Horror mystery films are a difficult genre to develop, especially when it comes to ones based around actual events. It’s hard to juggle the building of the suspense while remaining true to the real-life incidents. Writer/Director Alejandro Amenábar has proven he can…
TIFF Report #3 (Anomalisa, The Assassin, Maggie’s Plan)
Because of malnutrition, dehydration, sleep deprivation, poor hygiene but most influentially seeing way, way too many movies, I have been diagnosed with festival fog. Feeling as though there is an inescapable haze over your memory and intellect, everything melds together…
Movie Review: ‘Sinister 2’
The first Sinister, directed by Scott Derrickson (The Exorcism of Emily Rose) and written by both Derrickson and C. Robert Cargill, won both praise and box office receipts to land itself as a surprise hit in 2012 that actually deserved…
Movie Review: ‘Ten Thousand Saints’
In this age of mumblecore supremacy and HBO hipsterdom, indie dramas about young men coming of age are a dime a dozen. It seems that all up-and-coming filmmakers have to do nowadays to get their projects funded and shown at…
Jon’s Movie Review: “Good Kill” Identifies the Real Enemies
War and combat have made long strides since the days when it would take you a couple of minutes to reload your musket for the next shot. Now we have biological weapons, atomic bombs and flying, pilotless fighter planes that can…
5 Movies Every College Graduate Should See Before Graduation Day
With graduation season fast approaching these 5 films are required viewing material for all impending graduates.
Before Sunrise: 20 Year Anniversary
We may all be currently talking about Boyhood and Richard Linklater’s immense success in bottling time, but it was Before Sunrise that truly captured the essence of stolen moments. When Before Sunrise was released twenty years ago, we didn’t know that there would be two…