTEN TRIUMPHS director Bojan Bodruzic
“The film considers the collapse of the former Yugoslavia—and the Bosnian war in particular—through the prism of the life of an old couple living out their last days in Sarajevo. The couple just happen to be my grandparents, who I was separated from as a child when the war started in the region. The film […]