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Scanners (Review)

January 11, 2017July 31, 2019ReviewDavid Cronenberg, Michael Ironside, Scanners, Stephen Lack

My viewing of David Cronenberg’s catalogue of films has been anything but sequential. In fact, I have almost unconsciously been watching a number of his films in backwards order, which has inadvertently offered an interesting

The Handmaiden (Review)

January 10, 2017December 26, 2016ReviewHandmaiden, Park Chan-wook

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,

Capture Kill Release (Review)

January 6, 2017February 3, 2017ReviewCapture Kill Release, Nick McAnulty

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

Film Review | Anne Darling (2015)

January 5, 2017July 19, 2017ReviewAnne Darling, Norman Yeung

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

Barney’s Version (Review)

January 4, 2017December 31, 2016ReviewBarney's Version, Richard J. Lewis

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

Closet Monster (Review)

January 3, 2017December 26, 2016ReviewCloset Monster, Jack Fulton

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