Walking a fine line. So this is about a hitman named Léon (Jean Reno). He sticks to his code and leads a life of solitude. That’s all about to change when he takes in his 12-year-old neighbor named Mathilda (Natalie Portman). Her entire family got gunned down by a corrupt DEA agent (Gary Oldman). Mathilda […]
The Hitman’s Apprentice – Léon: The Professional (1994)
I am a fan of a post-apocalyptic/dystopian nightmare done well, and I wasn’t sure that’s what Glasshouse promised, but boy did it deliver. Glasshouse is an official selection of the Fantasia Film Festival 2021. The Premise: Living in a glasshouse in total isolation, a matriarch helps her family survive The Shred, a dementia-like virus that […]
Series Pick – Death Note – A stunning anime adaptation of a popular manga, Death Note is a fantastic series for new comers & fans of the genre. With a compelling story and rich characters, Death Note is easy to watch but hard to put down.
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Rating: 8.5 out of 10. Stephen King. Alice Cooper. Hillary Clinton. Richard Dreyfuss. Jean Reno. What do these people all have in common? They’re all 73 years old. And do you know who else is? That’s right: The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. The 1948 Warner Bros film follows two destitute Americans, the paranoid […]
The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre: Potently Prospecting Paranoia
Direct from Montreal’s premiere genre film festival, Fantasia, may I present: Agnes. Sphenisciphobia is the fear of nuns. That’s going to be relevant very shortly. Are you afraid of nuns? I don’t find them particularly scary myself, but there is something creepy about them, stripped of identity and personality, existing outside of society, of culture, of […]
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Rating: 7.5 out of 10. It’s day two in Over-The-Shoulder’s mini apocalypse, and Children of Men is the second film to be served on a silver platter for us to devour in a dismal cannibalistic lifestyle. But it’s an apocalypse – who can blame us? Anyway: Set in 2027 Britain, where eighteen years of […]
Children Of Men: Overcooked, Undercooked And Nothing In Between
The rumors are true. So this is about a young autistic girl named Music (Maddie Ziegler). When her mother suddenly dies, her only next of kin is her newly sober half-sister (Kate Hudson). This is not going to be easy. Now this movie’s reputation precedes it. Even though this has a 2021 release date, it […]
Dying To Survive (Wo bu shi yao shen) China (2018) Dir. Muye Wen Corporate greed is one of the biggest threats to society yet is allowed to operate legally and openly without recourse. It’s an anomaly that will never change because the law is usually on the side of the big corporations, allowing them to […]
Movie Review – Dying To Survive (Wo bu shi yao shen)
“If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?” When you watch The Sopranos, you can discern episodes from the early seasons to the later seasons by one factor. The factor for most television series would be the story. With The Sopranos it’s who […]
The Sopranos – A Tree Falls in the Forest
Ever since I’ve seen the first trailer for Jojo Rabbit, I knew that this will be a film like no other. I had faith, as Taika Waititi has proven himself several times now (from What We Do in the Shadows (2014), Thor: Ragnarok (2017) to somewhat underseen and underappreciated Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016) which if […]
Jojo Rabbit (2019) Review – F*ck Off, Hitler!
When this movie came out back in 2011, I remember movie fans talking about it a lot. Unfortunately, most of that talk was about how people felt betrayed by the trailer, as it made it seem like an action movie. What didn’t help the cause was the fact the director removed a scene of Liam […]
The Grey (2011) Review – Once More Into The Fray
“Pig” is not quite the movie I—and I think many others—expected it would be. Not that I necessarily had specific expectations for a film with such a bizarre premise: a forager (played by an exceedingly scruffy Nicolas Cage) travels from his isolated woodland existence to the city of Portland on a quest to recover his […]
The western and science fiction genres share several similar themes, particularly when the subject of the latter is exploration into the unknown, essentially transporting the frontier from the American West to the edges of outer space. It can be exciting and fascinating and introspective when done right. Unfortunately, writer and director Wyatt Rockefeller’s film “Settlers” […]
There’s a twisted part of me that considers Fargo (1996) to be a comedy. I don’t think the Coen Brothers would contest this. In fact, I think they were going for comedy all along. A coworker and friend of mine introduced me to the movie experience collection app, Letterboxd. If you are an avid movie […]
The best dullest film I have seen is 1981’s My Dinner with Andre, which literally involves a dinner conversation between two people (in 1996, Christopher Guest mocked the film by creating plastic action figures to act out the scenes in his Waiting for Guffman). Although My Dinner with Andre is just a conversation at a […]
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Rating: 8.5 out of 10. Sometimes, it’s simply just hard to put things into words. Which, I know, is silly, as I clack-clackity-clack away here at my computer. But sometimes, things are really too brilliant to try and justify – it feels disrespectful to do so to the Sistine Chapel ceiling, say. So forgive […]
The Conversation: The Dangers Of Playing God
A great and visually pleasing narrative about the socially embedded nature of the process of coming-into-being-as-subject.
Mio On the Shore (2019) review
⭐⭐⭐⭐ Rating: 3.5 out of 5. Who does not like watching love stories? Whether it is with a happy ending or not, it has something to warm our hearts. Remember Arthur Hiller’s “Love Story” (1970) with Ali MacGraw and Ryan O’Neal? Or “The Way We Were” (1973) with Barbra Streisand and Robert Redford or the […]
Film Review: “The Last Letter from Your Lover” (2021)
Old is a thriller from M. Night Shyamalan, the mind that brought us The Sixth Sense. Because it is Shyamalan, Old follows his formula – a a simple story + a twist = good film. The simple story in Old – a family on vacation ends up on the secluded beach with a group of […]
Truffle hunters will camp out on their porches at night, shotgun in hand, to fend off competing hunters trying to steal their valuable pigs and dogs. What? That was one of those facts that felt otherworldly yet immediately relatable to me, and that’s where PIG started. Michael Sarnoski – director, PIG Prior to watching PIG, […]
