Calum Marsh
Calum Marsh is a freelance film critic and columnist based in Toronto. He contributes reviews and essays to Slant, Film.com, MUBI, and Cinema Scope.
By Calum Marsh
| April 17, 2013
From the moment of its opening salvo, a jarring cut from black to a nightclub interior timed to the first beat of the Jay-Z/Linkin Park mash-up “Numb/Encore,” Vice plunges us deep within an aesthetic all its own, its world of gangland subterfuge and drug-running intrigue painted in streaks of cobalt and grey.
By Calum Marsh
| March 28, 2013
Few accusations can make a film critic bristle as much as the claim that they are “reading too much into” something, whether it be a scene, shot, or gesture. Nobody wants to seem in thrall to an overactive imagination.