I’m a huge advocate of watching movies while under the influence. I believe occasionally taking psychedelic drugs before a viewing...
Special Actors, Shinichiro Ueda’s follow-up to the break-away hit One Cut of The Dead, is a feel-good comedy involving cults, ghosts,...
Do you ever get the feeling you’re too polite for your own good? That your inability to speak up when you become uncomfortable will land you in a dangerous situation? Such is the case in the dark comedy Homewrecker, starring comedian Precious Chong as Linda, who, in a desperate act...
Howdy, aperitif Fiends! Welcome back to Nightmare on Film Street’s COCKTAIL-A-TORIUM – the monthly column aimed at conjuring up classic...
The Oak Room (2020) is a love letter to the gothic thrillers of the past, which is fitting, since the...
Bruce McDonald is a Canadian treasure. He has directed some of my favorite films, such as zombie radio drama Pontypool and punk rock tour story Hard Core Logo. His latest movie is the surreal and jazzy Dreamland. It stars Stephen McHattie in two roles; in one, he’s a hitman having...
Earlier this month, many of us were shocked to see our uncles or our old high school friends on Facebook...
Gut the Punks! is a monthly dissection of genre film with some loose connection to punk rock music and culture....
It’s that time of the month, readers. Dust off your battlevest, knock back that 40 oz, and settle in for another edition of Gut The Punks! A monthly column devoted to genre cinema with a loose association to punk rock, heavy metal or any other counterculture, set to a loud,...
What’s up, weirdos? Welcome to a special happy horror-days installment of Awfully Good, where we celebrate movies that aren’t conventionally...
This past July, I wrote a piece on punk rockers in genre films, and how a new generation of filmmakers...
Neasa Hardiman’s Sea Fever is a bit of a fever dream, the kind of film that blends reality (life on an Irish fishing trawler) with pure fantasy (sea creatures and some quite literally eye-opening effects!) and asks you to believe in both. The film follows a marine biology student (Hermione...