To catch other reviews to Black Mirror episodes, click here. With its premier episode airing so close to Halloween, a day where our fears of the unknown become their most pronounced, Black Mirror steadily reminds us that the things that should scare us…
VIFF Review: After the Storm
To read previous VIFF coverage, click here. Many use the words “deceptively simple” to describe a film which makes what it’s trying to do look easy. However, I don’t think the words apply better to any director than Hirokazu Kore-eda and…
VIFF Review: Elle
To read previous VIFF coverage, click here. Paul Verhoeven’s ventures into irreverence and topical discussion have always been assigned to lavish psychosexual entertainment, mostly overlooked however are his films’ dramatic undertones, which are always sincere, biting and deeply self-aware. Elle…
VIFF 2016 #3: Life After Life, The Student, Being 17
To read previous VIFF coverage, click here. The Student I like to think of The Student as a total inversion of that pro-Christian blunder God’s Not Dead. Instead of the squeaky wheel Christian as the underdog trying to fight the…
VIFF Review: A Quiet Passion
To read previous VIFF coverage, click here. Terence Davies’ newest film A Quiet Passion is his most talky film, which probably makes it the least characteristic of the acclaimed English director. But considering that every film by the director by this…
VIFF Review: Paterson
To read previous VIFF coverage, click here. Paterson is an odd Jarmuschian stream of consciousness with an unmistakable feel for the ordinary. A few days in the life of bus driver Paterson (played timidly and earnestly by Adam Driver), in the city of…
VIFF 2016 #2: The Other Half, The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki, Searchers
To read previous VIFF coverage, click here. The Other Half The Other Half is an impressionistic piece of debut filmmaking, a practice in turning the unconventional dramatic methods of great directors into a doctrine for newer ones. Despite Justin Klein…
