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Guest Review: A Field in England
Dir. Ben Wheatley, 2013, 90 min. (Image: Movie-list.com) Ben Wheatley’s latest was one of my most anticipated films at VIFF: I thoroughly enjoyed Kill List (2011), his delightfully off-kilter hitman...
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Big Bad Wolves (Mi mefahed mezeev hara)
Dir. Aharon Keshales and Navot Papushado, 2013, 110 min. (Image: Geektyrant.com) It begins with big, loud, beautiful music. Classical. Three children play in what looks like an abandoned,...
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Borgman
Dir. Alex van Warmerdam, 2013, 113 min. (Image: Wikimedia.org) “Bore-gman” is how I described it in a text to a friend when she asked how I liked Alex van Warmerdam’s latest feature film, Borgman. Yep,...
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Guest Review: Young & Beautiful and Blue is the Warmest Colour
I decided to do a joint review of François Ozon’s Young & Beautiful and Abdellatif Kechiche’s Blue is the Warmest Colour because they are remarkably similar films, and I have more or less the same...
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Embrace of the Vampire on Blu-ray
Dir. Carl Bessai, 2013, 91 min. Unrated (Image: Sneakpeek.ca) Charlotte Hawthorn (Sharon Hinnendael) has a secret: one that’s so secret, even she doesn’t know about it—that is, until she leaves her...
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Ice Soldiers
Dir. Sturla Gunnarsson, 2013, 95 min. Rated: R (Image: Letterboxd.com) Like any spiritually devoid screen-worshipping image junkie I have seen my fair share of “films.” As you know, the celluloid scale...
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Spinning Plates
Dir. Joseph Levy, 2013, 93 min. (Image: Insidemovies.ew.com) The ever-growing popularity of “reality” television suggests that we are becoming an increasingly voyeuristic culture—or rather, the...
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Only Lovers Left Alive
Dir. Jim Jarmusch, 2013, 123 min. Rated: R (Image: Collider.com) It is difficult to find anything to say about Only Lovers Left Alive beyond confirming that what everyone else has said is true: the...
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Fantasy Filmfest Nights 2014: Snowpiercer
Dir. Bong Joon-ho, 2013, 126 min. Rated: R (Image: Firstshowing.net) Director Bong Joon-ho’s Snowpiercer is kind of like if the story of Noah’s ark took place on a large train instead of an ark, and...
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Fantasy Filmfest Nights 2014: The Green Inferno
Dir. Eli Roth, 2013, 103 min., Rated: R Image: Flickeringmyth.com When a group of college-aged activists crash their plane in the Amazon they are quickly discovered by the tribe they were trying to...
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