Articles By Cal MacLean
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22 Jump Street Phil Lord and Christopher Miller Published Jun 13, 2014Two years ago, 21 Jump Street flew in under the radar, for reasons that hardly need explaining — it being based on a television series...
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Heaven Adores You Nickolas Dylan Rossi Published May 10, 2014It's been over ten years now since cult favorite Elliott Smith died from a stabbing to the heart. Since then, there's been a steady release...
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The Amazing Spider-Man 2 Marc Webb Published May 02, 2014It seemed premature to reboot the Spider-Man franchise so soon after Sam Raimi's Spider-Man 3 squandered its potential in 2007. But to the c...
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The Dirties Matthew Johnson Published Apr 28, 2014After seeing Matthew Johnson's directorial debut, The Dirties, filmmaker Kevin Smith decided to help distribute it; he's called it "the most...
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The Returned Manuel Carballo Published Mar 28, 2014The Returned should have been a great zombie film. On paper, it appears that way: in a slightly dystopian future where a zombie-like virus h...
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Enemy Denis Villeneuve Published Mar 13, 2014With Oscar season behind us, hopefully there will be a chance for a few of the overlooked films to find new audiences. As always happens, so...
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Alan Partridge Declan Lowney Published Mar 06, 2014After nearly 20 years, Steve Coogan's Alan Partridge character is finally coming to North America. In that time, Partridge has been part of...
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Blue is the Warmest Colour Abdellatif Kechiche Published Feb 28, 2014Blue is the Warmest Colour is a film with many layers. The one you need to get past is the controversy that ignited when the film premiered...
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Darkman Sam Raimi Published Feb 14, 2014Are there any b-movies anymore? The joyous pulp cinema of yesteryear has been mostly lost to massive studio misfires (ex: John Carter, Battl...
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Million Dollar Baby: 10th Anniversary Edition [Blu-Ray] Clint Eastwood Published Feb 04, 2014Million Dollar Baby is a pretty good movie, simply written and economically directed, with lots of attention to the actors' performances. He...
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Labor Day Jason Reitman Published Jan 30, 2014Over a hot Labour Day weekend, escaped convict Frank (Josh Brolin) imposes on a mother and son for a ride. The mother, Adele (Kate Winslet),...
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The Visitor Giulio Paradisi Published Jan 01, 2014"Content is king" goes the buzz phrase. It gets repeated too often to sum up the modern boom of franchises and property-mining that's lead t...
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Cody Calahan Antisocial Published Dec 23, 2013Watching the opening shots of Antisocial follow its lead character (Michelle Mylett) wander outside Hart House at the University of Toronto,...
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Inside Llewyn Davis Joel and Ethan Coen Published Dec 18, 2013The popular question of what a particular artist's best work is will always prompt a debate. But what does "best" mean exactly, especially w...
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Nebraska Alexander Payne Published Nov 21, 2013In Alexander Payne's Nebraska, an ornery old man (Bruce Dern) gets a letter that says he's won a million dollars and, ignoring his family's...
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The Drunk and on Drugs Happy Funtime Hour Ron Murphy Published Jan 27, 2013Is it possible to write about a Canadian show without considering the general state of Canadian television? Maybe one day we'll see Canadian...
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Hyde Park on Hudson Roger Michell Published Dec 13, 2012The trailer for Hyde Park on Hudson provides a refreshingly straightforward litmus test for whether audiences should go see the film or not....
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The Bourne Legacy [Blu-Ray] Tony Gilroy Published Dec 07, 2012By now, the story behind the making of the Bourne series is nearly as compelling as the films. Starting with director Doug Liman's adaptatio...
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A Liar's Autobiography – The Untrue Story of Monty Python's Graham Chapman Bill Jones, Jeff Simpson and Ben Timlett Published Nov 15, 2012Monty Python are often called the Beatles of comedy, but the two groups have more in common than their tremendous legacies. With the prematu...
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Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter [Blu-Ray] Timur Bekmambetov Published Nov 09, 2012Remakes, remixes and, maybe most of all, mash-ups are getting attention at previously unprecedented levels. The Internet has given us endles...