The MCU is a hive mind. That is, a majority of its entries can come off as flavorless exercises in staying “on brand” at the expense of identity and aesthetic. ...
When someone kills seventeen people over a thirteen-year span with words like necrophilia and cannibalism circling each murder, sympathy for the predator — not ...
Arriving just in time to kick off the holiday season, A Bad Moms Christmas is exactly as structurally safe and verbally vulgar as one might expect. Based off th...
The new Japanese animation house Studio Ponoc, founded and staffed by veterans of Studio Ghibli, has made a mission statement with its first feature, Mary and T...
It's easy for Americans to look at a film like Eli Roth's Hostel and find themselves afraid of the situation presented as one they could fall prey to if the cir...
Beyond the tragedy of Gord Downie's terminal cancer diagnosis on a personal level for his friends, family, and The Tragically Hip bandmates, the idea that we wo...
Back from either the dead or a seven-year sabbatical when he last appeared in the now-misleading Saw 3D: The Final Chapter in 2010, the latest reincarnation of ...
For every The Best Years of Our Lives, there are dozens of Act of Valors. Despite fairly few war films concerning the aftermath and coming home, PTSD has inflic...
Grief is a strange, personal, and often entirely unexpected reponse to tragedy. It will differ depending on who you are, the point in life you're at, the cause,...
To see that Korean cinema is at a healthy place right now, one must look no further than the official selection of the Cannes Film Festival this year. Besides t...
