Eric Lavallée

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Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist, and critic at IONCINEMA.com, established in 2000. A regular at Sundance, Cannes, and Venice, Eric holds a BFA in film studies from the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013, he served on the narrative competition jury at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson’s "This Teacher" (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). He is a Golden Globes Voter, member of the ICS (International Cinephile Society), FIPRESCI and AQCC (Association québécoise des critiques de cinéma).

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DVD Review: Doubt [Blu-ray]

"The exercise that is Doubt – is a rarity in film, viewer's beliefs and pre-conceived feelings about the guilty and innocence change on the flip of a coin, get challenged or remain firm over the progression of the just under 2 hour feature."

Quantum of Solace [Blu-ray] | DVD Review

"After stripping the franchise from the elements that anchored it down as in gadget-overload, tacky one-liners, facile bed-partners and over-zealous villains, the film feels further depleted to the point where Forster doesn’t even allow viewers to enjoy the film's biggest selling point: the action sequences."

Doubt [Blu-ray] | DVD Review

"The exercise that is Doubt – is a rarity in film, viewer's beliefs and pre-conceived feelings about the guilty and innocence change on the flip of a coin, get challenged or remain firm over the progression of the just under 2 hour feature."

Sweet Poster Art for In the Loop

Looks like the IFC folks and filmmaker Armando Iannucci are making the most out of a Tribeca Film Festival showing, supporting the movie early on with some poster art eye candy (retro fit) which eventually comes out July 24th.

An Ode to Both Loves: Trailer for Ken Loach’s Looking for Eric

Judging by the trailer, Palme d'or winning director Ken Loach (The Wind that Shakes the Barley) will be bringing a social realist essay that might be a little bit more hopeful than his previous efforts to the competition this year. In Looking for Eric, it is the working class hero (clearly having some sort of conflict) seeks out the inspirational teachings of from his own hero in football (soccer) legend Eric Cantona

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2026 TIFF: Amanda Kernell, Irene Dionisio & John Trengove Films Among Dozen Platform Comp Selections

Earlier this year, the Academy Awards announced that the...
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