SideVue

Aug. 24, 2011 / 827: Building revitalization

Going in with a whimper

Why Is TIFF Debuting So Dumbly?

After 140 columns, the projector’s being shut off—this is the last SideVue for the foreseeable future. Newspapers being about as passé as projectors (this October, all of Canada’s… Read more »

Aug. 17, 2011 / 826: Ice Cream

Smells like teen spirit

Submarine surfaces this week to remind us of the time when, supposedly, growing up is hardest to do. The hornymoans, the prison of home-life, the girls who like… Read more »

Aug. 11, 2011 / 825: The Fringe

Apes of Wrath

Monkey Business on Film

It’s prime primate-time again, with Rise of the Planet of the Apes now in theatres and the doc Project Nim opening across the country (it already screened here… Read more »

Aug. 04, 2011 / 824: Folk Fest

Sidevue: Citizen Dude (Expanded Version)

SideVue: Citizen Dude How the Coens’ slice of slacker-noir shuffled on beyond “cult-classic” He abided most critics shrugging him off when he strolled into theatres in March 1998.… Read more »

Jul. 28, 2011 / 823: The Naked Truth

I see undead people

Why let death stand in the way of a prequel?

Marley and Me ended (spoiler alert) with just Me; the Labrador retriever Marley went to that cloud-tufted, hydrant-filled doggyground in the sky. But now that Twentieth Century Fox… Read more »

Jul. 19, 2011 / 821: The Beer Issue

Getting Harry

Why post-Potter predictions miss the point

All the Hogwarts hoopla and hype misting magically through the Muggles media these franchise-finishing, dark days—“How Harry Potter Changed The World”; “Harry Potter Fans Flock To Theaters For… Read more »

Jul. 14, 2011 / 821: The Beer Issue

Summer gaze

Six more of the best films out there (but not yet here)

Our mid-blockbuster break continues as we look at another half-dozen of the promising non-mainstream films that have been unwrapped out there but not yet delivered directly to us… Read more »

Jul. 06, 2011 / 820: Bestest of Edmonton

Summertime and the watching ain’t easy

Six of the Best Films Out There (But Not Yet Here)

In the summer-blockbuster season, it’s even easier to forget that, somewhere out there, beyond the bright-light pollution of the multiplex marquees hyping star-powered formula flicks, there are some… Read more »

Jul. 05, 2011 / 820: Bestest of Edmonton

Summertime and the watching ain’t easy

Six of the best films out there (but not yet here)

In the summer-blockbuster season, it's even easier to forget that, somewhere out there, beyond the bright-light pollution of the multiplex marquees hyping star-powered formula flicks, there are some… Read more »

Jun. 30, 2011 / 819: Children of Bodom

Three’s comedy

Which one got the last laugh at the box-office?

Now playing, or just about to, are three very different kind of comedies: one darkly modern, one a genial crowdpleaser and one a kind of zippy retread—call it… Read more »