Daniel Joseph Borgman’s Resin (Harpiks) celebrated its World Premiere at the 2019 Toronto Internation Film Festival where it was dropped...
In the face of prevalent everyday violence, desperate people search from something to blame. Grasping at straws, they blame video...
Cult films are so hot right now. Midsommar madness dominated our summer, Quentin Tarantino rewrote the history of the Manson family in Once Upon A Time… In Hollywood, and we all know true crime obsession with cults has gripped the cultural zeitgeist. So how can a film stick out from...
Neasa Hardiman’s Sea Fever is a bit of a fever dream, the kind of film that blends reality (life on...
On a stormy night recently, I revisited Clue (1985), an essential dark comedy and murder mystery based on the popular...
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...
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...
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...
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...