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Thomas O'Connor

Thomas O'Connor is a Montreal-based amateur film critic and life-long movie buff. When not studying film at Concordia's Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema or serving customers at Avenue Video, one of the island's best and last video stores, Thomas can usually be found watching anything from Hong Kong action flicks, superhero blockbusters, indie horror and even occasionally something that doesn't involve monsters, explosions or people in spandex. Follow his inane ramblings on Twitter at @TomTypesWords

ArtsFilmFriday Film Review

Mad Max: Fury Road is Smart and Furious and Beautiful

I complain a lot about mainstream action movies. While people try and talk me down with endless chants of “It’s just a dumb action movie!” and “you’re not supposed to think about it!” I’m sitting there thinking about plotting, characterization, camera movement, editing. It’s not something I can help, it’s just part of my programming. […]

By Thomas O'ConnorMay 22, 2015May 28, 2015
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Avengers: Age of Ultron is a Big, Fun, Mess

It took me somewhat longer that expected to get to Avengers: Age of Ultron, the finale to the “second wave” of the Marvel Cinematic Universe movies and the informal beginning to Summer Movie Season for this year. In the time since it hit screens, Ultron has been a tad divisive, and people continue to argue […]

By Thomas O'ConnorMay 15, 2015May 15, 2015
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The Strange Color of Your Body’s Tears: How do Overdo Basically Everything

A good friend of mine sold me on The Strange Color of Your Body’s Tears as a modern throwback to Giallo horror films: Italian-made flicks usually from the 70s and 80s known for their lurid sexuality, rampant stylization and plots usually so batshit insane, you could use them as high-quality fertilizer and produce roses red […]

By Thomas O'ConnorMay 8, 2015
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Nightflyers is the George R.R. Martin adaption you never knew existed

With the release of Avengers: Age of Ultron, summer movie season has officially begun. It’s one of my favorite times of the year, because one of the kinds of movies I like best, and feel most comfortable and confident assessing critically, is being catapulted at audiences worldwide like flaming boulders at an invading barbarian army. With […]

By Thomas O'ConnorMay 1, 2015
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Le Miaff was four days of animated delights

The idea of a film festival that specializes in animated films is something I think a lot of people could get behind. It seems like more animation studios open up locally every day, and there’s certainly enough enthusiasts of the animated arts around that they alone should make the idea a no-brainer. Though I didn’t […]

By Thomas O'ConnorApr 24, 2015
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It Follows is another decent modern horror film that suffers from over-hype

Whenever a new horror film comes out and starts garnering rave reviews from people in the know, my reaction is usually to have my eyebrow thrust skyward with the force of an Apollo rocket. I’m not generally a fan of modern horror movies, which is to say I hold them in the same regard as […]

By Thomas O'ConnorApr 17, 2015
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le MIAFF Preview: Your Guide to a Weekend of Awesome Animated Films

Montreal summer is a great time for film festivals. Fantasia, FIFA, FNC, WFF – there’s something for everyone to go to, no matter where your interests in film are. A festival I look forward to covering for the first time is starting today: the Montreal International Animation Film Festival, or MIAFF. As much as MIAFF is […]

By Thomas O'ConnorApr 16, 2015Apr 16, 2015
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Guys, calm down, Furious 7 isn’t that amazing

It took me a while to warm up to the Fast and the Furious series, and even now I’m not sure why I’ve come to begrudgingly enjoy them, or at least some of them. I mean – they aren’t good. There are better car chase movies, better fight movies, better ensemble casts. And yet I […]

By Thomas O'ConnorApr 10, 2015
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ArtsFilmFriday Film Review

Lucy Wants to be Smarter than it Actually is

Roundabouts six months ago, a friend and I set out to see Luc Besson’s Lucy during its theatrical run. We hadn’t seen each other in a while and were chatting so merrily that we accidentally went to the wrong theatre. When we found out our mistake, we shrugged it off and decided to sit through […]

By Thomas O'ConnorApr 3, 2015Apr 3, 2015
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The Tale of Princess Kaguya is Beautiful, Enchanting, and Maybe not for Everyone

For a long time I believed, elitist scum that I was, that there are really two kinds of Ghibli movies: the ones Miyazaki himself did, and everything else. But really, I was wrong. There’s the ones Miyazaki did, the Isao Takahata ones, and everything else. Takahata’s Ghibli movies aren’t really like any other Ghibli films, […]

By Thomas O'ConnorMar 28, 2015
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ArtsFilmFriday Film Review

Chappie – A Promising Director Continues to Disappoint

I have a feeling that by starting his career on District 9, Neill Blomkamp may have done himself, and the rest of us for that matter, a bit of a disservice. After coming out of the gate with one of the most original, inventive, thoughtful, and just all-around good sci-fi films of the decade, Blompkamp […]

By Thomas O'ConnorMar 20, 2015
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ArtsFilmFriday Film Review

A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night is further proof that vampire movies aren’t dead

This is why when someone like me hears the phrase “Iranian vampire movie,” we make that little interested noise that normal people make when they hear “free booze” or “willing sexual partner.”

By Thomas O'ConnorMar 14, 2015Mar 16, 2015
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ArtsFilmFriday Film Review

Time travel is getting old, and ‘Predestination’ isn’t helping

Oh goody-goddamn-gumdrops, another time travel movie. You know, I’m starting to feel like time travel is the zombies of science fiction.

By Thomas O'ConnorMar 6, 2015Mar 18, 2015
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ArtsFilmFriday Film Review

Kingsman: The Secret Service is just pure post-grit fun

Kingsman is a cool example of post-grit cinema.

By Thomas O'ConnorFeb 27, 2015Feb 27, 2015
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Jupiter Ascending is a big, ridiculous mess, but I can’t help but admire it

Jupiter Ascending is so unashamedly over-the-top, that you can’t help but admire it.

By Thomas O'ConnorFeb 20, 2015Feb 20, 2015
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Spider-Man is joining the Marvel Cinematic Universe, here’s what that means

Since last year, one of the biggest questions circulating in entertainment news (or at the very least, the entertainment news I care about enough to follow) has been: “What’s to become of that there Spider-Man?” Since The Amazing Spider-Man 2 underperformed at the box office and with the critics (both for good reasons), rumors have […]

By Thomas O'ConnorFeb 13, 2015Feb 13, 2015
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