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”
After a subpar return last week, Sherlock managed a decent second episode of its fourth season with “The Lying Detective.” Sherlock and John are grieving Mary’s death in vastly different ways, but for the audience, it’s pretty familiar. We’ve seen…
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…