The historical drama Lincoln leads this year’s Oscar race with 12 nominations, closely followed by Life of Pi with 11. Both films are competing for best picture along with Beasts of the Southern Wild Silver Linings Playbook Zero Dark Thirty Les Misérables Amour Django Unchained Argo Lincoln’s director Steven Spielberg and actors Daniel Day-Lewis, Sally […]
The Vancouver Film Critics Circle has named Kim Nguyen’s Rebelle the best Canadian film of the year while Toronto critics chose Sarah Polley’s Stories We Tell. Inexplicably, Toronto did not even nominate Rebelle. About a young African girl’s harrowing journey as a child soldier, Rebelle also picked up awards for Rachel Mwanza as best actress […]
by Allan Tong for FILMbutton Rebels attack a poor village somewhere in Africa and force 12-year-old Komona to shoot her parents in cold blood. The rebels force her into their child army where they regularly beat her and teach her to fire an AK-47. After drinking “magic milk” Komona sees her dead parents, who warn […]
