The Gift (2015)
2022-08-08
It elevates dialog above overt confrontation and cheap twists, and features everyday encounters packaged as the horror next door.Continue Reading
Resident Evil (2002) Twenty Years On
2022-05-15
All things told, Mila has us wanting to trade away our brains if it meant the chance to nibble on her from the ass up.Continue Reading
Unsane (2018): A Reintroduction to Steven Soderbergh
2022-01-04
Unsane wouldn’t be out of place on the Coens’ IMDb page. It could well be Soderbergh’s very own Burn after Reading.Continue Reading
Tiger Raid (2016): About Blooldlust and Wanderlust
2021-10-17
As much as there is to admire, an equal amount frustrates viewers to no end.Continue Reading
The Terminator (1984): The Day Cameron Renounced Canada for Good
2021-06-20
The gun-toting fireworks, metal-on-metal mayhem categorically unmoor Cameron from all his Canadian sensibilities.Continue Reading
Green Room (2015) & Midsommar (2019): a Satisfying “Sophomore” Double Bill
2021-06-06
Both films survive the hype built up from the previous entry from each director.Continue Reading
Intrusive Memories in The Invitation (2015)
2021-05-27
Memories are life’s ephemera and they’re served in morsels. Plus a dinner party from hell.Continue Reading
Lavender (2016) & The Block Island Sound (2020): Home Shall Never be the Same
2021-04-22
These two films tease out ideas about our baggage but only slightly beyond the surface level.Continue Reading
She’s Gotta Have It (1986)
2020-12-25
Must be taken with a grain of salt because at the height of the AIDS scare the idea of a woman shacking up with three lovers simultaneously would not fly.Continue Reading
