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[Fantastic Fest Review] V/H/S Viral

With a seemingly economical and swift production, the first V/H/S was an unexpected hit, and has now spawned two sequels. As short films usual have such a small...

[Fantastic Fest Review] Alleluia

Fantastic Fest is where you come to see the weird and Alleluia has that quotient in abundance. The film, which comes as the second part of a soul-crushing trilo...

[Fantastic Fest Review] John Wick

A film that has ambitions beyond the standard action flick perhaps isn’t what you would expect from first-time director Chad Stahelski, but that’s exactly what ...

[Review] The Maze Runner

The low, grumbling whine of the elevator creaking to life is the first sound to permeate the darkness that begins The Maze Runner. When Thomas wakes up, he’s in...

[Review] 20,000 Days on Earth

I must have been nineteen or twenty when I was first introduced to Nick Cave's music. As a college kid trying to broaden my horizons cinematically with "classic...

[TIFF Review] Beats of the Antonov

Sudanese director Hajooj Kuka's documentary Beats of the Antonov is smartly constructed in a way that eases us into the political message and hope for peace lyi...

[Review] Alumbrones

Vibrant yet straight-forward, Alumbrones documents the condition Cuban artists of multiple generations face as they practice their work not within a vacuum, but...

[Review] A Walk Among the Tombstones

Indicated by the proliferation of his action-oriented films in the last half-decade, simply uttering the name Liam Neeson spurs the specific notion of a certain...