Articles by Ian Mackenzie
House Of Flying Daggers Zhang Yimou 2
PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016
House of Flying Daggers is more successful as a visual study of forests and the ass-kickers who live there than as the cohesive fable it as...
Phil Alien Rob Stefaniuk 3
PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016
It looks as if director Rob Stefaniuk called in a lot of favours while making his campy sci-fi comedy Phil the Alien. Even at the best of t...
Modigliani Mick Davis
PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016
Mick Davis manages somehow to transcend a minefield of genre clichés with this sympathetic portrait of the doomed genius artist Modigliani....
Kontroll Nimrod Antal 2
PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016
It starts with a limited aesthetic palette; it's a film shot entirely underground in Budapest's glum Soviet-era subway system. And despite...
Childstar Don Mckellar 3
PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016
Don McKellar's second feature, Childstar, is all about being literal. It's about a child star a popular 12-year-old American sitcom actor...
The Siege
Edward Zwick
PUBLISHED May 25, 2007
"Imagine if there was an attack on New York City like 9/11, actor Annette Bening says in one of this DVDs extra features, "and then it di...
Bobby
Emilio Estevez
PUBLISHED Apr 30, 2007
More linear than a Robert Altman film, less visually seductive than a Paul Thomas Anderson film, writer/director Emilio Estevezs Bobby Ken...
Blood Diamond
Edward Zwick
PUBLISHED Mar 13, 2007
First, the good news: Leonardo Dicaprios uneven South African accent isnt half as distracting as it sounds like its going to be from the...
