A Bay Street Film Festival Review Third World Canada Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug (KI) is one of 30 remote Aboriginal communities in Northern Ontario above the 50th parallel and accessible only by air (or winter roads). Governed by the Indian Act, the First Nation is considered one of the more prosperous remote Aboriginal communities, but in director Andrée Cazabon’s film Third World [...]

This year’s Bay Street Film Festival proved that film going and filmmaking (there were many local films that screened) is alive and well in the city of Thunder Bay. With over 45 diverse local, national and international films to choose from, the festival theme “films for the people” was fitting indeed. Films included documentaries like Ron Harpelle’s In Security about [...]

By Patrick Thompson “The American” is so good it might end up boring people. I mean this in all seriousness. Here are my top five reasons that you might not like this movie. Take it as a quiz. If you can make it through all of them without thinking, “Well, that’s all very good, but I won’t have any of [...]

The Last Exorcism: Atheists Beware Film Review by Patrick Thompson This film is great for a majority of its length, but beware – it will end up disappointing you. For those who enjoy a little bit of a kick at organized religion, or atheists of all colors, it will be of a particularly bitter nature. Not because it is another [...]

Despicable Me Review IF YOU HAVE KIDS, SPLURGE FOR THE 3D By Patrick Thompson I call it now—the many and varied yellow minions of evil Dr. Gru (he that is despicable) in this movie are going to be everywhere in the marketing campaign for “Despicable Me 2” (due 2013—yes, already). They were really very cute and my six-year-old friend thought [...]

The Last Airbender Review By Patrick Thompson Do you all remember how great 1999 was? There was an electricity in the air as we waited for 2000 and Y2K to strike, it seemed as though there would never be a deficit again and Bush was a good governor who couldn’t start wars yet. Plus, the movies were great. The Matrix, [...]

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This Movie Sucks. Kevin Durand Doesn’t. Hometown boy (and one time rapper/comedian) Kevin Durand is in this movie for literally about 10 minutes, and he does a great job. He portrays one of the legend’s main characters, Little John, but you wouldn’t know it from the movie, where the story’s traditional secondary characters have been reduced to plot fodder. Here [...]

by Patrick Thompson Comic book adaptations have gotten a lot better in recent years, but their failure is still that they pander to as wide an audience as possible. The good ones will always have a mixed bag of tricks to draw audiences in, but the classics will have a focus that will always be nicely spiced by the humour, [...]

by Tiffany Jarva I so wanted to love Tim Burton’s version of Wonderland. That’s because the fantastical Burton doing his version of wonderland seemed like a no-brainer: dark, innovative, imaginative filmmaker meets the dreamy nonsensical world of Lewis Carroll. Apparently Burton, a master of creating mood (The Nightmare Before Christmas, Edward Scissorhands), wanted to create a new film version of [...]