Articles by Kevin Harper

Official Selection 6: Parents Just Don't Understand

PUBLISHED Jun 2, 2010

Focusing on the inevitable fractures between children and parents, the sixth official selection of the Worldwide Short Film Festival proves...

Beyond Ipanema

Guto Barra and Beco Dranoff

PUBLISHED Apr 30, 2010

The title is not simply a reference to the south Rio de Janeiro neighbourhood, but also of moving beyond Astrid Gilberto's world-famous ver...

Grace, Milly, Lucy... Child Soldiers

Raymonde Provencher

PUBLISHED Apr 30, 2010

Over the past 20 years, over 30,000 Ugandan girls have been kidnapped from their homes and forced to kill by rebel militants. These soldier...

The "Socalled" Movie

Garry Beitel

PUBLISHED Apr 30, 2010

What happens when a gay French-Canadian Jewish pianist/accordionist (Josh Dolgin) combines klezmer (traditional Jewish folk music) with fun...

We Don't Care About Music Anyway...

Cedric Dupire and Gaspard Kuentz

PUBLISHED Apr 30, 2010

The Tokyo avant-garde music scene has always been remarkably ahead of the times, from the deconstructionist punk of the Boredoms to the fre...

Bronson

Nicolas Winding Refn

PUBLISHED Feb 11, 2010

Highly stylized, yet never alienating, Bronson is one of the few recent biopics to create a captivating portrait of a volatile subject and...

Edge of Darkness

Martin Campbell

PUBLISHED Jan 29, 2010

Based on the 1985 BBC miniseries of the same name, Edge of Darkness has Mel Gibson in front of the camera for the first time since a smalli...

The Road

John Hillcoat

PUBLISHED Nov 26, 2009

Adapted from Cormac McCarthy's Pulitzer-winner 2006 novel, The Road takes place after the world has suffered what appears to be the fallout...