Quentin Tarantino’s latest is a dark fairy tale about a town that produces fictional happy endings by the hundreds while providing too few real ones.
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All Gator, No Filler [review]
Commentary, Film and TelevisionSam Raimi-produced Crawl is the alligator home invasion movie you didn’t know you needed.
THE DEAD DON’T DIE is a surreal, star-studded zombie comedy [review]
Commentary, Film and TelevisionThe Dead Don”t Die feels like if Grant Wood had painted one of those pictures where iconic celebrities are inexplicably gathered in the same small-town diner.
GODZILLA: KING OF THE MONSTERS is an old-school monster smackdown [reviews]
Commentary, Film and TelevisionState-of-the-art CGI techniques should have ushered in a golden age of movies in which giant monsters fight each other – and thus, the Legendary MonsterVerse is a welcome addition to the cinematic landscape.
MIDSOMMAR is a folk horror fever dream [review]
Commentary, Film and TelevisionAri Aster’s hotly-anticipated follow-up to Hereditary is a hallucinatory fever dream that fuses coming-of-age drama with vintage occult horror.
NIGHTMARE CINEMA worth price of admission [review]
Commentary, Film and TelevisionNightmare Cinema is a love letter to horror movies that may make you never want to set foot in a theatre again.
2019 Canada Day Playlist
Commentary, MusicLooking for some new tunes to blast on Canada Day?
Below are 15 (give or take) of my favourite Canadian tracks from 2019. This list runs the gamut from rap to rock to folk and everything in between, with selections from across our diverse country: you’ll find Avril Lavigne and Carly Rae Jepsen alongside Calgary hardcore punk, BC hip hop, Montreal art rock, northern electronica, East Coast anthems, West coast rock, and much more.
John Wick’s Excellent Adventure – PARABELLUM [review]
Commentary, Film and TelevisionThere’s a slightly surreal vibe to John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum.
HIGH LIFE is an enigmatic new space odyssey [review]
Commentary, Film and TelevisionClaire Denis’s High Life is a confounding sci-fi psychodrama starring Robert Pattinson as the last surviving inmate of an outer space prison.
MA is a bizarro stalker thriller [review]
Commentary, Film and TelevisionTate Taylor’s Ma is a knowingly absurd take on stalker movie clichés.
Seasonal Affected by Rebecca Kokitus [review]
Books, CommentaryRebecca Kokitus’s debut chapbook Seasonal Affected is an introspective, unnervingly intimate collection of poetry that reads like a southern gothic.
THE PERFECTION is a high-brow exploitation flick
Commentary, Film and TelevisionThe Perfection is a nasty little exploitation film in in black-tie attire.
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