Talented actors who aren’t A-Listers have bills to pay. Though they take great artistic pride in their work, in order to make a living they must sometimes find a way to do their best in movies that aren’t as good as they are. On this list, a movie fan will certainly find both names and […]
Year: 2016
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20 Weird Movies from Around the World You Might Not Have Seen (Part 3)
Part III of the cinematic weirdness shifts focus in favor of the Japanese films which occupy one quarter of the list. However, there is still enough variety to accommodate different tastes, from avant-garde through animation and all the way to postmodernism. 1. Silence Has No Wings (Kazuo Kuroki, 1966) – Japan Weirdness of the […]
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10 Great Sci-fi Romantic Films That Are Worth Your Time
Science fiction is often described as the Trojan horse of narrative genres, mostly because you can put whatever you want inside its very malleable basic structure. We’ve seen adrenaline infused sci-fi films to spare, but also wordy, metaphysical ones. We’ve had speculative, seriously scientific sci-fi, but also completely absurd and not even apologetic about it […]
Paterson – VIFF 2016 Review
A charming glorification of the everyday and the quotidian grace and delicacy all around us flutters at the generous heart of Paterson, Jim Jarmusch’s latest and twelfth feature film. Centering on an excellent Adam Driver in the eponymous role as a working-class poet in the wee Jersey hamlet that shares his name, he relates to […]
The Handmaiden – VIFF 2016 Review
From South Korea’s provocateur and sensual stylist extraordinaire Park Chan-wook comes The Handmaiden, a stunning if somewhat strained fetish revenge tale set in 1930s Korea. Following 2013’s Hitchcockian horror-thriller Stoker, Park’s latest continues to plumb female sexuality and the female experience of sex with men absent, and The Handmaiden is all the more effective when […]
Weirdos – VIFF 2016 Review
Something of an illustrious symbol of Canadian cult cinema thanks to films like Highway 61 (1991), Hard Core Logo (1996) and Pontypool (2009), Bruce McDonald kinda sorta revisits his earlier catalogue with his latest film. 1989’s Roadkill was an idiosyncratic road movie with an indelible soundtrack and shot in black-and-white and the same can be […]