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Win it All (Review)

April 12, 2017October 13, 2017ReviewJake Johnson, Win It All

Win It All is a one man show. Jake Johnson has been working towards this. Beloved on New Girl, he has since launched himself, with the help of indie filmmaker Joe Swanberg, into a respectable

Cube (Review)

April 5, 2017April 2, 2017ReviewCube, Vincenzo Natali

My issue with a lot of horror and thriller films today, is that they tend to be overly predictable, caving easily to genre conventions instead of taking bold risks. As I watched the 1997 film

The Discovery (Review)

April 4, 2017April 4, 2017ReviewCharlie McDowell, The Discovery

The Discovery would be a wasted effort without its last 20 minutes and its unique casting. Director and co-writer Charlie McDowell pulls pieces (down to casting the underrated Jesse Plemons and giving his female lead

Goin’ Down the Road (Review)

March 29, 2017March 26, 2017ReviewDonald Shebib, Doug McGrath, Goin' Down the Road, Paul Bradley

Whenever I hear talk of quintessential Canadian cinema, or read any one of the many top-ten lists I have encountered, a reference to Donald Shebib’s 1970 film Goin’ Down the Road is almost inescapable. By

Exotica (Review)

March 22, 2017March 22, 2017ReviewAtom Egoyan, Exotica

Atom Egoyan’s 1994 film Exotica opens with a slow, panning shot of a jungle-themed mural, mixed with instances of artificial plants in its foreground, which gave me an immediate sense of déjà vu. The camerawork

Film Review | Asteroid (2015)

March 16, 2017July 19, 2017ReviewAsteroid, Kristina Mileska

Film run-time: 10 minutes | Starring Cadence Schuster, Peter Higginson, Corrinne King Written and Directed by Kristina Mileska, Cinematography by Andy Kloske, Sound by Emmerek Vanleur “Asteroid“, a 2015 short film by Kristina Mileska, is

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