So much hoopla over The Passion of the Christ, we forgot to say anything about the video release of The Gospel of John, a word-for-word adaptation that had its premiere at the Toronto Film Festival in September and very slowly made its way west, finally coming to Vancouver theatres just one week before Easter. Of […]
The New World a feast for the senses and spirit alike
Los Angeles — Terrence Malick movies take a long time to gestate. Malick typically shoots hours and hours of footage, much of it improvised, and he then spends months editing it together. And in a career that goes back 33 years, he has directed only four films: Badlands, Days of Heaven, The Thin Red Line […]
The Insider embodies clear moral vision
Entering the theatre, you pretty much know what to expect from The Insider. The latest film from Michael Mann is a dramatization of the events that led former tobacco-industry executive Jeffrey Wigand (Russell Crowe) to confess in a 60 Minutes interview that his company had knowingly made its cigarettes more addictive, only to see his […]