Hong Kong had already re-invented the cop thriller with the likes of John Woo’s A Better Tomorrow and Hard Boiled long before Infernal Affairs arrived. But despite a poster campaign that showed drawn guns held by tough-as-nails cops, there would be no slow-motion shoot-outs in bu... Read More »
Marketa Lazarová, directed by František Vláčil, is one of the most astonishing films ever made, even beyond the confines of the Czechoslovak New Wave. It also goes beyond its native source material (Vladislav Vančura’s 1931 novel of the same name) to stand toweringly on its own i... Read More »
Fearless optimist Anna teams up with Kristoff in an epic journey, encountering Everest-like conditions, and a hilarious snowman named Olaf in a race to find Anna’s sister Elsa, whose icy powers have trapped the kingdom in eternal winter. Stars Kristen Bell, Josh Gad, Idina ... Read More »
Cast: Paul Eenhoorn, Richmond Arquette, Sam Buchanan Director: Chad Hartigan Country: USA Genre: Drama Official Trailer: Here Editor’s Notes: This Is Martin Bonner will be screening for FREE Tuesday, June 18th – 9PM at the Revue Cinema in Toronto. For more information... Read More »
Politcally-speaking, the most important Chinese film of the next year or so is probably going to be Jia Zhangke’s A Touch of Sin. The edgy Cannes award-winner has a planned Chinese release date sometime in the fall – but it has been plagued by rumours of censorship and a recut ve... Read More »
Between the opening scenes of Louis Koo’s character Choi Tin-ming swerving his car in the streets and reeling and vomiting on himself at the wheel, the effects of an explosion at his cocaine factory, and the concluding scenes of Choi on an operating table being executed by inject... Read More »
The one driving mystery that has propelled most conversations around Mad Men’s sixth season is the question “Who is Bob Benson?” Many theories have been forwarded, most of them absurd, to explain the character and his consistent inconsistencies. Last week gave us what appeared to... Read More »
We have quite few reviews on Next Projection with different takes on this film. I’ve loved reading all of them. While this is just another review, I’m going personal in order to illustrate why I feel the way I do about Man of Steel. Many years ago, when I was precocious five y... Read More »
A New York stockbroker refuses to cooperate in a large securites fraud case involving corruption on Wall Street, corporate banking world and mob infiltration. Stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Hill, and Matthew McConaughey. Directed by Martin Scorsese. Read More »
Park Chan-wook (Korean director of –among other things- Oldboy) helms his first English language film, with brilliantly bloody over-the-top results. Mia Wasikowska attempts to deal with the death of her father whilst juggling the travails of her nymphomaniac mother (Nicole Kidman... Read More »
Michael finally returns to Miami in this week’s episode, but his inability to separate himself from the gang’s predicaments jeopardizes his deep cover mission, forcing him to choose between saving Fiona from a murderous kidnapper or listening to his company head and maintaining h... Read More »
Last spring, in anticipation of the four-DVD, six-film collection of Czechoslovak New Wave films issued by the Criterion Collection, Pearls of the Czech New Wave, Next Projection put the spotlight on the Czechoslovak New Wave and its sociocultural context and reviewed some of the... Read More »
