Category Archives: Film Reviews

So let’s get this right out of the way; I have never read Louisa May Alcott’s original novel nor have I seen any of the prior adaptations. I think perhaps if I had grown up in an English-speaking country it might have been a different story, but I don’t think Little Women is held inContinue reading “Little Women (2019): A Fresh Take on a Classic Story”

As much as I love film, both its creation and consumption, I have never been able to go to the theater as often as I’d like to. Some of it is a matter of transportation, but much of it has been a disinterest in the contemporary. I never like to stay ignorant of modern film,Continue reading “The Lighthouse (2019): It’s Bad Luck to Leave a Toast Unfinished, Lad.”

So, you might well be wondering what the fuck just dropped to Netflix and who the fuck let these fuckers anywhere near the controls. Some of you may be picturing elaborate, ‘White House Down’ style scenarios where a mad band of meth fuelled third-year film students highjacked Netflix HQ in an attempt to send theirContinue reading “What Did Jack Do? (2020): Zootopia Goes To Hell”

“Ernest Hemingway once wrote, ‘the world is a fine place and worth fighting for’. I agree with the second part”. Those are the final lines of dialogue uttered in David Fincher’s serial killer classic Se7en from 1995, spoken by Morgan Freeman’s character detective Somerset. Not only is the line incredibly profound, it speaks to theContinue reading “Se7en (1995): A Descent Into the Inferno of Humanity”

David Lynch needs no introduction, but perhaps his filmography does. Each of our staff picks a film by the master of surrealist filmmaking, whose filmography never ceases to amaze. Eraserhead (1977), introduced by Saoirse Selway ‘Eraserhead’ is a really important movie to me. It’s so stupidly formative to me as a critic and filmmaker thatContinue reading “Staff Picks: David Lynch’s World of Dreams”

I swear there is a plot. I’ve seen this movie before, I know there’s a plot because I followed it just fine then. This time though, I’m sitting here and the film is so unhinged, and strange, and surreal, that the experience is just washing over me. Fellini is often lumped in with the neo-realistsContinue reading “Fellini 100 Years – Satyricon (1969)”

For most of the 1950s, Federico Fellini experienced great success with personal yet stylized films that placed him as one of the major filmmakers in Italian neorealist cinema of post-WWII Europe. Films like I Vitelloni, La Strada and Nights of Cabiria were all extremely successful, both in Italy and abroad. But as Fellini approached aContinue reading “Fellini 100 Years – La Dolce Vita (1960)”

Content Warning: Brief mention of Self-Harm In many ways, life can be considered similar to skateboarding. It can get you where you need to go, you can succeed, you can fail, when it knocks you on your ass all you can do is get back up. But most importantly, the key to both is findingContinue reading “Mid90s (2018): The Art of Finding Your Feet”

I wish to specify that while I don’t think this film is perfect, I say that begrudgingly. It’s only because there’s one scene in a library that goes on a bit long for my taste. That being said though trying to judge or critique this film is somewhat of a fool’s errand, not that IContinue reading “L’Ange (1982): The Soul of Cinema is Alive and Well in This Movie”

After this movie, I’m going to have to read that Master/Slave dialectic again I suppose. Y’know, it’s surprising, the real Argento film filmmakers seem to return to these days for inspiration, isn’t ‘Suspiria’, (which has been stripped of all possible influence and left at the bottom of the ocean like a discarded whale carcass), itContinue reading “Us (2019): The Spirit of George A. Romero Lives On”