Wildly ludicrous, insanely fun and exploding with a color pallet painted in devious amounts of vibrancy, Marvel Studios Thor: Ragnarok may not break the structure that the mega-studio conglomerate has constructed so far, but it certainly takes a battering ram to it’s…
Movie Review: The Secret Scripture
Buried far, far beneath the empty hubris and soapy melodrama of the thin plot in Jim Sheridan’s The Secret Scripture, there’s a fascinating film about women’s rights in 1920’s Ireland or, better said, the lack there of. Instead, the film pointedly goes…
My Little Pony: The Movie Review
Though my looks might deceive me, I’m not someone who can claim to hold a great deal of knowledge on the expansive mythos and lore of My Little Pony. The original series was before my time, and admittedly, my college…
Movie Review: The Square
The Square is a film about a social experiment which is, in its own odd way, itself a social experiment. Said experiment asks if a panel of Cannes jurists can overlook a film’s glaring structural problems, general listlessness, uneven tone,…
‘Isle of Dogs’ Trailer Breeds Wes Anderson’s Creative Genius
The trailer for Wes Anderson’s stop-motion animated film Isle of Dogs released today and it’s fascinating. Set in a futuristic Japan, a 12-year-old boy attempts to find his guard dog, Spot, with the help of the exiled canines of Trash…
TIFF Movie Review: Lean On Pete
To read further TIFF 2017 coverage, go here. What great lengths we go to in order to combat the impending sense of loneliness. That lingering doubt along with the mechanisms of a coming of age story round out director Andrew Haigh’s…
TIFF Movie Review: Downsizing
Downsizing has a tonal problem in that the film we’re watching in the first act is drastically different than the one we watch in the second, which is drastically different than that of the third. At the very least, we can…