This week the Cronenberg family tree. This week, the branched out from the Cronenburg cinematic family tree is entitled Humane, which marks the directorial debut of Caitlin Cronenberg, whose leading actors are Jay Baruchel, Peter Gallagher, and Emily Hampshire. Anyone coming to this film for more of the body horror imagery in the works of […]
Satire can be defined in many ways, but it is not expansive enough in order to include “Krazy House”. This bloody, chaotic hand grenade of a film is undoubtedly dead wrong, with its first image being that of a cop shooting a nun to death and shockingly, it does not end there. Schneider and van
The portrayal of “Founder Days” as a ‘brash political slasher’ ring is an over-exaggeration of the movie, which is never more than a killing spree that follows down the post ‘scream’ killing spree of a disturbed town…Nancy’s parents are just manifested with the same over-the-top political correctness, with no sense of purpose. That distortion is
A number of names seem to leap out during the opening credits for “Destroy All Neighbors”, an over-the-top horror-comedy about irritating neighbors and a self proclaimed “deus ex machina”. The first name that appears is Rich Zim, who directed the best part of the film – the animation of the psychedelically epileptic intertitle sequence that
One of the films based on Matt Haig’s novel, “The Radleys”, is another vampire flick, which some may argue is more of a horror comedy, yet fails to properly balance out the aforementioned genres, and more often than not, lands somewhere in between. The British production stars Damian Lewis and Kelly Macdonald as Peter and
Y2K: In an instance that could almost be classified as a bizarre pop – cultural lifting of forces and physics, there are recurrent youth nostalgia films and keeps proffering a memorable phase of the past which had been a dream for all the youth who experienced it cuts across the ages – but having to
Being unable to escape unreasonable beauty standards and society’s obsession with being perpetually young is nothing new. However, Coralie Fargeat’s ‘The Substance’ comes at a time when’s Ozempic times are over. Ozempic weight loss injections are a shot that seems to make what seemed impossible, apart from going out under the blade, a common and
The Inheritance: In the present tale there are two or three things you probably thought I was about to say that today I’m going to have to disappoint you – as many times as I svdemn against such tendencies because I do not think that simplification is the an inadvertent applause or a good surprise
The objective to be one with the other is simultaneously the most romantic of ideas and the one that provokes utter terror. In his debut feature film “Else” screened at the Toronto Film Festival Thibault Emin directs us in the direction of the former but before long takes a nosedive into the implications of the
“Presence” is a tale about the dead that was directed by a versatile film maker Steven Soderbergh, and takes place entirely in this beautiful restored over 100 years old house located in suburbia, and even before the characters even have a chance to move in, it is occupied already. The gazing through the camera directly
