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TOM WAITS Glitter and Doom Live (Anti) **** 1/2 (out of 5) Tom Waits is one of the great live performers in music today, but he’s been curiously ill-served by his live albums: Nighthawks at the Diner (1975) suffers from a weak lineup of songs, while Big Time (1988) suffered from the same ...
Other
The waiflike beauty looks up at the strong, handsome, silent man, who seems at that moment like the embodiment of every kind of forbidden love. Strands of long, dark hair in her eyes, she begs him to change her into a vampire like himself, so they can be lovers forever. He shakes his head and ...
Drama
Ray Park
Them
Faizon Love
According to legend, Terrence Malick tried to shoot as much of Days of Heaven as he could at the “magic hour,” those brief, beautiful minutes of the day just after the sun has set but there’s still light in the sky. I don’t know what you’d call the opposite of the magic hour (the tragic ...
Drama
The Road
Viggo Mortensen
Cormac Mccarthy
My "HIdden Gem" DVD pick this week for CBC Radio is Not Quite Hollywood , director Mark Hartley's high-octane documentary about the golden age of Australian exploitation movies. I tend to recommend a lot of movies about movies in these segments, and I don't know if that's something listeners ...
Other
So many directors are remaking classic horror movies from the ’70s and ’80s, and yet it’s occurred to almost none of them to do what Ti West has done in The House of the Devil and come up with an original horror story but set it in the ’80s. In fact, judging from the scene in which the main ...
Horror
CONNIE KALDOR Postcards From the Road (Outside Music) ** (out of 5) There’s a fine line between eloquent simplicity and mere banality, between familiar shared truths and shopworn sentiments, and far too often on Postcards From the Road , singer/songwriter and Canadian folk festival mainstay ...
Drama
The Road
Faizon Love
Peter Morgan is one of the few screenwriters who appears to have no ambitions to become a director, but whose scripts have such consistent themes that he practically qualifies as an auteur anyway. A typical Morgan script will dramatize a little-known footnote of ’70s history, and use that ...
Drama
Peter Morgan
Every frame of The Fantastic Mr. Fox , Wes Anderson’s first foray into stop-motion animation, is so filled with wonders, you hardly know where to look. A book on a shelf, leaning against a TV set, titled Spices of the Jungle. A stalk of wheat worn in the breast pocket of a corduroy suit ...
Animation
The Fantastic Mr. Fox
Wes Anderson
George Clooney
Meryl Streep
THE WILLIAM BLAKES Wayne Coyne (Speed of Sound) *** 1/2 (out of 5) The Danish rock band The William Blakes may have named their debut album after the lead singer of The Flaming Lips, but judging from these 12 songs, Coyne is the least of their influences. The opening track, “Secrets of the ...
Comedy
Wayne'S World
Cars
Most computer animation studios don’t actually aspire to be Pixar. Pixar turns out one entertaining, moving, visually spectacular, critically acclaimed, and ridiculously profitable animated film after another, and that’s a task no sane studio would ever assign itself. No, most fledgling ...
Sci-Fi
Planet 51
Pixar
When divorced single mom Muna Farah’s application to emigrate from Palestine to the United States is unexpectedly approved, she balks at leaving her familiar surroundings, even as she knows it’s an opportunity she can’t refuse — if only for the sake of her teenage son Fadi, a bright kid who ...
Drama
“Scripture-pure veracity and scandal-rag content. That conjunction gives it its sizzle.” That’s how the narrator of James Ellroy’s stunning new novel Blood’s a Rover describes the 600 pages that follow — but that description would apply equally well to any of James Ellroy’s books, which ...
Action
Roman Polanski
Watch out, John Cusack! That plane’s going to fly off without you! If you don’t run faster, you’re going to fall into one of thousands of faultlines opening up right under your feet in Yellowstone National Park! What’s more, you won’t be able to give your ex-wife and your two kids directions ...
Drama
2012
John Cusack
Armando Ianucci's scathing political satire In the Loop is the topic of this week's "Hidden Gem" segment for CBC Radio, and it made me glad all over again that I chose not to work in politics, because if I had a boss even a fraction as terrifying as Malcolm Tucker, I would do nothing but cry ...
Other
WINTER KILLS Plot In A Nutshell William Richert’s 1979 conspiracy thriller about the brother (Jeff Bridges) of an assassinated president who many years later uncovers his first clue to the identity of the killer. Thoughts I watched this one about a week and a half ago, and I really shouldn’t ...
Horror
Jeff Bridges
The Box
Richard Kelly
John Huston
Frank Darabont
BETTY DAVIS Nasty Gal/Is It Love Or Desire (Light in the Attic) **** 1/2 (out of 5) Soul sister, sex goddess, funk icon, force of nature: Betty Davis recorded only four albums before dropping out of the music business, but no one who’s heard her voice will ever forget it. It’s less a voice, ...
Other
Faizon Love
Hope Davis
The British ensemble comedy Pirate Radio tells a pretty familiar slobs-vs.-snobs story, but does so within an unusual historical setting. It’s 1966, British rock is at its creative zenith, but almost none of it is being heard on the radio — according to an opening title, BBC Radio was playing ...
Drama
Chris Rock
Philip Seymour Hoffman
Bill Nighy
An Education is the story of a 16-year-old girl who believes she is smart, but finds out too late that she is merely clever. The girl is named Jenny, and she lives in suburban London in 1961. She doesn’t have to study too hard to get good grades in school, and she sees no reason why the rest ...
Drama
An Education
Peter Sarsgaard
It's about time someone made a movie whose subject... is objects. Objectified is the new documentary from Helvetica director Gary Hustwit, and it's the topic of my "Hidden Gems" DVD segment this week for CBC Radio. Give your beautifully, ergonomically designed mouse a click here to give it a ...
Other
Gary Oldman
LYLE LOVETT Natural Forces (Lost Highway) ** 1/2 (out of 5) Lyle Lovett’s always been a hard one to read. He has a certain reputation as the hipster’s favourite country singer, too sly and strange to fit into the Nashville mould; but he’s also got a taste for cornball Texas swing — just ...
