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...
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...
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...
Here’s the thing about parasites: when it comes to the movies, they just don’t die. In that sense, you might be hesitant to board Neasa Hardiman’s Sea Fever which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival Friday, September 6. It curious how the small-scale body horror flick can infect audiences...
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...
In the 1980s, a strange band came into the underground music scene. Calling themselves The Mentors, each member wore a black executioner hood and played music they deemed “rape rock” or “male chauvinist rock.” At the helm was the infamous El Duce, a force of personality who spewed lyrics that...
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,...
The Pierce brothers The Wretched recently held it’s Word Premiere at the 2019 Fantasia Film Festival, introducing the world to new Witchy rules and Witchy powers. “The vampire,” Brett Pierce shares with us, “has been developing over so long” with very specific strengths and weaknesses, but the traditional Witch is not a monster...