The opening few moments of Michael Haneke’s newest button-pusher Happy End leaves a few open-ended questions—the one I’m most eager to talk about involves a possible animal rights violation. Of course, animal torture isn’t the core question of Haneke’s film,…
Movie Review: Kaleidoscope
On its sleek, gloomy surface, it would appear that Kaleidoscope, from director Rupert Jones, would have all the makings of a commanding psychological thriller. Aside from its preoccupation with the work of Alfred Hitchcock and Roman Polanski, the film also…
VIFF Review: Happy End
To read previous VIFF coverage, click here. The opening few moments of Michael Haneke’s newest button-pusher Happy End leaves a few open-ended questions—the one I’m most eager to talk about involves a possible animal rights violation. Of course, animal torture…
TV Review: Sherlock 4×02 “The Lying Detective”
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Movie Review – ‘Tale of Tales’
All three of them end in blood: the story of the albino twins born to two different mothers by a necromancer’s spell; the story of the beautiful young princess accidentally bargained off by her foolish, distracted father as the bride…
TV Review: Wayward Pines 1×01 “Where Paradise Is Home″
[Based solely on the first episode] We’ve all been there. After a night of partying too hard, you wake up on the floor of some unknown place, having no recollection of how you got there and even what happened the…