Our journalist David A. Harris continues his cinematographic journey at the 2017 Fantasia International Film Festival. Here are his latest reviews for the movies he saw last weekend.
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Sometimes the simplest ideas are the best, especially if you can also execute them with minimal effort. This is what David Lowery, the director and writer of A Ghost Story, accomplished.
I watched two movies on my first day at Fantasia Film Festival 2017. One that made me sad, and one that made me question my sanity.
With great power comes great responsibility. We all heard this in one way or another, whether it was from the dozens of cartoons, the handful of movies, and thousands of comics. This phrase cannot have more meaning than with the creation of this movie. When you mix an iconic character with two powerhouse movie studios, you can get a disastrous result. Who knew that we’d end up with a wonderful Spider-Man movie?
There was a time I never liked or even respected wrestling. I thought it was a weird over-the-top performance done by scarily proportioned people in colourful costumes. I preferred more intelligent and serious forms of entertainment, like comic books and video games. The hypocrisy was lost on me at that time.
Judd Apatow nous revient avec ce qui pourrait bien être sa production la plus délicate et sincère à ce jour, The Big Sick, permettant au brillant Kumail Nanjiani (dans son propre rôle, ou presque) d’enfin briller à la pleine hauteur de son talent. Se dévoile rapidement une comédie romantique au penchant dramatique aussi poignant qu’irrésistible.
Un vaisseau. Quelques milliards de kilomètres cubes d’espace froid et mortel, avec des stations spatiales ici et là. Un terrain de jeu quasi-infini. Bienvenue dans Elite: Dangerous.
Oh Baby. What a rush. It’s starting to seem that Edgar Wright can do no wrong. Baby Driver is more than the movie we hoped for, it’s the movie we never really expected to want, but got because we’ve been good this year.
The Bad Batch was a hard movie to find. It has a popular cast and an even more popular concept; I would expect it to be advertised more than it currently is. It stars such powerhouses as Keanu Reeves, Jim Carey and Jason Momoa. Add an upcoming female lead (played by Suki Waterhouse) and throw them in a post-apocalyptic environment with a cannibalistic cult and you should have a hit. This movie just screams blockbuster. Instead, it sort of just appeared. Unfortunately, this movie won’t be in theatres for long. It is popular enough to get a handful of people to come out to the opening night at midnight on Friday during a national holiday.
Sur une base de recherche reculée quelque part en Antarctique, un homme se réveille. Confus, seul dans des corridors sombres et mystérieux, il découvrira peu à peu un monde toujours plus étrange, plus fantastique… mais aussi plus dangereux. Bienvenue dans Conarium.