Neasa Hardiman’s Sea Fever is a bit of a fever dream, the kind of film that blends reality (life on...
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On a stormy night recently, I revisited Clue (1985), an essential dark comedy and murder mystery based on the popular...
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What would you do to ensure your family’s financial security? Steal? Lie? Murder? In Bong Joon-Ho’s Parasite, he asks this very question as a destitute Korean family tries to climb their way to some semblance of economic success. But to achieve that success, they must lie and cheat their way...
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Here’s the thing about parasites: when it comes to the movies, they just don’t die. In that sense, you might...
It’s fair to say that a few well-structured words can hold an incredible amount of imagery and power. But how...
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Out of all the horror films I’ve seen this year, my favorite opening shot came from Ready or Not. It’s the cover art to an old-timey (fictional) board game called “La Bail’s Gamble.” Over its retro Milton-Bradley scenery is a grinning vaudeville fiend, cackling with some horrible expression of certain...
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In the 1980s, a strange band came into the underground music scene. Calling themselves The Mentors, each member wore a...
I had a bit of a Munro Chambers marathon last week; I watched Harpoon one night, Riot Girls for lunch...
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...
The Pierce brothers The Wretched recently held it’s Word Premiere at the 2019 Fantasia Film Festival, introducing the world to new Witchy...
Matthew Pope’s southern-gothic thriller Blood on Her Name has been knocking the wind out of everyone at the 2019 Fantasia Film...
When Brian De Palma’s Phantom of The Paradise was released to theatres in 1974 it was an immediate flop. The movie failed commercially and critically the entire world over, except, for some strange reason, in Winnipeg, Canada. In that single area Phantom of The Paradise was such a success that the film...
