What would you do to ensure your family’s financial security? Steal? Lie? Murder? In Bong Joon-Ho’s Parasite, he asks this...
Here’s the thing about parasites: when it comes to the movies, they just don’t die. In that sense, you might...
For some, a black cat is a bad omen. But in the world of Johannes Nyholm’s (Jätten) newest film, Koko-di Koko-da, a white cat is the bearer of misfortune. It is an omen of what hell is to come in the form of two heinous sideshow performers, led by a...
It’s fair to say that a few well-structured words can hold an incredible amount of imagery and power. But how...
Jagoda Szelc’s second feature film, Monument, is a puzzling one. It is both a surreal nightmare akin to the works...
The opening of Robert Olsen and Dan Berk’s (The Stakelander) new film, Villains, sets the tone for the events to come. Amateur thieves Mickey (Bill Skarsgard, IT) and Jules (Maika Monroe, It Follows) rob a gas station wearing pigeon and unicorn masks, respectively. As they try to rob the register,...
In the 1980s, a strange band came into the underground music scene. Calling themselves The Mentors, each member wore a...
Time travel movies are either extremely self-serious or expectedly goofy. Sci-fi films such as Looper and Predestination are dark action...
I wasn’t aware of the prominence of Christianity in South Korea, but according to a quick Google search, close to a third of the population identify as Christians. The question came up when watching Kim Joo-hwan’s The Divine Fury, a religious action thriller about a man who loses his faith,...
I had a bit of a Munro Chambers marathon last week; I watched Harpoon one night, Riot Girls for lunch...
What would you do if you were trapped on a boat with two of your friends, and no food or...
Harold Holscher’s debut feature The Soul Collector (Originally titled 8) is a folk tale from a land whose mythology is as dark as the day is long. A rich character study steeped in mythology from an untapped well, the Southern African fable celebrated its world premiere at the 2019 Fantasia...