Ghost Dog: The Ways of the Samurai (1999, Jim Jarmusch) Jim Jarmusch is in love of tales that pit odd characters in odd settings facing odd...

El Norte (1983, Gregory Nava) El Norte is an interesting piece of cinema. It's story focuses on the trials and tribulations of illegal...

In what will probably be the final poll on this blog (due to pathetically low particiation), the most anticipated movie of 2009, according t...

The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (2006, Mamoru Hosoda) I wasn't familiar with director Hosoda until the past few weeks when everybody se...

Up The Yangtze (2007, Yung Chang) In Young Chang's documentary (yay for provincial and federal funding!), we follow the paths of two ve...

Man on Wire (2008, James Marsh) Man on Wire , in case you have been living under a rock for the past 6 months or so. is the documentary abo...

The Witnesses (2007, André Téchiné) Starting in 1984 in Paris, we meet the young, easy going and charming Adrien, played by Michel Blanc, w...

The Reader (2008, Stephen Daldry) In Stephen Daldry's The Reader , based on a best selling novel published in 1995, love and all the em...

Blues Harp (1998, Takashi Miike) Here is a fun little movie in Blues Harp , a story about the newly found friendship between three very dif...

The Wrestler (2008, Darren Aronofsky) Comparisons have been made between this Aronofsky outing and to the recent JCVD when writing a revie...