10 Great Sci-fi Romantic Films That Are Worth Your Time

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Science fiction is often described as the Trojan horse of narrative genres, mostly because you can put whatever you want inside its very malleable basic structure. We’ve seen adrenaline infused sci-fi films to spare, but also wordy, metaphysical ones. We’ve had speculative, seriously scientific sci-fi, but also completely absurd and not even apologetic about it […]

The Handmaiden – VIFF 2016 Review

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From South Korea’s provocateur and sensual stylist extraordinaire Park Chan-wook comes The Handmaiden, a stunning if somewhat strained fetish revenge tale set in 1930s Korea. Following 2013’s Hitchcockian horror-thriller Stoker, Park’s latest continues to plumb female sexuality and the female experience of sex with men absent, and The Handmaiden is all the more effective when […]