by john davidson for FILMbutton The first thing you need to know about director Ingrid Veninger’s The Animal Project is that the hugs are free. And if free hugs sound good to you right about now, then seek out this new Canadian Indie gem and start feeling the love yourself. Aaron Poole stars in this […]
by eva attali katz for FILMbutton Director Abbey Jack Neidik draws his inspiration from his grandmother who grew up as an ultra-Orthodox Jew. He chooses to depict in a positive light how he sees Shekinah, (a feminine word meaning the presence of God in Hebrew) in the girls from a seminary in Ste. Agathe, Quebec […]
by shael stolberg for FILMbutton When The Garden Was Eden is Michael Rapaport’s love letter to the 69- 73 New York Knicks teams, who played in the new Madison square gardens and, wholeheartly, captured the attention of “the city that never sleeps”. The team had, at least, 5 basketball hall of famers, one senator, one […]
by shael stolberg for FILMbutton Art is the opposite of Democracy By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he’s been bought ten times over. All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world. Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale. I never miss a chance […]
by shael stolberg In recent years their has been a proliferation of “issue” docs or films that want you to care and/or act for a “cause” in which they care deeply. Whether or not we believe in the cause, nobody truly wants to feel lectured to even if its in their best interest. To Stephaine […]
by allan tong for FILMbutton This year’s Palme d’Or winner at Cannes is a gripping, powerful, but also meandering three-hour journey through a young woman’s lesbian relationship. Carrying the picture is Adèle Exarchopoulos as Adèle, a high schooler who falls for the slightly older, blue-haired painter, Emma (Léa Seydoux). They fall into a torrid relationship. […]
by allan tong for FILMbutton Ron Woodruff was a foul-mouthed, ill-mannered redneck who contracted AIDS in 1986. Back then only queers got AIDS, and Dallas was as redneck as it got. Woodruff lost his job, trailer home and friends. A driven, stubborn fellow, he sought every possible cure he could find whether or not it […]
by allan tong for FILMbutton Matt and Owen are two middle-class American film geeks who make thinly-veiled homages to their film heroes, from Kubrick to Tarantino. Like any geeks, they’re bullied at school and ignored by the pretty girls. Gradually, the beatings and tauntings get to them and they embrace thoughts of revenge. The Dirties […]
by allan tong for FILMbutton Gravity feels like it strayed from one of the summer blockbuster screens into TIFF where adult dramas herald the next Oscar season. None of this matters, because Gravity is an amazing thriller about two American astronauts who are hurtled into outer space after enduring an accident at their spacecraft. Sandra […]
by allan tong for FILMbutton Fading Gigolo was one of this year’s TIFF films that had buyers buzzing…until they saw it. Noted actor John Turturro writes and directs this starring vehicle for himself who becomes a high-price callboy for upscale Manhattan women like Sharon Stone. Woody Allen plays his 76-year-old pimp and steals every scene […]
