In 2017, audiences around the world were raving about a little film out of Japan called One Cut of the...
Reading through the descriptions of the films being screened at this year’s edition of the Fantasia Festival, I found that...
Relax, I’m From the Future is the debut feature for Luke Higginson, based on his short that premiered at TIFF back in 2013. In the short, a man is about to commit suicide, but is interrupted by someone claiming to be from the future. This idea of someone bumbling to change...
In 2018, while visiting the Fantasia Film Festival in Montreal for the world premiere of his movie LOUDER! Can’t Hear...
I’ve often wondered if my obsession for horror and true crime would ever come in handy in the real world....
There are few two-word combos that ensnare me faster than “Bigfoot Movie”. Like the big man himself, they come in all shapes and sizes and there’s just no good reason to turn down an opportunity to see a new filmmaker’s spin on the elusive cryptid. Aaron Mirtes’ The Bigfoot Trap follows...
“Sisu” is a Finnish word, impossible to translate. According to the opening scroll it refers to the white-knuckled courage of...
[#Sundance 2022 Review] Hide Your Kids, Hide Your Wife Before Watching Danish Thriller SPEAK NO EVIL
You may never make friends on vacation again after sitting through Christian Tafdrup’s Speak No Evil. What begins as a...
Alex Noyer’s Sound of Violence features some pretty elaborate deaths, tailor-made for the Midnight Madness crowd. Adapted from his short Conductor, the film follows a musician obsessively hunting for unique sounds to complete her symphony of destruction. Alexis, played by Jasmin Savoy Brown, experiences a rare sensory phenomenon known as Synesthesia that...
Stacey Gregg’s thriller Here Before follows a woman’s obsessive grief and how her desire to reconnect with her deceased daughter upends the...
As a fan of Travis Stevens’s previous film, Girl On The Third Floor, I had a pretty good sense that Jakob’s...
If you’re anything like me, cartoons made specifically to fuck you up mentally are the best kind. Everyone’s nostalgic for sorrow! I don’t know if that’s true, but damned if it didn’t make your spooky little ears perk up. Somewhere mid-between the existential crisis of The Last Unicorn, and the...