[MILD SPOILERS AHEAD] If the term “thirdworldsploitation” doesn’t exist yet, then I’d like to officially coin it. Thirdworldsploitation are films which feature well-to-do first world people traveling to destitute areas and falling victim to the horrors lurking beneath the mire…
Movie Review: ‘Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice’
No matter what ends up happening, Warner Bros. only have themselves to blame. They took a good, hard look at the response to Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel (2013)—the underperforming box office results, the critical revulsion, the furious and heart-broken…
Movie Review: ‘The Program’
The most intriguing part of Stephen Frears’ The Program, a biopic charting Armstrong’s rise and fall from grace based on Irish sports journalist David Walsh’s book Seven Deadly Sins, is that it is just as much a condemnation of cycling…
Video Game Review: ‘Pony Island’
Much like how French filmmakers in the late 1950s and early 1960s sought to radically redefine the cinema with self-reflexive works that examined the very nature of movies, a recent movement of creators have sought to move the video game…
Movie Review: ‘Look At Us Now, Mother!’
“This is a film about forgiveness,” Gayle Kirschenbaum’s new documentary Look at Us Now, Mother! announces at its start. But within 15 minutes we begin to feel that forgiveness is out of the question. How can we forgive Gayle’s mother Mildred…
Movie Review: ‘FRANKƐN5TƐ1N’
[Minor Spoilers Ahead] You know what Bernard Rose’s FRANKƐN5TƐ1N — the latest in a long line of modern adaptations of Mary Shelley’s immortal novel — could use? A thick coating of 1970s film grain. As I tried to gather my thoughts…
Interview with ‘Emelie’ director, Michael Thelin
Hot on the heels of the release of his new thriller Emelie, we sat down with director Michael Thelin to talk about his influences, working with child actors and the tribulations of low-budget filmmaking. After reading the interview, check out…
