Peter Howell’s Night Vision: Movie Blogger & Reviews

A local honour for a national treasure

On Monday, night, the Toronto Film Critics Association awarded Canadian First Nations filmmaker Alanis Obomsawin the group's prestigious...

Operation Avalanche

Director Matt Johnson (holding microphone) introduces the cast and crew of Operation Avalanche at a Q and A session following the film's...

The O.K. Corral

Sundance, the annual indie film bash in Park City, Utah, takes place every January. It's full winter in the stunning Wasatch Range of...

Dudley Andrew’s misguided “Target of Film Theory”

By M.L. Bream Cinema is, and has been, undergoing an undeniable shift in recent decades with the advent and propagation of digital...

An Inventory of FX: Marshall McLuhan Revisited

Since first publishing “The Medium is the Massage: An Inventory of Effects” in 1967, Marshall McLuhan’s theories of media’s impact on...

Binge is the New Black: Netflix and Contemporary Cinematic Practices

In his seminal 1971 essay “Technique and Ideology: Camera, Perspective, Depth of Field,” Jean-Louis Comolli calls for a...

Cinematic Identification: Holding a Mirror up to the Spectator through the Theories of Metz and Els

By Emily Howell → If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? Likewise, if a man lives without...

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Movies I Can't Live Without

Toronto Star movie critic 𝗣𝗲𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗛𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗹𝗹 has written a book about his 25 most-loved films, with highly personal reviews from "Apocalypse Now" to "The Wizard of Oz." Here's a sample of his review of "2001: A Space Odyssey," his all-time favourite:

"It was billed as The Ultimate Trip and the hyperbole was justified, then as now.

Stanley Kubrick's space opus still seems like the future, 56 years after its release and 23 years after its significant title year. It never gets old and I never tire of seeing it, even after 50-plus viewings ...." 🌓