Room

Lenny Abrahamson’s Room -not to be confused with Tommy Wiseau’s The Room– adapts the Emma Donoghue novel of the same name and tells the story of a mother who is raising her son in captivity. This is going to be a hard one to talk about as it should be experienced while knowing as little about it…

EIFF 2015 – Misery Loves Comedy

Kevin Pollak’s documentary Misery Loves Comedy has him ask a large number of people associated with comedy what they think makes them funny. Comedy is a difficult beast at the best of times. We all know what we find funny and can rattle off examples of things we consider to be hilarious but the question of…

On the Silver Screen – Cake

Daniel Barnz’ Cake is the story of Claire (Jennifer Aniston) becoming fascinated by the suicide of a woman she barely knows in her support group as it reminds her of her own personal tragedy. There’s been a lot of discussion lately about this film being snubbed from the Oscars and how much of an injustice…