Results tagged “reelheart”

For some reason, this year we're already tired of the summer blockbuster schedule. It's only mid-June and we've already had multiple superhero movies, CGI films, and big-budget comedies. Maybe it's that desperate urge to not get killed by poor word-of-mouth that leads to another "must see!" movie every week until you can't remember the last film you were told was "must see!", but we're exhausted.

Well, we've listed the films that are showing at this week's NXNE festival, but we haven't particularly shown any opinion about which you should go and see. Until now! Our pick, above all, is Agile, Mobile, Hostile: A Year in the Life of Andre Williams, which plays the NFB Cinema at 1:15 p.m. this Saturday. Tim Perlich at NOW complains, "[directors] Matthies and Todd are unable to put [Williams's] sad current state in proper historical perspective," but we're still interested to see a film about Williams's current life. For a quick introduction to his work (and for some historical perspective), you couldn't do much better than checking out his song "Jail Bait." Pretty amazing—or amazingly offensive, depending on your point of view!