Film
The protagonist of Wild Life and Dimanche (above) continue the proud tradition of Canadian animation • photos courtesy National Film Board of Canada
Gold statue meets Great White North
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Animated shorts once again provide some Canadian content to Oscar’s most overlooked category H.G. Watson LANCE REPORTER uring the media build up to the Oscars, it’s easy to forget the films that aren’t nominated for the big awards; namely, the Academy Award statuettes to documentaries and animated shorts. For a...
The West Memphis 3, whose arrest, case and recent release are covered in Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory • photos courtesy West Memphis Police Department
Rise above
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Oscar-nominated doc covers the complicated emotions around the release of the West Memphis 3 H.G. Watson LANCE REPORTER Shocking hardly covers the opening moments of Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory. In 1993, three young boys are murdered in West Memphis, Ark., and the documentary about the hunt for their killers opens...
Tilda Swinton in We Need to Talk About Kevin • photos courtesy Artificial Eye
Snub-jective criticism
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Nominations for the 84th Academy Awards ignore more worthy films than ever before H.G. Watson LANCE REPORTER he Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is now be able to nominate up to 10 movies for the Oscars, yet they still manage to get it horribly wrong. Perhaps that’s why...
Joseph Gordon-Levitt (left) and Seth Rogen make some rash decisions in 50/50 • photo courtesy Paramount Pictures
Taking on the odds
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50/50 a funny and real examination of how cancer affects one’s outlook on life H.G. Watson LANCE REPORTER here’s a familiar pattern to films about those stricken with cancer. The diagnosis is given, usually out of the blue. The ill person nobly deals with their illness. Before they go into...
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The Lance ARTS ISSUE 2012 is out!
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Pick up your copy on newsstands around town or flip through the digital pages below!...
In Young Adult, Charlize Theron (front) plays am attempted homewrecker, despite the criticisms of Patton Oswalt (background) • photo Paramount Pictures
Mature content
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For better or worse, Diablo Cody’s touch is all over Young Adult H.G. Watson LANCE REPORTER ow do we solve a problem like Diablo Cody? On one hand, she represents what filmmaking needs: a successful female screenwriter with a distinctive style who takes ownership of her work. On the other...
What you’ve missed
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Lance resident film critic honours the big and small screens H.G. Watson LANCE REPORTER Best Surprise Decapitation – Game of Thrones Game of Thrones is everything that HBO does best–great production value, excellent casting and more shock and awe then a Michael Bay film. The fantasy epic drew a broad...
Finnish reindeer herders attempt to restrain the horror that is Santa Claus in Rare Exports • photo courtesy FS Film
Sinister Santa
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Rare Exports brings a B-movie approach to holiday classics H.G. Watson LANCE REPORTER are Exports (2010), a Finnish horror film about murdering Santa Clauses, is by far the strangest Christmas film you will ever watch. It’s not good, but in a cult, B-movie kind of way, it certainly is enjoyable....
Gary Oldman plays a veteran MI6 agent on the hunt for a Soviet mole • photo courtesy StudioCanal
Close to home, far from Bond
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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy a harsh, realistic take on the Cold War-era espionage flick H.G. Watson LANCE REPORTER inker Tailor Soldier Spy, the latest from Swedish director Tomas Alfredson (Let the Right One In) is a rare spy film that makes its bones on the intelligence of its characters and...
Michael Fassbender (left) as Carl Jung and Viggo Mortensen as Sigmund Freud in A Dangerous Method • photo courtesy Sony Pictures Classics
Treading lightly
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Cronenberg’s A Dangerous Method fails to take advantage of dramatic opportunities H.G. Watson LANCE REPORTER t boggles the mind that a film about sex could be so passionless, but A Dangerous Method, the latest from Canadian film maker David Cronenberg, proves that even the most salacious subject can be flat...
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