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Tag: jake gyllenhaal

reviews

NOCTURNAL ANIMALS

Consider the story as it is on the page, and not as you wish it was written.

Posted on December 4, 2016September 28, 2019
trailers

I Grieve: DEMOLITION Trailer

A grief-stricken postcard from an old friend from home…

Posted on February 11, 2016February 22, 2016
festivals, reactions, TIFF

DEMOLITION plays TIFF 2015

Choose the music to destroy to…and then destroy the music

Posted on September 11, 2015September 15, 2015
trailers

Fought to Fight It: SOUTHPAW Trailer

I’m rather happy that there are films like this to give me a break from all the cinematic cheeseburgers I’ll be eating this summer.

Posted on May 5, 2015May 11, 2015
reviews

NIGHTCRAWLER

Ambition is a great thing, but not when it leaves the rest of us feeling so rotten

Posted on October 31, 2014November 5, 2014
trailers

Streets of Sorrow: NIGHTCRAWLER Trailer

Last autumn was pretty good to Donnie Darko. Can he continue the run of good work?

Posted on August 5, 2014September 4, 2014
reviews

ENEMY

We all talk to our own reflections. What happens when the reflection starts talking back?

Posted on March 24, 2014March 29, 2014
trailers

Mirrors: ENEMY Trailer

A ray of Canadian warmth and a hope that it can bring the thaw after this long, cold winter.

Posted on February 24, 2014March 1, 2014
reviews

PRISONERS

We like to think we know ourselves. We like to think we know what we’re capable of. Turns out, we often hold fast to the wrong

Posted on September 22, 2013September 26, 2013
reviews

SOURCE CODE

Duncan Moon is a Hired Gun…and Lordy is He One Hell of a Hired Gun.

Posted on April 3, 2011November 26, 2011
trailers

Debate Exposes Doubt (SOURCE CODE Trailer)

As if hoisting a pint or two with one or two dozen other movie bloggers wasn’t enough to make my head hurt for one Wednesday … Read More ›

Posted on January 26, 2011August 7, 2011
links

Everybody’s Talkin’ 1 – 29 (Chatter From Other Bloggers)

At the moment, I have no movie plans for the weekend. However, after the wealth of classic movie goodness I caught on dvd last weekend, … Read More ›

Posted on January 29, 2010March 29, 2012

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