REVIEWS

For people suffering from obsessive-compulsive disorder, life can be hellish. The affliction leaves individuals crippled by anxiety and...

In 2022, Jesse Eisenberg’s directorial debut, ‘When You Finish Saving the World,’ was released. A comic drama about the contentious...

In 2021, Rachel Yoder’s debut novel ‘Nightbitch’ was released, to critical acclaim. Partly-autobiographical, the surreal story was...

For gorehounds, Damien Leone’s 2016 offering ‘Terrifier’ was a bloody good time. A violent splatter-fest that didn’t try to be anything...

In 1989, investigative journalists Bryan Burrough and John Helyar released ‘Barbarians At The Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco,’ considered...

Most people accept that the ‘Golden Age of Advertising’ was the 1960’s and 70’s, and that the ingenuity and brilliance of the advertising...

For some, the promise of Nicolas Cage playing a psychopathic, red-haired Bostonian is simply irresistible. The actor has delivered many...

Hana and Alice are best friends about to enter high school. One day, they see Masashi, a boy about their age, on board a train. Alice...

In 2019, Takeshi Kitano released ‘Kubi,’ a Samurai novel, retelling the events of the 1582 Honnō-ji incident, in which the powerful...

It is 1977, and Johnny Carson reigns supreme over the world of late night television. Looking to usurp his throne is Jack Delroy, host of...

It is 1988, and Czech bachelor František Louka is struggling to make ends meet. A talented cellist, his main source of employment is...

With 2022’s ‘X’ and ‘Pearl,’ Ti West created two extremely entertaining, wickedly clever horror comedies, honouring two specific types of...

Over the last twenty years, Yorgos Lanthimos has cultivated an approach to filmmaking all his own. Like David Lynch, he has developed a...

Nicolas Cage is an endlessly watchable actor. From ‘Moonstruck’ and ‘Adaptation’ to ‘Pig,’ he has given many startlingly powerful,...

Aerospace engineer Ed Okin can’t get any sleep. He’s in a rut, professionally and personally. After discovering his wife in flagrante...

It is the 1980’s, and Vladimir Mashkov is a foreman in Moscow. One day, while walking along Kalinin Prospekt- now New Arbat Avenue- he...

In 2008, Bruce McDonald released ‘Pontypool’, a tense, darkly funny adaptation of Tony Burgess’s novel ‘Pontypool Changes Everything.’ A...

It is the 1990’s and Tatsuo is a low-level Yakuza. A charismatic Casanova, he is tasked with supplying Domon- a conservative misogynist...

In 1985, Wim Wenders released ‘Tokya-Ga’, a love letter to the films of Yasujirô Ozu and the city of Tokyo. In that documentary, Wenders...

It is the 1920’s and in the picturesque seaside village of Littlehampton, trouble is brewing. Spinster Edith Swan begins receiving anonymous, obscene letters, which her father thinks are coming from their young Irish neighbour, Rose Gooding. Gooding denies sending the malicious mail, though few in the village believe her. It is up to female police officer Gladys Moss, alongside a couple of sympathetic ladies, to prove Gooding’s innocence and catch the real culprit before she