It seems to have faded away a bit, but one of the easiest strawman critiques of a movie is, “It’s like a video game.” The response is two-fold: a.) That often ...
If
you know anything about the independent film world, it won't be surprising to
discover the project writer/director Justin McConnell is hoping to get off the...
When Yeon Sang-ho was conceiving his new film Peninsula, the much-anticipated follow-up to his surprise 2016 hit zombie action film Train to Busan, there was n...
It’s complicated.
Well, not so much ethically. Taghi Amirani’s documentary Coup 53 is pretty clear-cut in that way. Instead, it is complicated simply becaus...
The world isn't what it used to be no matter how vehemently a Republican believes the opposite when explaining that the 1791 ratification of an American's "rig...
Barry
(Gary Green) is a piece of work. He's a deadbeat husband to Suz (Chanelle de
Jager), deadbeat dad to their son, and all-around deadbeat to Cape Town on t...
At 130 minutes, Skin: A History of Nudity in the Movies has a clear trajectory. Well, make that a clear enough trajectory. Dipping its toes into present-day be...
On its most superficial horror flick level, Jay Baruchel's latest directorial effort Random Acts of Violence works. Co-adapted with Jesse Chabot from Justin Gr...
If you go on Kurt Kunkle’s Instagram, you will find stories filled with “pull yourself up by your bootstraps” American happy talk. Kurt leans in, and mostly fa...
With a clear reverence for sci-fi horror landmarks, principally Alien, the new Russian feature Sputnik looks to crash-land into the genre with high ambitions. ...
