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Porky’s (Review)

February 6, 2019February 5, 2020ReviewBob Clark, Dan Monahan, Porky's

During the Christmas period I reviewed American filmmaker Bob Clark’s 1974 classic psychological slasher Black Christmas, an accomplished cinematic achievement which proved to be an influential entry in the horror genre. Yet horror is not

Crash (Review)

January 30, 2019February 5, 2020ReviewCrash, David Cronenberg, Deborah Kara Unger, Holly Hunter, James Spader

Erotic thrillers, from my experience, usually try to cash in on excessive sex scenes to sell themselves, which tend to be at the expense of the thrills. This can make for a deeply shallow experience

Blaze: A New Film About a Growing Legend

January 25, 2019January 24, 2019ReviewBlaze, Blaze Foley, Ethan Hawke

Blaze, the new independent film by Ethan Hawke is making its way across the US and Canada. I was really looking forward to having the chance to review this movie. The movie premiered at the

Dave (Review)

January 24, 2019February 5, 2020ReviewDave, Frank Langella, Ivan Reitman, Kevin Kline

The Simpsons has made some eerily accurate predictions over the years. Smartwatches, video-calling, NSA spying, and Disney’s takeover of 21st Century Fox to name but a few, writers of the show have a proven knack

WAITING FOR CAROLINE Not Worth The Wait

January 22, 2019July 8, 2025ReviewAlexandra Stewart, Francois Tassé, Robert Howay, Sharon Acker, Waiting for Caroline, William Needles

Since long before our founding as a nation, Canada has long struggled to reconcile between two distinct halves: one English, one French. In the last half century especially, there’s been an on-again, off-again desire among

Spider (Review)

January 16, 2019February 5, 2020ReviewDavid Cronenberg, Ralph Fiennes, Spider

Time and again I find myself coming back to review a work by David Cronenberg, who by this stage I believe is one of the most purposefully enigmatic and multi-faceted directors still working today. What