Archive for the ‘Feature’ Category

The Darkness Within (2009)

The Darkness Within (2009)
When you’re watching low-budget, independent cinema there often comes a time when you have to make a choice: just how much leeway do I give this film because of the limitations it struggles to work against? With Dom Portalla’s feature debut you get to ask yourself that question on a few occasions...
July 1st, 2010 | Feature, Film Reviews | Read More

Blindness (2008)

Blindness (2008)
Fernando Meirelles first tried to adapt Blindness to the big screen in 1997. The answer of José Saramago, the novel’s author, was no. The years passed and other filmmakers asked Saramago to adapt his novels for the big screen. He continued to say no. One day two Canadians, the producer Niv Fichman...
June 30th, 2010 | Feature, Film Reviews | Read More

Greenberg (2010)

Greenberg (2010)
Noah Baumbach’s films can be summed up by the screenplays for each.  2006’s debut The Squid and the Whale was a viciously spun tale, with sharp lines, an understated groove with painfully real dramatic pauses, 2008’s follow up Margot at The Wedding was a far more sub conscious and stuffy affair,...
June 30th, 2010 | Feature, Film Reviews | Read More

Spotlight on EIFF 2010

Spotlight on EIFF 2010
Edinburgh. The Athens of the North. Auld Reekie. Or, as I like to call it, home. Which is why I am proud to be able to access and review the movies this year on behalf of Flickfeast. Surprising as it may seem, I have never before managed to attend any of the festival screenings. I [...]
June 28th, 2010 | Feature, Spotlight | Read More

Greenberg (2010)

Greenberg (2010)
Yes, no, maybe Writer-director Noah Baumbach, whose best-known features are The Squid and the Whale and Margot at the Wedding, has specialized in spoiled middle-class American intellectual types. His Roger Greenberg (Ben Stiller) is spoiled alright, and also a pretty complete loser. He was a musician,...
June 28th, 2010 | Feature, Film Reviews | Read More

Get Low (2009)

Get Low (2009)
Sometimes you sit down in a cinema and even as the house lights are dimming and the darkness swallows you up you start to get that feeling in the pit of your stomach that you’re about to see something lovingly crafted. There’s a small ball of warmth that spreads out to tingle every nerve you [...]
June 27th, 2010 | Feature, Film Reviews | Read More

Toy Story 3 (2010)

Toy Story 3 (2010)
Hogging the stage in a dry season… Toy Story 3 is the shot-in-the-arm big success of the lackluster Hollywood box office summer of 2010. The Pixar team is an impressive combination of computerized animation and storytelling talents. The Toy Story franchise is one that makes the most of the limitations...
June 24th, 2010 | Feature, Film Reviews | Read More

Meeting Paul Andrew Williams

Meeting Paul Andrew Williams
I really love reviewing movies and putting my opinions out there for others to see, absolutely love it. I’d do it 24/7 if someone was ever mad enough to let me. However, my experience at the EIFF 2010 has led to the first occasion when I’ve really known that the people reading these reviews have...
June 21st, 2010 | Feature, Spotlight | Read More

Happy Times (2000)

Happy Times (2000)
A heartfelt comedy fused with a healthy dose of drama, Happy Times (Chinese title: Xingfu Shiguang) does a good job of mixing genres while it remains entertaining and touching at the same time. In an effort to win the hand of a ‘chunky’ woman (Lifan Dong), Zhao (Benshan Zhao) claims he runs...
June 21st, 2010 | Feature, Film Reviews | Read More

Top 10 Animated films

Top 10 Animated films
Well I thought as an introduction to the boards, I’d compile a list of my Top 10 Animated films. Why? Because, quite simply, I love animation. I think animation can, when done right, transport you to a different world and place in a way that no other media can. I’ve also thought it’d...
June 21st, 2010 | Feature, Top Ten | Read More
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