WARNING: Contains Spoilers for Both Films Throughout

The question as to what makes a Canadian film distinctly Canadian has always been an issue for Canadian filmmakers, particularly in regards to their American counterparts. Despite the progress the Canadian film industry has made in getting their films seen by their own people, they still have to compete with the Americans in getting their films noticed.

WARNING: Contains Spoilers For those unaware of the history of Joy Division

Two British films with common themes and characters but which approach their subjects from entirely differing perspectives and virtually opposite aesthetics. The first is Michael Winterbottom’s 24 Hour Party People, which was produced in 2002.

Comparing and contrasting the differing approaches to a shared subject matter as found in the films of Michael Winterbottom and Anton Corbijn which surround Joy Division and Factory Records.

WARNING: Contains spoilers for both films.

September the 11th 2001. The most significant single political event of the current decade came in the form of the destructive attacks launched on the United States of America that day, killing over three-thousand people, severely damaging the Pentagon and destroying The World Trade Center.

Paul Greengrass and Oliver Stone directed two of the first 9/11 feature films. This week we take an extended look at the fundamental differences between their cinematic approaches and the drastic difference in quality which resulted.

WARNING: Contains Spoilers for both films

Since it first aired in 1966 Star Trek has been re-vamped, re-evaluated and re-invigorated through several differing incarnations. The first of these reincarnations came in 1979 in the form of Robert Wise’s feature film Star Trek: The Motion Picture which began a lucrative sub-franchise of blockbuster movies.

Surprisingly the first and latest Star Trek feature films have a lot in common. From Robert Wise's slow and thoughtful odyssey to J.J Abrams sexed up high octane action bonanza.

WARNING: Contains Spoilers for Both Films

American remakes of World Cinema hits is a disease within the film industry, it is a negative activity to partake in especially when the films being remade are relatively new, but even older films should have some amount of protection against the violation of their creative sovereignty by big money Hollywood blockbusters pandering to the current slothenly modern audience.

One of the many Asian films to be remade by Hollywood, this week the examination exposes the expansions and the retractions which are involved in taking Infernal Affairs out of Hong Kong and moving it to Boston as The Departed.

WARNING: Contains spoilers for both films.

It is important to clarify that Danny Boyle’s new film Sunshine is a highly derivative piece of modern cinema. No one can deny this fact. Depending on your view point the film either “bumps” into other films of the same narrow sub genre, nods to those that have come before it, or simply plagiarises some of the best science fiction films ever made.