Every week, Establishing Shots offers some further enlightenment on the films that will be screening in-cinema at the VIFF Centre and online through VIFF Connect. We’re excited to welcome Stéphanie Chuat and Véronique Reymond’s My Little Sister to the VIFF Connect streaming platform. Having premiered at last year’s Berlinale and been hailed by Variety‘s Guy Lodge as […]
Establishing Shots: Jan 15-21, 2021
Director: Christopher Landon Starring: Kathryn Newton, Vince Vaughn, Celeste O’Connor Review Author: Tony Synopsis: Millie is a high school student forced to survive the cruel world of high school while comforting her damaged mother following the recent death of her father. To make matters worse, the town’s infamous serial killer, The Blissfield Butcher, has reemerged. After a faithful […]
Getting into the business. So this is about big-time drug dealers in Arkansas. There is a hierarchy in the occupation, and at the top of the pyramid is a man named Frog (Vince Vaughn). Two up-and-comers (Liam Hemsworth, Clark Duke) are starting to prove themselves, but they have yet to meet the man in charge. […]
Southern Drug Kingpin – Arkansas (2020)
Billy Madison was Adam Sandler’s most vital film, but Happy Gilmore was his most polished. In fact, Billy Madison nailed Sandler’s comic persona so purely and perfectly that it was almost a dead end, forcing Sandler to scramble for ways to reinvent and reimagine his toddler persona over his next few films. Billy Madison was […]
A flimsy web of lies. Meet Katie Arneson (Kacey Rohl). She’s got the support of hundreds of people behind her as she works through chemotherapy. Not only that, but she is also managing to balance her school life, some extracurricular dance classes, and a relationship with her girlfriend (Amber Anderson). There’s just one teensy problem […]
Faking Cancer – White Lie (2019)
The official artwork for Last Night in Soho suggests an atmospheric affair List compiled by Eddie on 15/01/2021 There’s a few too many 2020 films in this list that sadly never saw the light of day last year but here’s hoping 2021 allows us all too partake in some cinematic content that is planned to […]
10 Most Anticipated Films of 2021
As I watched David Fincher’s latest film, Mank, my main feeling was one of wanting to like the film more than I actually did. I mean, really, the film sounds like it was specifically made to appeal to me. It’s a film about the Golden Age of Hollywood, which is an era that has always […]
The Films of 2020: Mank (dir by David Fincher)
Your Honor: Çocuğu İçin Kendi Hayatını Hiçe Sayan Bir Baba (Bölüm 4-5-6 İncelemesi) İnişli çıkışlı bir başlangıç yapan dizinin devamını merakla bekliyordum. Ya dananın kuyruğu kopacaktı ya da kopacağı yerde bir dönüm noktası yaşanacaktı. Neyse ki ikincisi oldu, merakımın iyice arttığı bölümlerin genel olarak olumlu incelemesiyle karşınızdayım. Daha önce ilk üç bölümü incelediğim yazıya buradan […]
Your Honor: Çocuğu İçin Kendi Hayatını Hiçe Sayan Bir Baba (Bölüm 4-5-6 İncelemesi)
So many thoughts run through my head when I’m watching a truly terrible movie: Why am I here? Why do I like inflicting pain on myself? Do I secretly like it? Why didn’t I spend my time watching a classic that has been on my watchlist for years instead? How are my beloved Sixers doing? […]
Nick Kush’s Top 10 Worst Movies of 2020
Disney+’s new spinoff series is unabashed, off-kilter, and unlike anything Marvel has ever attempted.
WandaVision Promises a New Beginning for the Marvel Cinematic Universe: Review
Set in the near future, a rogue scientist fights to free advanced humanoids that she built. Project Links Website Facebook Instagram News & Reviews “Should Robots Be Granted Legal Personhood?”
Short Film: SYNTH, 11min., USA
In a world where the wealthy can go for joyrides or outright steal the bodies of the young, one former victim, a young woman, raises an underground resistance to fight back. Project Links Website
Stationary (2019) Director – Louis Chan Cast – Aaron Thomas Ward, Rebekah Murrell, Xavien Russell Plot – Childhood friends Jimmy (Ward) and Che (Murrell) discuss their traumatic pasts and their unknown futures while Che’s younger brother Gino (Russell) plays a dangerous game with his life decisions. “You see me living on my knees?” […]
Short Film Review – Stationary (2019)
Amores Perros (2000) Director – Alejandro G. Iñárritu (The Revenant) Cast – Gael García Bernal, Emilio Echevarría, Goya Toledo, Vanessa Bauche Plot – The lives of a group of Mexican citizens are bounded together unknowingly through an horrific car crash. “If you want to make God laugh… tell Him your plans” Review by […]
Classic Review – Amores Perros (2000)
Adopt a Highway (2019) Director – Logan Marshall-Green (feature debut) Cast – Ethan Hawke, Elaine Hendrix, Anne-Marie Johnson, Christopher Heyerdahl Plot – Released from prison after a 21 year stint, Russell Millings (Hawke) discovers an abandoned baby in a dumpster behind the burger joint he works at, offering him an unexpected chance at […]
Film Review – Adopt a Highway (2019)
Clemency (2019) Director – Chinonye Chukwu (alaskaLand) Cast – Alfre Woodard, Aldis Hodge, Wendell Pierce, Richard Schiff Plot – Prison warden Bernadine Williams (Woodard) finds herself struggling to stay on top of her mental state as her job of overseeing state sanctioned killings of death row inmates takes it’s toll on her and […]
An American Pickle (2020) Director – Brandon Trost (feature debut) Cast – Seth Rogen, Sarah Snook, Molly Evensen, Jorma Taccone Plot – Preserved in a vat of pickles in New York in the early 1900’s, Jewish immigrant Herschel Greenbaum (Rogen) reemerges into modern day society where he meets his last living relative Ben […]
Film Review – An American Pickle (2020)
Sound of Metal (2019) Director – Darius Marder (feature debut) Cast – Riz Ahmed, Olivia Cooke, Paul Raci, Mathieu Amalric Plot – Drummer Ruben Stone (Ahmed) has his life turned upside down when he begins to lose his hearing, putting in jeopardy his future plans and relationship with long term girlfriend Lou (Cooke). […]
Film Review – Sound of Metal (2019)
Ikiru (1952) Director – Akira Kurosawa (Seven Samurai) Cast – Takashi Shimura, Shin’ichi Himori, Nobuo Kaneko, Minoru Chiaki Plot – Diagnosed with terminal cancer, long-serving government office worker Kanji Watanabe (Shimura) begins to search for meaning in a life he realizes has been one he has wasted up to the point of him […]
