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Student film on the silver screen
Grab some popcorn and head on down to the Capitol Theatre this Thursday for the annual UWindsor Film Festival....
MOVIE REVIEW: The best of Netflix
When Netflix first arrived in Canada it was hardly worth having because the films available were mostly a mix of documentaries and features that no one had heard of, wanted to see or should see for that matter....
Detroit firefighters take the heat in a new documentary showing in Windsor theatres • photo courtesy detroitfirefilm.org
FILM REVIEW: BURN Waiting for the phoenix to rise
Burn: A Year on the Front Lines of the Battle to Save Detroit is a visually stunning and emotionally captivating glimpse at the people who fight a neverending fury in their hometown....
3D computer-animated fantasy-comedy Wreck-It Ralph is the 52nd animated feature in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series • photo courtesy Walt Disney Pictures
MOVIE REVIEW: Wreck-It Ralph
The pixelated world of video games sets the scene for the latest computer animated visual feast from Disney. Wreck It Ralph is a wonderful ode to the past and present of the virtual world....
Lunarcy! takes a humourous look at moon enthusiasts • photo courtesy We Like Films
MOVIE REVIEW: Lunarcy!
Moon people. They paint lunar landscapes, hope to live on the moon, claim its ownership and spend decades writing about life on the barren planet. These moon-obsessed folks are the subjects of Lunarcy!, the second feature film and first documentary by Canadian director Simon Ennis. ...
Holy Motors is a strange journey over a couple hours in the shadowy life of Monsieur Oscar from dawn to dusk • photo courtesy Les Films du Losange
FILM REVIEW: Holy Motors
Holy Motors is a stunning and dark dream world that confronts the senses and intrigues the mind....
Searching for Sugar Man is almost a methaphor for Detroit famous, forgotten, dirty and beautiful • photo courtesy Sony Pictures Classics
Finding Detroit while Searching for Sugar Man
On Sunday night, a Swedish/British documentary about a Mexican-American who is famous in South Africa won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, though it really was more of a Detroit documentary....
Do You Concur? Foreign flicks forgotten at Academy Awards
Amour won the top honour, the Palme d’Or, at the Cannes film festival last year, along with a slew of awards in other competitions. That a film such as Argo rather than Amour won best picture is painstakingly predictable....
A photo shot with LomoChrome Purple [left] a photo of the same scene taken with a standard color negative film [right] • photos courtesy Lomography
Mama dont take my Lomochome away
Since the rise of digital photography, film sales have significantly declined. In spite of this, the Lomography Society is releasing a new film stock for analog purists....
FILM REVIEW: Zero Dark Thirty
Divorced from reality, Zero Dark Thirty is a taught, well-casted thriller. But when CNN already spoiled the ending, it’s hard to enjoy the film knowing that the filmmakers have taken liberalities with the plot....