Everyone knows how common a name is. Maybe not a full name in some cases, but a first name in particular is pretty common. It’s not common for an occurrence of people with the same
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Rabid – Review
David Cronenberg’s unique brand of horror resonates so strongly with audiences because it is often tied to the body, finding ways to make viewers squirm at the sight of the physical, but doing so by
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National Canadian Film Day: Revisiting LAST NIGHT
The anxiety around Y2K seems almost quaint 20 years on. It turned out to be just one of many end of the world predictions that failed to materialize including the more recent Mayan-favourite endgame of
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First Stripes Gives a Good Glance of Training Days
Whenever someone comes across something military-themed, they think of marching and routines, and salutes, and everything battle-related while some big guy is yelling your ear off. At least that’s what the fictional movies show. But
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The Death & Life of John F. Donovan (Review)
Given the prodigious nature of Xavier Dolan’s filmmaking career and the frequency at which he churns out productions that he has, at the very least, written, produced and directed, I have made a point of
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KILLER QUEEN a Psycho Peek at Cinema’s Underground
Freddy Mercury may have been lampooning the upper crust in the 1974 hit Killer Queen, but Ramin Fahrenheit’s psycho-drama of the same name keeps things much closer to the poverty line. It’s a curiosity I
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