The expanded universes of a lot of existing franchise lore can be confusing, and none as much so as our beloved Star Wars. While the movies have been hit and miss over the years, fans often come back to the…
In Fabric Movie Review: A flawed yet fun Giallo flick
Just when we thought that that 2019 was done with “strange” films, A24 does as A24 does and throws a curveball in the form of In Fabric. Fans of Dario Argento and Mario Bava will rejoice at Peter Strickland’s Italian…
Scare Me Silly: Kay Cannon, Please Direct a Rosemary’s Baby Remake
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 — homes our ancestors may not have even…
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 make meaning of…
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 forced them to play Hunger…
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 channels began broadcasting President…
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 Train Robbery and, even earlier, in the Lumière Brothers very…