must see films

Time is just a perception. Or so I kept reassuring myself as I sat down to watch The End of Time and experienced the slowest

The first installment of The Hobbit films is an awe inspiring cinematic experience that brings the J.R.R. Tolkien world to life in such amazing detail

The Life of Pi is a harrowing story of a young boy who finds himself stranded at sea on a small life-boat. With only a

Leos Carax’s Holy Motors is a paean to cinema itself, an elegiac yet energetic drive across genres to a terminal destination that hints that the

You know that you’ve seen a good film when as soon as the credits roll, you want to start it over again to relive the experience. This

True Hype Production’s latest black comedy Mon Ami had it’s Vancouver premiere last weekend.  A small company comprised of four Capilano University grads, True Hype

From the first ethnic twangs of the sitar on its score, one feels comfortably served by Deepa Mehta’s adaptation of Salman Rushdie’s landmark 1980 novel,

Of the many varied films screening at VIFF this year, there were a number of shorts that played before longer features. One of these was

hates you. Okay, it probably doesn’t. But there are a few things about you that it really doesn’t like. First and foremost, it has utter

Abbas Kiarostami’s Like Someone In Love (2012) isn’t quite a “copy” of his 2010 masterpiece Certified Copy transposed to Tokyo—more like a warped reflection, or,

Nestled deep in the maddening inconsistencies of Young-Joo Byun’s dramatic thriller are moments of raw emotional genius.  Alternately melodramatic and understated, Helpless is sometimes a

Everyone steals a little something from work now and then, right?  Paper clips, pencil sharpeners, infectious diseases from the bodies of our favourite celebrities –