BATTLESHIP – Review by Linda Barnard

April 12, 2012May 15, 2019 Linda Barnard (Archived Contributor)

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Where else but Hollywood would somebody get the bright idea to take a board game with no human characters and spend more than $200 million spinning it into an alien-invasion flick? LindaBarnard still has a headache from over-the-top BATTLESHIP. Read more>>

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Linda Barnard (Archived Contributor)

Linda Barnard is a freelance film critic and regular reviewer for Canadian film website Original Cin. With a career spanning more than 30 years in Canadian daily newspapers, she was a staff writer at the Toronto Star/thestar.com from 2002 to 2016, joining the Star’s film team in 2007. She continues to cover the Toronto International Film Festival for the Star as a freelancer, along with The National Abu Dhabi. Barnard is a 2014 National Newspaper Award winner (Arts and Entertainment), member of the Toronto Film Critics Association and has participated on film juries, including Canada’s Top Ten, programmed for the Bloor Hot Docs Cinema and volunteers with the Victoria Film Festival in her hometown of Victoria, British Columbia. Follow her on Twitter: @barnardfilm and on Instagram: @barnardwrites