Harpo & Lenny Guit’s Mother Schmuckers (Fils de Plouc) is a filthy, revolting gonzo-comedy that would put a smile on John...
A glimpse into another world not too unlike our own isn’t exactly a novel format for the fantasy genre, but...
Jane Schoenbrun’s We’re All Going To The World’s Fair is exactly the kind of horror movie you hope for when you’re stuck at home with nothing but an internet connection to entertain you. As everything everywhere is right now, the 2021 Sundance film festival has pivoted to a (mostly) virtual experience this...
You know when cult king Nic Cage says a movie “might be the wildest movie I’ve ever made”, you’re in...
You’re going to want to take a big deep breath before sitting down to watch James Ashcroft’s Coming Home In...
It’s safe to say that you’ve never seen a werewolf movie like The Cursed (Originally titled Eight For Silver). Sure, this werewolf bares its fangs, eats children, and has a complicated relationship with silver just like your favorites but it’s all the gnarly details in between that make this story...
If you’re currently questioning your day-to-day reality, Rodney Ascher’s brain-scrambling documentary A Glitch In The Matrix will either be your...
Conceived, created, and cobbled together all under Covid-19 lockdown measures in Britain, Ben Wheatley’s In The Earth was unleashed on the...
Frida Kempff’s psychological thriller Knocking (Knackningar) is an eerie and unsettling tale of mental illness that takes the viewer deep inside the mind of an unstable narrator. The film bends and twists reality in small believable ways until you realize you’ve been under the same spell as your lead the whole time....
While author Shirley Jackson would like us to believe “houses aren’t haunted – people are,” filmmaker Adam Stovall thinks the...
In a time when most of us can relate to themes of loneliness and isolation perhaps more than ever, the...
[Sundance 2021 Review] Analog Era Love Letter CENSOR Blurs The Lines Between Video Nasty and Reality
The 2021 Sundance Film Festival’s Midnight opener Censor takes viewers beyond the cold, grey world of Margaret Thatcher’s 1980s Britain into the vibrant, violent world of the Video Nasties. As a North American, “Video Nasties” were something I didn’t learn about until well after the British censorship craze has cooled. Heck,...