Now that it’s October, it’s time for the annual slate of slasher horror films to make their way to theaters. This week’s new release…
Movie Review: The Secret Scripture
Buried far, far beneath the empty hubris and soapy melodrama of the thin plot in Jim Sheridan’s The Secret Scripture, there’s a fascinatin…
Movie Review: The Foreigner
I grew up on Jackie Chan’s American buddy movies. They may run the gamut of terrible to mediocre but Rush Hour, Shanghai Knights, The Tuxedo and The M…
Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold
Author and essayist Joan Didion was first introduced to writing through her mother, who presented her with a notebook and told her to write as a means…
Movie Review: Super Dark Times
Some movies have the ability to grab your attention with one form of advertisement. It could be a poster, trailer, plot synopsis, or even an interview…
Movie Review: Goodbye Christopher Robin
The intense emotion that Goodbye Christopher Robin evokes is hard to capture in words. There is sentimentality within the material, nostalgia for the …
VIFF Review: BPM (Beats Per Minute)
To read previous VIFF coverage, click here. In the electric first half of BPM (Beats Per Minute) the film charts the movement of a group of HIV/AIDS a…