Fantasia Festival is North America’s premiere (and largest) genre film festival. It is also my favorite film festival and so I could not wait to share the highlights of this years line up. Below is just some of the films we will be reviewing on our upcoming podcasts.
THE CHILDREN – North [...]
Fantasia Festival is North America’s premiere (and largest) genre film festival. It is also my favorite film festival and so I could not wait to share the highlights of this years line up. Below is just some of the films we will be reviewing on our upcoming podcasts.
BEST WORST MOVIE – Montreal premiere, hosted by [...]
Fantasia Festival is North America’s premiere (and largest) genre film festival. It is also my favorite film festival and so I could not wait to share the highlights of this years line up. Here is a sneak peek at what we will be reviewing in the upcoming week of our podcast.
CRUSH AND BLUSH – Canadian [...]
Yes, he was the punchline of about a quarter-million Tonight Show jokes. But Michael Jackson’s stop-on-a-dime dance moves and sensual soprano have influenced generations of musicians, dancers and entertainers, and the man was so much more than what the tabloids made him out to be. One of entertainment’s greatest icons, he was incredibly gifted, and [...]
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The gangster film is an American institution, like churches that look like Dennys and creationism museums. And every era has its own sub-genre, from the film noir of the forties to the Mafia films of the seventies, to straight to DVD releases starring guys from Death Row Records [...]
This past weekend saw the inimitable Michael Bay releasing (unleashing?) his latest upon filmgoers, his sequel to 2007’s summer smash / Hasbro tie-in, “Tranformers,” entited “Revenge of the Fallen.” Al, Ali, Rick and Simon are all present to take on this colossal enterprise. So if you’ve ever wondered what Mr. Bay has in common with [...]
Taken out of context, it seems like Bringing Up Baby should have been a blockbuster in its day. It had all of the necessary elements: big name stars playing unique characters, a wacky plot, hilarious dialogue and a large handful of plot twists – but when the movie premiered in 1938, it bombed. Director Howard [...]
Cult Cinema: Volume 13:
Dear Internet,
I’m sorry that we don’t like the same movies. I’ve let you down. After all that you’ve given me, from the questionably legal pornography, to the gory photos of car crash victims and dead celebrities, to the endless hours spent trolling creationist message boards and acupuncture websites, I’ve done nothing but [...]
Yes, he was the punchline of approximately a quarter-million Tonight Show jokes. But Michael Jackson’s stop-on-a-dime dance moves and sensual soprano have influenced generations of musicians, dancers and entertainers, and the man was so much more than what the tabloids made him out to be. One of entertainment’s greatest icons, he was incredibly gifted, and [...]
Racist Caricatures in Transformers 2 under scrutiny:
A controversy has arisen since the blockbuster release “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.” It surrounds the portrayal of two of the robots, which some of deemed a racist caricature. The robots are named “…Skids and Mudflap…” and “…both characters speak with voices that sound like urban black stereotypes, have [...]
Myles of Footage
I had a dream once where I was being chased by a monster down a long, narrow hallway. It felt like I was stuck in quicksand because I couldn’t quite get my legs moving fast enough to escape the monster’s claws. Right before watching Polanski’s Repulsion I shared that dream with a friend [...]
Undertones: Volume 2
In the 1940s the consumption of alcohol was predominantly glamorised on the silver screen. Starlets sipped sensuously on their g & t’s whilst detectives downed shots of whiskey before departing the office on a hot lead. If this was an accurate portrayal of the time, one has to ask how the hell anyone [...]
The Sundance sensation In the Loop will be making its way to select theaters and VOD on July 24th courtesy of IFC Films. Armando Iannucci’s film is an adaptation of the short lived 2005 British TV comedy series In the Thick of It with much of the show’s cast reprising their roles in the film. [...]
Wouldn’t you think the studio executives would hace the common sense not showcase the words “M. Night Shyamalan” over the top of a movie title at this point in time. Oh well. Have never had interest in the The Last Airbender TV show; always seemed like an Americanized anime for kids under 12. But it [...]
Richard Kelly scales way, way back after the disastrous reception to his infamous Southland Tales for his third feature, the Box, a comparatively simple Twilight Zone-esque parable about a couple (Cameron Diaz and James Marsden) who receive the dubious gift of a box with supernatural properties – when opened, it instantly doles out piles of [...]
