Gerard Barrett’s sensitive and subtle drama Glassland takes a haunting look at what happens when a child is forced to parent his parent: the pressures, the shame, the lies, the anger, and the constant stress of being responsible for someone for whom you shouldn’t be responsible. Although it’s a strong study of the effects on its characters — Jack Reynor (What Richard Did) and Toni Collette (About a Boy) give terrific performances — the plot is otherwise thin, the psychological insights somewhat lacking.
Film Reviews
Here you will find every film review we've written. These include: festival films, new releases, and older films.
Sundance 2015 Review: Larry Kramer in Love and Anger captures both the man and the LGBT movement
By laying bare the horrors of dealing with AIDS in the 1980s and 1990s, Carlomusto infuses us with the same anger and impatience that Kramer felt.
Review: Selma is one for the history books
Selma is a vital, brutal, and inspiring film, which chronicles the lead-up to the historic Civil Rights march from Selma to Montgomery, lead by Martin Luther King Jr.
American Sniper: The price a great soldier pays to serve his country
Clint Eastwood’s American Sniper is an intelligent, probing character study of a man torn between his duty as the US Military’s deadliest sniper in history, and his life at home.
The best films of 2014
Although much of the awards-bait of 2014 was mediocre at best, from “The Imitation Game” to “The Theory of Everything,” last year was still filled with wonderful films, moving and entertaining, innovative and thoughtful. Here’s a look at my favourite films of 2014 that were actually released in US cinemas in 2014 or premiered in […]
The Imitation Game: cracking the Nazi code and the human one
Benedict Cumberbatch stars as Alan Turing in The Imitation Game, an engaging but often silly look at the team who cracked the Enigma code.