Articles by Phil Brown
TIFF Review: Imogene
"This is one of those comedies we've seen far too many of in the 2000s." — Read More
TIFF Review: The Iceman
"Even before his mass murdering ways, Kuklinski was someone who had no problem living a double life." — Read More
Essential Cinema: The Phantom of the Paradise
"Few filmmakers can craft a deranged genre outing like Brian De Palma, and this movie represents the director at his most unhinged" — Read More
Essential Cinema: The 400 Blows
"It's a movie that appears to be comprised more of captured moments like a documentary than a rigidly scripted story" — Read More
Essential Cinema: Harold and Maude
A comedy made by old hippies who mean it for young cynics who need it — Read More
Essential Cinema: Jaws
Steven Spielberg thought a non-functional shark would end his career; it didn't quite turn out that way — Read More
From Rome With Love
Highlights of Toronto's first Italian Contemporary Film Festival — Read More
Essential Cinema: Dr. Strangelove: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
These days, it can be easy to forget just how audacious it was to find humor in nuclear conflict back in 1964 — Read More
Essential Cinema: Blazing Saddles
The jokes in Blazing Saddles have aged like a fine wine and the influence the movie had on the last 38 years of comedy is undeniable — Read More
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