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For some, a black cat is a bad omen. But in the world of Johannes Nyholm’s (Jätten) newest film, Koko-di...
81%
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It’s fair to say that a few well-structured words can hold an incredible amount of imagery and power. But how...
86.25%
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...
78.75%
Jagoda Szelc’s second feature film, Monument, is a puzzling one. It is both a surreal nightmare akin to the works...
77.5%
The opening of Robert Olsen and Dan Berk’s (The Stakelander) new film, Villains, sets the tone for the events to...
82.5%
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...
88.75%
Time travel movies are either extremely self-serious or expectedly goofy. Sci-fi films such as Looper and Predestination are dark action...
62%
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Shark movies. It’s kind of hard to mess them up. You take your camera-happy (or shy, if you’re Steven Spielberg) sharks,...
76.25%
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,...
78.75%
Have you ever wanted a movie that is a hybrid of Ghostbusters, The Matrix, and Hellraiser? Have you ever even...
I had a bit of a Munro Chambers marathon last week; I watched Harpoon one night, Riot Girls for lunch...
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...
