Movies

• The Last Exorcism Chick goes ‘full demon’ in new horror flick.

• Movie review – Teenage Paparazzo Entourage’s Adam Grenier directs.

• Movie review – Eat Pray Love Opens today. But you knew that.

• Movie Review – Cyrus ‘… naturally he goes around the party verbally expressing his feelings of inadequacy to anyone (well, anyone female) who will listen…’

• Movie Review – This Movie is Broken ‘… watch Brendan Canning go ballistic with headbanging and showgirl kicks on “Meet Me in the Basement”…’

• Documentary Review/Interview – Rush: Beyond the Lighted Stage Tinseltown screens the Rush doc tonight in Vancouver…

• Sex and the City 2 ‘… this movie actually actively pissed me off…’

• Movie Review – Exit Through the Gift Shop ‘… who could be more interesting than a mysterious man like Banksy, who runs all over the world under cover of darkness, provoking outrage and discussion amongst the general public and the elite of the art world alike?’

• Movie Review – Please Give ‘Please Give is full of droll dialogue, and the characters are developed well enough that it doesn’t matter that all they are really doing is talking…’

• Interview – Gunless Director William Phillips ‘… at the same time, we have celebrity envy…’

• Movie Review – The Secret in Their Eyes Academy Award winner opens today in Van…

• First Look at Bad Teacher A photo of Justin Timberlake and Cameron Diaz from Bad Teacher, currently filming in Los Angeles. Gemma La Mana photo

• Interview – Defendor’s Peter Stebbings and Nicholas Tabarrok Rachel Fox talks to the director and producer of Defendor about wrangling Mr. Woody Harrelson for, wtf?, a Canadian superhero movie.

• Interview – Richard Crouse Pt II Remember the time Kris Kristofferson defended Sinead O’Connor against 30,000 angry Americans? What about the nude pictorial with Sarah Miles for The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea…

• Interview – Warren Sonoda Rachel Fox talks to the “King of Canadian Music Videos” about his movie with Samantha Bee, the ancient Hamilton vs. London feud, and Dave Foley’s penis. A Guttersnipe exclusive!

• The Fox Guide to Valentine’s Day Movies A list from Rachel Fox, who DOES NOT plan on ending up on the couch eating ice cream on Feb 14.

• Interview – Richard Crouse The Canada AM film critic trades Oscar quips with Rachel Fox in this no-holds-barred interview from the Victoria Film Festival.

• The 16th Victoria Film Festival Films – and footwear – are the focus of the ‘Cousin Oliver’ of the Canadian Film Festival circuit. In between gastronomic pursuits, Rachel Fox reports.

• Review – Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel Kids will love the slapstick antics, writes Adrian Mack, while parents are left to wonder, ‘Am I watching a kid’s movie or Vertigo on DMT?’

• Review – The White Ribbon The latest dark and broody flick from master of dark and broody Michael Haneke grabs reviewer Rachel Fox and doesn’t let go.

• Review – The Princess and the Frog Adrian Mack takes his kid to The Princess and the Frog and wonders, can Disney ever again replicate the artistic success of The Cat From Outer Space?

• TwitteReview – Avatar “If I see ONE more preview for that shitty retard movie #Avatar, I am going to go piss all over the film wheels at EVERY movie theatre…”

• Whistler Film Festival – It’s a Wrap ‘It doesn’t take a well-trained Canadian cineaste’s eye to determine a film’s national pedigree after a few seconds of watching – our collective ability to immediately recognize that a film is Canadian (sigh) is, in fact, a unique talent that binds us all together…’

• Whistler Film Festival Days 3 & 4 ‘The swank Director’s Guild of Canada’s “Party with Pacey” (Joshua Jackson) was the place to be on Saturday night. Waiters walked around serving beautiful food to beautiful people…’

• Whistler Film Festival Day 2 ‘… Hefner reveals himself to be far more complex and ethically sophisticated than one would expect from a man who wears pajamas all day…’

• Whistler Film Festival Day 1 ‘“Just like a crazy person!” said [Emily] Hampshire, upon seeing the endless scribbles in my spiral-bound notebook…’

• Movie Review – Fantastic Mr. Fox ‘[Wes] Anderson has made a sophisticated children’s film that is faithful to his oeuvre…’

• Interview – Collapse Director Chris Smith ‘Whether he [Michael Ruppert] ends up being proven right or wrong, whether he’s ultimately vindicated or ends up a footnote in history as just another Chicken Little doomsayer, that’s irrelevant. But in terms of this moment right now, I think he feels his life’s work is being acknowledged and taken seriously…’

• Movie Review – 2012 ‘The next two hours of 2012 are very long and very loud… the White House, the Sistine Chapel, and India get destroyed.’

• Movie Review – The Damned United ‘Clough’s renown as a man of swaggering cocksuredness achieved such a level of fame and notoriety that he was parodied – twice – by Monty Python and (good-naturedly) challenged for it by Muhammad Ali…’

• Lists – Best Lady Horror Films ‘Too bad when you finally hear the words… “It’ll be you, me, and the baby!” it’s from a dreamboat who neglected to tell you about how he accidentally cross-infected his DNA with a housefly…’

• 10 Best Horror Films of the Century (So Far) ‘… you really don’t know what it’s about until the very end, and even then it’s like, “Whoah. What the fuck was that?”’

• Movie Review – Where the Wild Things Are ‘In the land of the Wild Things, Max is crowned King; over the course of the film he comes to understand not only why he isn’t, but why he can’t be…’

• Documentary Review – It Might Get Loud ‘It Might Get Loud is porn for rock fetishists and guitar-lovers…’

• Movie Review – Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs ‘Incredibly, the funniest character in the film – a South American camerman-doctor-pilot who might have been a death squad “electrician” for all we know – is voiced by Benjamin Bratt…’

• Movie Review – Antichrist ‘The end credits include references to people who researched misogyny, demology, and a couple of other -ologies… note to von Trier – maybe next time hire a screenwriter, too?’

• Retrospective – The Coen Brothers’ Five Greatest Moments ‘“Man, come on, I had a rough night, and I hate the fuckin’ Eagles..”’

• Jack Kirby? Jack Kirby! What’s next – “Finally, a motion picture with the graceful elegance of a Terence Malick film and the cinematic punch of Frank Miller’s Daredevil # 182!”?

• Movie Review – Jennifer’s Body ‘And why is Jennifer in a narcotic haze when she gets into their van? What is that black goo she keeps vomiting up? Why does Needy kick orderlies?’

• Review – Extract ‘Joel hasn’t been laid in months and he’s tempted by the new factory temp (played by the sultry – okay in this role, slutty – Mila Kunis…’