The horror genre is one of the most widely varied film types in the medium. The slasher films are perhaps the most popular of the horror sub-genres while tales of hauntings are the most classic format. Due to the fact that the basic requirement of horror is to instill fear, it can be applied to […]
Year: 2016
The Girl With All The Gifts – VIFF 2016 Review
Scottish director Colm McCarthy (perhaps best known for his work on Sherlock and Peaky Blinders) offers up a tense, intelligent, and chillingly provocative British horror film in The Girl With All The Gifts. Ably assisted by screenwriter Mike Carey, adapting his own bestseller from 2014, their film takes the elaborately overdone zombie genre and resuscitates […]
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15 Great Male Directors Who Are Good at Making Films About Women
There has been a great deal of discussion about the voyeuristic nature of cinema, especially since the structural and critical studies of the 1970s and the emergence of feminist theory. But above the contemporary concerns about the male gaze in cinema and how women are portrayed and observed, we can look back at past centuries […]
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10 Amazing French Films You Might Not Have Seen
The opulence of French cinema is a fact – after all, France is considered the birthplace of the medium. From the pioneering works of the Lumière brothers and Georges Méliès, through the avant-garde experiments, as well as the radical “antics” of La Nouvelle Vague, and all the way to the transgressiveness of New French Extremism, […]
The Red Turtle – VIFF 2016 Review
On the strength of his astonishing award-winning animated short film from 2000, Father and Daughter, Dutch animator Michaël Dudok de Wit came to the attention of Japanese animation legend Hayao Miyazaki who not only wanted to meet de Wit, but wanted to get in cahoots with him for a Studio Ghibli project. That project would […]
Endless Poetry – VIFF 2016 Review
Roger Ebert once said that “a good movie is never long enough and a bad movie is never short enough,” and if those words hold as much resonance as I feel they do, Alejandro Jodorowsky’s Endless Poetry is a 128 minute endurance test. Would bamboo chutes underneath one’s fingernails be as agonizing? Well, maybe, but […]