Meet Kazuto (Kazuto Osawa), an aspiring actor. There’s just one problem: confrontation makes him weak. So weak, in fact, he tends to faint and recovers only to severe embarrassment. This sets him apart from his childhood hero and career inspiration, Rescueman, a ridiculous caricature of superhero fame who appears throughout this cartoonish comedy. After Kazuto […]
Month: October 2020
Siberia – VIFF 2020 Review
Proving once again beyond any shadow of a doubt that he’s one of modern cinema’s most unpredictable, prolific and provocative of filmmakers, and perhaps one who’s also touched with an otherworldly grace, Abel Ferrara (Ms .45, Bad Lieutenant, Tommas) busies himself exorcising some strange cinematic demons while unleashing his own inner force in his new […]
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10 Great 1990s Movies You’ve Probably Never Seen
The 1990s was a strange time of change for cinema. Independent films rose to become a major player amongst the American box office with wider releases and better promotion from studios. The Horror genre went through another change as the Kevin Williamson scripted/Wes Craven directed Scream ushered in the “in-joke” style of scare films. Romantic […]
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The 10 Best Road Trip Thriller Movies
There is a natural tension to the open road, with its isolation broken only by a complete stranger piloting their own ton or two of steel, glass and rubber where only suckers heed the speed limits. Most of the world might be carved up by roads, but that doesn’t mean that civilization grew up alongside […]
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The 15 Best Cult Slasher Movies
As one of the more controversial categories of the horror genre, the idea of the slasher movie made its way into existence many years ago and has made its presence known ever since. While Freddy, Jason, and Michael have become famous figures not only in the slasher genre but in pop culture, it is important […]
Father – VIFF 2020 Review
Father is director Srdan Golubović’s Serbian drama which memorably opens with a scene that’s very unsettling to witness. A mother with her two children in tow, arrives at the former workplace of her husband Nikola (Goran Bogdan). Unable even to afford food to feed them, she comes demanding to be paid the long overdue money […]