Genius tends to just sort of…happen. With Lorne from director Morgan Neville we get yet another effortless portrait on the pop culture doc machine that this filmmaker has set up so well. It plays the hits while giving us a little bit of insight to the man while still maintaining a little bit of enigmatic […]
Read More“Yeah see I mean from the front it looks like I have hair”, says Kaleb, code name The Eagle. This may seem like an innocuous conversation about male baldness but nothing is innocuous in The Stag. The Stag is a European chalet, the setting for Million Dollar Secret, aka Netflix’s ‘knockoff’ version of The Traitors. […]
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Arriving in select theaters this weekend in a very limited run is the newest film from the Ghibli’s GKIDS distribution shingle, ChaO. Handcrafted over 7 years at Studio 4°C, ChaO is a rarity in this age of computer animation, a predominantly hand drawn, distinctively non photorealistic attempt at anime that gives the film a fantastical […]
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Disaster happens… While Thrash has all the ingredients to be balls to the wall, survivalist shark thriller, it ultimately plays a little tame compared to other entries in the genre. Placing us in the midst of a catastrophic hurricane that has laid waste to a small coastal town. If the torrential rain, Gail force winds, […]
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Is the classic romantic comedy trying to make a comeback that viewers are waiting for? The filmmakers responsible for You, Me & Tuscany provide a reasonably solid argument for the genre. Lately it seems like most of those movies head straight for Netflix or Prime. They’re quick content that often strays into cheesy ‘Hallmark’ territory. […]
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In 2004 Tadashi Agi created a manga series illustrated by Shu Okimoto called The Drops of God. It was serialized in Weekly Morning magazine and became a huge hit. It ran for 10 years, and was reprinted in several volumes. The series proved to be so popular that Apple TV turned the manga in a […]
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Ever since The Blair Witch Project came out in 1999 filmmakers have tried recreating the phenomenon of blurring the lines between reality and fiction. The film that came closest to it, and arguably surpassing it was the original Paranormal Activity, but by the time it came out in 2007 most people had caught on to […]
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The subway can take us out of our heads, in more ways than one… Exit 8 which is adapted from the video game of the same name is a subtle but decidedly unsettling little movie that encourages all of us to pay a little more attention to the little things during the rat race of […]
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One Prince of Demark is as good as another I suppose… While the world wasn’t exactly clamouring for yet another adaptation of one of the Bard’s most iconic works, there’s a reserved class and sleek sheen to this Hamlet that allows it some moments to shine. When Hamlet (Riz Ahmed) returns to London’s elite South […]
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Landing this week on Disney+ is the long awaited follow up to The Handmaid’s Tale, The Testaments. With Handmaid’s Tale driving force in front and behind the camera, Elizabeth Moss and television creator Bruce Miller, both in tow to lead this spinoff, though Moss’s June Osborne is no longer the focus of the show. This […]
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