Jason Bourne is No Hipster
As Jason Bourne premiered this weekend, some of the media outlet coverage (or at least at the click-bait social media level) was of the...
Stranger Things: The Heat of Summer Chiller Your Inner 80s Child Has Been Calling...
Stranger Things seems to have dropped out of the brains of The Duffer Brothers and onto our Netflix world this weekend. The digital platform continues...
The VVitch (Witch): Our Corn is Trash
This season's Indie Folk-Horror darling, The VVitch, the tale of one isolated family's banishment and descent into a 17th century rural farming nightmare, is...
Spike Island & The Stone Roses: For All of Us Outside the Gates
By Jacqueline Howell
What a time to be alive for Stone Roses /Manchester/ 80s "Indie" music fans. While good music has always struggled to find the sunlight through...
Film Diaries: A Film A Day – The Maid
Introducing our new original column -Film Diaries: A Film A Day - Part 1 The Maid (La Nana) 2009
Directed by Sebastian Silva
Starring Catalina Saavedra,...
What We Do in the Shadows: Fresh Blood in the Vampire Canon
What We Do in the Shadows (2014, New Zealand, Australia; 2015 U.S. Release)
Written, Directed and Produced by Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi.
Starring Jemaine Clement,...
The Year in Film: An Expanding Point of View
By Jacqueline Howell
2015 was a remarkable year in film for its expanding narrative POVs, despite the January grumpiness that begins to colour everything.
Critics and...
ROOM: The Vast Expanses of the Human Heart
A review/comparison of the film and the book, this article does discuss key plot points (as does the film's trailer).
In ROOM, the 2010 novel by...
Iranian Cinema and the West
It all started with The Cow, a 1969 classic about a man and his beloved animal. Credited by many as the start of the...
Twist Endings Or: What Happened to M. Night Shyamalan?
(Ed note: This article purposely discusses key plot twists and twist endings in Shyamalan's films as well as those in some other films (Chinatown, The Usual Suspects,...
