This past July, I wrote a piece on punk rockers in genre films, and how a new generation of filmmakers...
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Films today never truly dip their toes in piety. It is often used in horror as a cheap-shot quick-grab “good...
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Daniel Joseph Borgman’s Resin (Harpiks) celebrated its World Premiere at the 2019 Toronto Internation Film Festival where it was dropped on everyone’s sunny day like a thick, heavy vat of hot tar. The film tells the story of a young girl, hidden away from the world by well-meaning but ill-prepared...
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In the face of prevalent everyday violence, desperate people search from something to blame. Grasping at straws, they blame video...
We all have a monster inside us. Whether it be something we’re not proud of, an insecurity, a secret, or...
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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...
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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...
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What do a stripper, an Elvis impersonator, a truck driver, and a teen runaway all have in common? They’re all...
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The final episode of a series is a tricky one to successfully produce. It can make or break an ensemble as it usually leaves viewers satisfied or disappointed, especially when it comes to an anthology-type platform. Even a consistently successful series can be severely tainted by wrapping up its run...
