Greg Klymkiw's 10 Best DVD and Blu-Ray Releases of 2013 - Don't rent or...
The 10 Best DVD and Blu-Ray Releases of 2013(in alphabetical order)By Greg KlymkiwAmerican MaryAnchor Bay Entertainment CanadaThe Blu-Ray edition of American Mary, one of the best Horror films made in...
View ArticleTHE HOBBIT: THE DESOLATION OF SMAUG - Review By Greg Klymkiw - The Decimation...
Do any hobbits wish to clog dance?The happy folk of the Shire need to kill a dragon, but will they? "By the big toe of Bilbo Baggins," you ask, "Will they?" Well, all I'm willing to say is it's going...
View ArticleOUT OF THE FURNACE - Review By Greg Klymkiw - Neo-Noir enshrouds Rust Belt's...
Out of the Furnace (2013) ***1/2Dir. Scott CooperStarring: Christian Bale, Casey Affleck, Woody Harrelson,Willem Dafoe, Sam Shepard, Zoe Saldana, Forest WhitakerReview By Greg KlymkiwWhen a movie opens...
View ArticlePARANORMAL ACTIVITY - Review By Greg Klymkiw - #1 still packs a wallop on the...
A 5th Paranormal Activity is now out there in the world. Though the sequels to the original have had a few decent frissons, nothing held up to the first serving of the found footage ghost story. For...
View ArticlePARANORMAL ACTIVITY: THE MARKED ONES - Review By Greg Klymkiw - The Dreaded...
More of the same found footage activities of the paranormal kind come our way in this fifth instalment of the ghostly horror series about witchcraft and demonic possession captured by people who seem...
View ArticleTHE POSSESSION OF JOEL DELANY - Review By Greg Klymkiw - Flawed 70s shocker...
After I slice and dice these kids,I'll go on to star in MANDINGO.The Possession of Joel Delaney (1972) **1/2dir. Waris HusseinStarring: Shirley MacLaine, Perry King, Edmundo Rivera AlvarezReview By...
View ArticleTIFF 2013 - Electric Sheep Report by Greg Klymkiw on MISCELLANY - The final...
TIFF 2013 offers up a Cornucopia of Cinema for ALL! Greg Klymkiw's COLONIAL REPORTfrom the Dominion of Canadaon the Toronto International Film Festival 2013for ELECTRIC SHEEP UK - a deviant view of...
View ArticleINVICTUS - Review By Greg Klymkiw - This great film about Nelson Mandela well...
Anthony Peckham's superb screenwriting as directed by the venerable Clint Eastwood seems a fitting movie to experience after Nelson Mandela's Death on Dec. 5, 2013.Invictus (2009) ****dir. Clint...
View ArticleJEWS OF WINNIPEG - DO NOT MISS SEEING ALAN ZWEIG'S AWARD WINNING "WHEN JEWS...
GILBERT GOTTFRIED SAYS:"HEY, JEWS OF WINNIPEG!YA' GOTTA' SEE THIS MOVIE!"DO NOT MISSWHEN JEWS WERE FUNNYDavid Steinberg is fromWinnipegHe is a JewYou Can See Him inWHEN JEWS WERE FUNNYat the Winnipeg...
View ArticleLONE SURVIVOR - Review By Greg Klymkiw - Racist War Propaganda Poses Dilemma...
Fact-based tale of Navy Seal Marcus Luttrell (played by Mark Wahlberg), the only American survivor of an Afghanistan mission gone wrong and leading to the deaths of 19 soldiers at the hands of Taliban...
View ArticleTHESE ARE THE DAMNED - Review By Greg Klymkiw - Teddy Boys, Incest, Oliver...
These are THE DAMNED (1961) ***1/2dir. Joseph LoseyStarring: MacDonald Carey, Shirley Anne Field, Oliver Reed, Viveca Lindfors and Alexander KnoxReview By Greg KlymkiwBlacklisted American filmmaker...
View ArticleTHE INVISIBLE WOMAN - Review By Greg Klymkiw
The Invisible Woman (2013) ***Dir. Ralph FiennesStarring: Felicity Jones, Ralph Fiennes, Kristin Scott Thomas, Tom Hollander, Joanna ScanlanReview By Greg KlymkiwThe May-December romance is always a...
View ArticleFORGOTTEN WINNIPEG - By Greg Klymkiw - Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra in...
The Winnipeg Film Group Cinematheque presents a special series of films in conjunction with the WSO’s New Music Festival featuring Ang Lee’s The Ice Storm with a brilliant score by Winnipeg-born...
View ArticleBLANK CITY - Review By Greg Klymkiw - Terrific documentary focuses on...
The Winnipeg Film Group Cinematheque presents a special series of films in conjunction with SPUR and the WSO’s New Music Festival featuring Ang Lee’s The Ice Storm with a brilliant score by...
View ArticleMOURNING HAS BROKEN - Review By Greg Klymkiw - Death, Denial and the...
Mourning Has Broken (2014) ****Dir. Brett M. Butler, Jason G. ButlerStarring: Robert NolanReview By Greg KlymkiwThere aren't many actors in Canada these days who are as intense, versatile and blessed...
View ArticleTESLA IN NEW YORK - Greg Klymkiw's Report on the World Premiere of the...
History is made in Historic Winnipeg,the Forgotten Winter City of Death, Dreams and Dashed HopesJIM JARMUSCH:"MUSIC is the most beautiful form of artistic expression.FILM is the most closely related...
View ArticleSURVIVAL LESSONS: THE GREG KLYMKIW STORY - Review By Greg Klymkiw -Forgotten...
GUY MADDIN on his Longtime Producer GREG KLYMKIW:"As roommates, occasional nude sightings are inevitable.One day I spied Greggy sleeping naked, his posterior facing me.He looked like one of those cute...
View ArticleNEGATIVIPEG - Review By Greg Klymkiw - The Forgotten Winnipeg Film Series...
Negativipeg (2010) *****dir. Matthew RankinStarring: Rory Lepine, Burton CummingsReview By Greg KlymkiwThis is, without a doubt, one of the greatest short films I have ever seen. Given that I've seen a...
View ArticleRIO LOBO - Review By Greg Klymkiw - Ho-Hum Howard Hawks is better than no...
Rio Lobo (1970) **1/2dir. Howard HawksStarring John Wayne, Jorge Rivero, Christopher Mitchum, Jennifer O’Neill, Sherry Lansing and Jack ElamReview By Greg KlymkiwWhile I have fond memories of Rio Lobo...
View ArticleLA GRANDE BELLEZZA (THE GREAT BEAUTY) - Review By Greg Klymkiw - Sorrentino's...
The Great Beauty (2013) *****Dir. Paolo SorrentinoStarring: Toni ServilloReview By Greg KlymkiwPaolo Sorrentino's The Great Beauty opens with a bang - literally. A cannon blasts right into our faces -...
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