There’s a lot of mystery and wonderment that permeates the night sky. Opportunities and potential seem to be woven into...
Chelsea Stardust has had a pretty killer year. She’s had not one, but two feature-length projects come to fruition. With...
Cults are all the rage. Escaping cults, joining cults, discussing cults, it’s been the year of the cult in horror film! Director Chad Crawford Kinkle is no stranger to the subgenre. His first feature Jug Face (2013) follows a backwoods community (read: cult) who must make human sacrifices to a...
Director. Writer. Actor. Artist. Journalist. When it comes to the horror genre, the craft of quality filmmaking is found in...
With the massive popularity of IT (2017) and IT Chapter Two (2019), it’s hard to remember that just a few years...
As a fervent fan of anything Alien (1979), I was initially sceptical about Director Alexandre O. Philippe’s documentary, Memory: The Origins of Alien. I was doubtful in the way a fine art collector would raise his eyebrows in suspicion, and tut under his breath as a deranged outsider claimed that he had an original...
Taika Waititi’s Jojo Rabbit celebrated it’s US Premiere at the 2019 Fantastic Film Festival, wrapping audiences in a warm and...
In the 1980s, a strange band came into the underground music scene. Calling themselves The Mentors, each member wore a...
Friendship is hard. This is a fact that director Rob Grant knows very well as seen in his latest film, Harpoon, which recently screened at Fantasia 2019. It is a film about underlying resentment, rivalries, jealousy, and toxic masculinity disguised under the very thin veil of just three friends going...
Punk rock was my first true love. We met in high school and the music changed my life forever. But...
When Brian De Palma’s Phantom of The Paradise was released to theatres in 1974 it was an immediate flop. The movie failed...
In 1974, Brian de Palma’s rock-opera Phantom of The Paradise was an immediate box office success (but only in Winnipeg, Canada). The film played nonstop for over four months and the soundtrack record was certified Gold (but only in Winnepeg, Canada). Today, Phantom of The Paradise remains a celebrated classic that continues...