Now that the sun has finally set on 2020, the year that wouldn’t end, Taste of Cinema offers up our favorites from the exciting and upsetting year that was. To anyone of the opinion that 2020 was a mediocre year for movies, you just weren’t looking hard enough. But you’d also be forgiven as, owing to the global pandemic, this was a challenging year for moviegoers and moviemakers alike.
That said however, we do admit that the films that of the films that did see release, even just narrowing those titles down to a workable 20 titles for this list was no small feat – I cringe at the many worthy films that didn’t make the cut or that we weren’t able to screen in our region (and be sure to look at the Honourable Mentions section for more list-worthy titles).
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It’s always interesting to look at an established filmmaker’s earlier work as opposed to their later, more polished films. Occasionally, you get a mixture of both in the same movie.
The Little Things is a screenplay that John Lee Hancock developed way back in the ’90s, with
Steven Spielberg intended as the director, though the cinematic legend ultimately passed on it because it was just too dark for his sensibilities.
The Little Things follows Kern County Deputy Sheriff Joe “Deke” Deacon (
Denzel Washington), who is sent to Los Angeles for what should have been a quick evidence-gathering assignment. Instead, he becomes embroiled in the search for a killer who is terrorizing the city. Leading the hunt, L.A. Sheriff Department Sergeant Jim Baxter (
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To paraphrase
Wonder Woman 1984villain/meme Maxwell Lord, “Life is bad . but it can get worse.” Thanks to a depressingly slow vaccine rollout, moviegoing isn’t likely to return to anything resembling normalcy until the summer, and maybe even longer. (I don’t mean to be defeatist, merely realistic.) So from now until then/whenever, what do restless, frustrated, desperate Canadian audiences need to know about 2021 moviegoing? Here are my best answers.