Shoot the Glass

To say that Tokyo! is a strange concoction would be to undersell it quite a bit. Three directors here present their own, separate, forty-minute segments — and they’re all inventive and a little bit crazy.
Michel Gondry’s Interior Design is about a young couple having just moved to Tokyo. He is an aspiring filmmaker, she seems [...]

Adoration is the latest from Canadian director Atom Egoyan. It tells the story of a young man called Simon (Devon Bostick), an orphan who lives with his uncle (Scott Speedman). One day, Simon’s French teacher reads an old newspaper article to the class, for them to translate. It’s about a man who planted a bomb [...]

Oliver Stone has always been hit-and-miss with me. Sometimes he’s brilliant (JFK, Platoon), but sometimes he gives us the worst movie of the year (Alexander). Regardless of the end result though, he always seems to put his heart and soul into any project.
This hit-and-miss aspect of Stone’s career is distilled into W., the movie about [...]

Poppy (Sally Hawkins) is a cheerful kind of person. Insanely cheerful. Nothing can get Poppy down. She goes through life with a smile on her lips and open arms.
Before seeing this movie, I had heard that some people find Poppy annoying. Being a rather cynical person myself, I was worried I would too. I needn’t [...]

Henry Poole (Luke Wilson) is dying. He abandons his old life and moves into a house in the street where he grew up. He eats only pizza and donuts, and drinks vodka. Lots and lots of vodka.
One day, his nosy neighbour Esperanza (Adriana Barraza) discovers a water stain on the side of Henry’s house which [...]