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Starring Your Brandnew
Matthew Soar zooms in on product placement in Hollywood.
Montreal Mirror |
Patrick Lejtenyi |
03-10-2006 |
Movies
Sobering Thoughtsnew
Threat explores the darker side of
straightedge subculture.
Montreal Mirror |
Sarah Rowland |
02-03-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Matt Pizzolo, Threat
Holiday Round-Upnew
Aussie slasher Wolf Creek and sexless period piece Casanova are among the many holiday releases to read about before seeing.
Montreal Mirror |
Matthew Hays, Sarah Rowland and Mark Slutsky |
12-27-2005 |
Movies
The Truman Shownew
Philip Seymour Hoffman brings the author of In Cold Blood to life in Capote, having worked his way into the character from "the outside in."
Montreal Mirror |
Matthew Hays |
12-19-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Peeved Reevesnew
At an assembly-line celebrity interview at the Toronto International Film Festival, Thumbsucker star Keanu Reeves tells journalists as little as possible.
Montreal Mirror |
Matthew Hays |
10-31-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
School of Hard Rocknew
Sam Dunn and Scot McFadyen take an anthropological look at the people who live and die for heaviosity in their new documentary.
Montreal Mirror |
Sarah Rowland |
10-07-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
D.I.Y. Eroticanew
Disenchanted with the state of mainstream pornography, a Canadian collective made a documentary about its quest to create indie porn.
Montreal Mirror |
Mark Slutsky |
09-30-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
What Stinks and What Rocks at Toronto Film Festivalnew
Director Cameron Crowe fast became the joke of the 30th Toronto International Film Festival while several unexpected indie gems and countless Asian sensations garnered praise.
Montreal Mirror |
Sarah Rowland |
09-16-2005 |
Movies
Flesh and Bloodnew
"It all seemed supremely perverse," said Carly Pope, upon
first reading the script of this boundary-pushing, incest-
laden black comedy by indie director Larry Kent. It's one
of the most talked-about films at the World Film Festival.
Montreal Mirror |
Matthew Hays |
08-19-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Larry Kent, The Hamster Cage
Ring Leader of Korean Filmnew
With his latest boxing masterpiece and martial arts comedy, Ryu Seung-wan is on a quest to keep Korean film at the forefront both at home and abroad.
Montreal Mirror |
Sarah Rowland |
07-01-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
A South African Crime Legend Gets His Duenew
In Johannesburg, Canadian filmmaker Bronwen Hughes scrapped her original script for Stander and wrote a more subtle story about an ambitious career cop who turned from police work to a life of crime.
Montreal Mirror |
Sarah Rowland |
12-08-2004 |
Profiles & Interviews
