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SILENT RETREAT - Review By Greg Klymkiw - Dreadful Script and Uncertain Tone...
Silent Retreat (2013) **1/2Dir. Tricia LeeStarring: Chelsea Jenish, Robert Nolan, Sofia BanzhafReview By Greg KlymkiwThere are simply so many things wrong about this movie which, makes it especially...
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BURT'S BUZZ - Review By Greg Klymkiw - One of Canada's Most Dynamic...
In addition to having it's World Premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival 2013, Burt's Buzz, Jody Shapiro's fine documentary portrait of Burt Shavitz, the public face of Burt's Bees health...
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THE BEST OFFER - Review By Greg Klymkiw - Festival Preview Review for the...
The Niagara Integrated Film Festival launches its first exciting season June 19-22, 2014 inclusive. You're probably wondering about the "integration" aspect of this cultural event and I can assure you...
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5 SHORT FILMS/ 1 NIGHT - Reviews By Greg Klymkiw - Reviews of recent CCE...
5 SHORT FILMS / 1 NIGHT: The Canadian Cinema Editors (CCE) presents a screening at The Royal Cinema of 5 short films all nominated at this years annual CCE awards. Editors:Paul Day,Ray Savaya,Erin...
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A KIND OF WONDERFUL THING - Review By Greg Klymkiw - Sweet, Funny, Quirky &...
The Niagara Integrated Film Festival launches its first exciting season June 19-22, 2014 inclusive. You're probably wondering about the "integration" aspect of this cultural event and I can assure you...
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BLOOD GLACIER - Review By Greg Klymkiw - Oh, those wacky Germans!!! Sinister...
BLOOD GLACIER has it all. Check this out. It's got: Germans, mutants, Alps, a cute dog, a blood glacier, a balding unkempt alcoholic hero, snow, ice, weasel-like scientists, weird-ass shit under...
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DEAD BEFORE DAWN 3D - Review By Greg Klymkiw - Dreadful Canadian...
LOWEST FILM CORNER RATING:Delivered to films too bad to garner one-star (*).Said films would normally then receive the "One Pubic Hair" rating, however, not to besmirch the fine pubic hair recipient...
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FOUR CORNERS - Review By Greg Klymkiw - Shattering South African Crime-Drama...
Brilliant chess prodigy Ricardo (Jezriel Skei)can't escape the influence of criminal gangs.A tattooed prison lifer knows all,because he's seen all and stays alivewith his constant hawk-like gaze.Four...
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GREASE - Review By Greg Klymkiw - Iconic 70s Homage to the 50s from Hit Play...
Do you detect the aroma of our love?Grease (1978) dir. Randall Kleiser **Starring: John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John, Stockard Channing, Didi ConnReview By Greg KlymkiwI hate this movie. I have always...
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DIARY OF A WIMPY KID - Review By Greg Klymkiw - Even the kiddies will be...
Diary of a Wimpy Kid (2010) *dir. Thor FruedenthalStarring: Zachray Gordon, Robert Capley, Devon Bostick, Chloe Grace MoretzReview By Greg KlymkiwThis minor surprise hit is the sort of family film that...
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ANTISOCIAL - Review By Greg Klymkiw - Standard Low-Budget Thriller Signals...
Antisocial (2013) **1/2Dir. Cody CalahanStarring: Michelle MylettReview ByGreg KlymkiwThe final 20 minutes of this low budget Canadian horror film's 92 minute running time features some truly...
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THE PIN - Review By Greg Klymkiw - Scars Inspire Memories of an Eternal Love...
A young girl (Milda Gecaite) confronts anethnic-Russian collaborator in her secrethaven from Nazis searching for Jews.Once again, I am thrilled to report that a terrific new Canadian film, THE PIN,...
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SNAKE & MONGOOSE - Review By Greg Klymkiw
Jesse Williams & Richard Blake as SNAKE & MONGOOSEThe real-life drag racers who partnered with Mattel's HOT WHEELSSnake & Mongoose (2013) ****Dir. Wayne Holloway, Writers: Alan Paradise...
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UNDER THE SKIN - Review By Greg Klymkiw
ADMIT IT, GENTLEMEN (AND LADIES OF THE PROPER PERSUASION), THERE'S REALLY ONLY ONE REASON WHY YOU'D WANT TO SEE THIS PRETENTIOUS, BORING AND MORONIC PIECE OF CRAP!!!CHECK OUT THE JOHANSSON LOVE...
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COME BACK, AFRICA - Review By Greg Klymkiw - Part I of a 2-part report on the...
Can you imagine making a film about Apartheid - in secret, in South Africa - while Nelson Mandela is, at the very same time, on trial for treason? Such a film was made and if one is able to declare...
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RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES - Review By Greg Klymkiw
In preparation for the July 11, 2014 release ofDAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES,let us remind ourselves how dreadfulRISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES is and hope the new film hasa script not comprised...
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Carré blanc - Reviews by Greg Klymkiw - Recent SciFi that makes Under the...
Under The Skin, a film by Jonathan Glazer, is awful. I respect Glazer for trying to make a contemporary Science Fiction picture that isn't just a dumb action movie disguised as Science Fiction, but...
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PATHER PANCHALI (Song of the Little Road) - Review By Greg Klymkiw
Uma Dasgupta plays the sweet, saintly & sadly doomed Durga.Little Durga & Auntie: Birds of a Feather.Pather Panchali (Song of the Little Road (1955) dir. Satyajit Ray *****Starring: Subir...
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DEVI (aka THE GODDESS) - Review By Greg Klymkiw
Devi aka The Goddess (1960) dir. Satyajit Ray *****Starring: Sharmila Tagore, Soumitra Chatterjee, Chhabi Biswas, Karuna Banerjee, Purnendu Mukherjee, Arpan ChowdhuryReview ByGreg Klymkiw“I stopped...
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APARAJITO (The Unvanquished) - Review By Greg Klymkiw - #2 of The Apu Trilogy...
When a mother and child must face the world alone.When a mother must face the world alone.Aparajito (The Unvanquished) (1956) Dir. Satyajit Roy *****Starring: Smaran Ghosal, Pinaki Sen Gupta, Karuna...
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