Articles by Jeff Musgrave

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  A Good Woman

  Mike Barker

  PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2006

  The self-conscious voiceover that starts A Good Woman is the first, but certainly not the last, sign that the film's in trouble. Helen Hunt...

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  Beowulf & Grendel

  Sturla Gunnarsson

  PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2006

  Too bad this film wasn't called Selma. Sarah Polley is luminous as the soothsaying outsider cursed with the ability to foresee the deaths o...

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  Tsotsi

  Gavin Hood

  PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2006

  It's not often you see a film that makes full and brilliant use of the medium. Tsotsi, nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Lang...

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  Evil Aliens

  Jake West

  PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

  The first half of Evil Aliens plays more like Porky's than a sci-fi film, complete with big-breasted women and the wet dreams they inspire....

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  Three Needles

  Thom Fitzgerald

  PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

  While Fitzgerald's The Event (his other contribution to the AIDS canon) sometimes veered into sentimentality, the trio of plot lines that m...

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  Saints-Martyrs-des-Damnés

  Robin Aubert

  PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

  Flavien Juste (François Chenier), a tabloid reporter, is sent with his photographer friend Armand (Patrice Robitaille) to a small town wher...

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  Isolation

  Billy O'Brien

  PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

  Isolation is The Thing on a farm. Dan, a proud Irishman, lets a research firm experiment on his stock for a promised cash payment. Trouble...

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  Whole New Thing

  Amnon Buchbinder

  PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

  Newcomer Aaron Webber plays Emerson Thorson, a home-educated adolescent sent to public school because of his poor math skills. His mother,...