Please, don’t take your kids to see this. Do not see this for a first date. I haven’t seen Oldboy, which is Handmaiden director Park Chan-wook’s first film. I heard about it. It made a good long splash,
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Capture Kill Release (Review)
Cameras are great. People use them to record TV shows, movies, music videos, homemade youtube skits, and their personal lives. The eccentric couple played by Jenn Fraser and Farhang Ghajar record their personal lives as
Continue ReadingFilm Review | Anne Darling (2015)
Film run-time: 15 minutes | Starring Norman Yeung, Allison Scagliotti, Janet Lo Written and Directed by Norman Yeung, Produced by Aaron Kopff, Alexander Brodzki and Agnieszka Gutkowska, Cinematography by Catherine Lutes “Anne Darling“, a 2015
Continue ReadingBarney’s Version (Review)
A story that seems to flow naturally and organically is a mark of good storytelling, managing to hide the inescapably tight three-act structure (opening, confrontation, and conclusion) to which screenwriters abide. I mention this because
Continue ReadingCloset Monster (Review)
Closet Monster picks its moments well. In the prelude to the main story, when protagonist Oscar Madly (Jack Fulton) is only about 10 years old, he witnesses older boys murder their rumoured-to-be-gay peer, his parents
Continue ReadingFilm Review | Working Class Heroes (2015)
Film run-time: 19 minutes | Starring Tom McBeath, Nicholas Lea, Bart Anderson Directed by Tom Scholte, Written by Shaun Aquiline, Produced by Ian Harmon “Working Class Heroes“, a 2015 short film by Tom Scholte, is
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