Review
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SLIFF 2009 Review: TOUCHING HOME
Whether you’re a baseball fan or not, TOUCHING HOME is a wonderful story and a great little film that’s...
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SLIFF 2009 Review: MADE IN CHINA
Judith Krant makes her directorial debut with MADE IN CHINA, a satirical mockumentary mumblecore mutt of a movie that...
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SLIFF 2009 Review: HOW I GOT LOST
How I Got Lost… Well, maybe you should start to answer that with the drunken cab ride out New...
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SLIFF 2009 Review: CLOUD 9
Let me paint you a picture. You come home from work one day, tired, but happy to be alive....
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SLIFF 2009 Review: CAT CITY
Nick (Julian Sands) is a dirty, dirty businessman. He is a very wealthy man who has been cheating on...
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SLIFF 2009 Review: ST. NICK
It’s time to put the giant-sized Muppets in the closet. Whereas WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE, or, at...
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Review: 2012
I find it humorous, if not entirely premeditated, that what is perhaps the disaster movie of the grandest scale...
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SLIFF 2009 Review: ALBINO FARM
Whereas audiences may usually expect a film festival to be comprised solely of artsy dramas and foreign films, ALBINO...
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SLIFF 2009 Review: BEESWAX
One of the first things that must be noticed about BEESWAX is that the film is filled with color,...
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SLIFF 2009 Review: GAME OF THE YEAR
GAME OF THE YEAR is a mockumentary written and directed by local filmmaker Chris Grega (AMPHETAMINE, RHINELAND). The film...
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SLIFF 2009 Review: THE DRUMMER (Zhan gu)
The sound of drums can penetrate the soul and resonate deeper than any musical instrument if performed by a...
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SLIFF 2009 Review: SPOONER
The prospect of moving out of our parents’ houses and venturing out into life on our own is usually...
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SLIFF 2009 Review: UNDER STILL WATERS
There is slow burn, and then there is no burn, that type of film that keeps making you think...
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Graphic Nature – Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
Two years ago the gaming world was turned upside down when Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare was released....
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SLIFF 2009 Review: BLACKSPOT
If there’s one thing I’ve learned it’s never to underestimate the films being made in New Zealand. No, I’m...
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SLIFF 2009 Review: LAILA’S BIRTHDAY
Rashid Masharawi’s latest film, LAILA’S BIRTHDAY, is a film both daring and sweet, a story about a world turned...
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SLIFF 2009 Review: THE NORTH FACE
It’s not much of a qualifier, but writer/director Philipp Stolzl’s THE NORTH FACE, NORDWAND in its native German, could...
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SLIFF 2009 Review: SLEEPWALKING LAND
SLEEPWALKING LAND (Terra Sonâmbula) is a vividly real film that tells a somewhat surreal story about life in Mozambique....
