Reeling: Scott Pilgrim vs. The World
Posted by Simon in Film, Reeling, Toronto on 29. Jul, 2010 | 0 Comments
The crowd in the theatre was literally buzzing during a recent advance screening of Edgar Wright’s Scott Pilgrim vs. The World. Everyone’s cell phones had been confiscated and nobody knew what time it actually was. Impatience begat face-to-face conversation and, nerdy and self-indulgent as it was, the energy in the air built to a fever [...]
Reeling: “Up in the Air”
Posted by Jef in Film, Reeling on 07. Jan, 2010 | 2 Comments
If three times equals a trend, “Up in the Air” is where we can start making sense of director Jason Reitman. His previous two films, “Thank You for Smoking” and “Juno”, were both well-received but markedly different. Reitman brought a similar off-beat timing to each project, but one was about a man balancing a reprehensible [...]
