Humans have gotten exceptionally good at evolution, at Darwin’s grand idea of natural selection, at not dying sooner than we should. We live in sturdier homes now than even our great-grandparents did …
VIFF 2018: “An Elephant Sitting Still”, “Mangoshake”, “Genesis” & “Wolf Hall”
One inevitably recurring theme in the many films you get see at festivals like VIFF is how the world isn’t going to give you the answers to life’s hard questions. It is often that the filmmakers must …
Wrecked Season 3 Finale Review: The Odds Were in Their Favor
The Shipley Brothers might have just written their best season of Wrecked to date. The third season left the plane crash survivors to fight for their lives as a psycho rich British man named Declan fo…
The Film Canon: Matinee (1993)
By 1960 close to 90% of American households owned a television set. This little bit of trivia plays a significant role in Joe Dante’s period comedy, set in Key West, Florida in October of 1962 when ch…
The Film Canon: The General (1926)
Long before Buster Keaton’s train engineer sat on his beloved train’s pistons as they rotated up and down,the locomotive had already graced moving images—most famously in 1903’s fictional The Great Tr…
Tully Movie Review: An Honest and Poignant Look at Motherhood
From our own experiences and from what has been told to us, mothers are often seen as magical beings. They give life and then care for it unconditionally to the point of exhaustion and are offered lit…
Blockers Movie Review: A film that 🐓 blocks itself
Throughout the 1980s the teen sex comedy was associated strictly with young men. Even today, movies focused on teenage girls losing their virginity – such as Maggie Carey’s The To-Do List …