Despite no one seeming to have been clamoring for it prior to its announcement, Finding Dory is swimming its way to theaters this Friday, June 17th (to what appears to be good reviews) and in preparation we took a look…
Movie Review: ‘The Boy and the Beast’
Mamoru Hosoda is one of the few anime directors making films that connect widely with an international audience; this is especially true since Studio Ghibli’s departure. How else can I describe The Boy and the Beast other than anime reclaiming…
Movie Review: ‘Sunset Song’
The title Sunset Song is ironic, considering that the film’s heroine is only just entering adulthood, wouldn’t sunrise be a more suitable prefix? This sweeping epic of a woman’s challenging and liberating journey through rural patriarchy bears a premise reminiscent of…
Movie Review: The Idol | A Palestinian Star is Born
I didn’t know Hany Abu-Assad’s The Idol was based on a true story until the end when the film began to cross-cut documentary footage that looked just a bit too realistic for it to be simple recreations. Sure enough, the…
Movie Review: The Other Side | Charting the American Nightmare
A life-sized cardboard cut-out of John Wayne looms over the interior of an organized militia compound. One of the founders promises new recruits that the Second American Revolution is inevitable. When the United Nations arrive, he warns there won’t even…
Movie Review: ‘Hard Sell’ makes the mistake on focusing on the least interesting character as the protagonist
To his credit, Sean Nalaboff’s Hard Sell has something very interesting to say, but probably not what he had in mind. It’s one of the most pro-sex worker films I’ve ever seen. Katrina Bowden plays Bo, an ex-stripper who gets pulled…
Movie Review: ‘April and the Extraordinary World’
One of the popular aesthetic movements in fiction is steampunk, a genre mash-up of Vernian science fiction and Victorian culture. In the field of speculative fiction, however, this is also one of the most lacklustre genres. Its conceptual premise always…