Tag: drama
UNTIL DAWN Review: Far Better As a Standalone Horror Flick Than a Videogame Adaptation
Adapting videogames into other media, specifically film or television, has often proven to be a challenge many accept willingly, but few actually succeed in translating the gameplay mechanics, design, or conception into an equally immersive experience. It’s made all...
HAVOC Review: Gareth Edwards' Take on Heroic Bloodshed Reaps Bloody Rewards
Tom Hardy is Walker, a bent detective in a nondescript American city, fighting his way through the criminal underworld. Walker is turning his city inside out, searching for the son of a corrupt politician with whom he has had past...
Calgary Underground 2025 Review: EEPHUS, Where Baseball Contains Multitudes
Eephus, Carson Lund’s wonderful ode to small stakes baseball and gruff Americana, needs its odd title explained: The Eephus pitch is a throw that is so unnaturally slow that it confuses the batter. It makes him swing too early, or...
ANDOR: Season Two Review
So, are you a 'bad news first' kind of person or a 'good news first' kind of person?
SINNERS Review: Ryan Coogler Doesn't Miss, Part V
When pop-culture historians write the final chapter on the MCU (Marvel Cinematic Universe) in the not-so-distant future, filmmaker Ryan Coogler’s (Creed, Fruitvale Station) contribution, Black Panther, to said universe will stand head-and-shoulders above the rest. Black Panther both confirmed...
SHARP CORNER Trailer: Ben Foster Loses His Mind and His Family
Happy National Canadian Film Day! To celebrate, Evolution Pictures has dropped the trailer for Sharp Corner, a Nova Scotia set film that takes a deeply psychological page out of an early 1990s style of filmmaking, which was popular in Canada...
UGETSU 4K Review: Kenji Mizoguchi's Masterpiece
Our friends at the Criterion Collection continue to be champions of world cinema and film preservation. They recently released the new 4K/Blu-ray combo pack for Kenji Mizoguchi’s 1953 masterpiece, Ugetsu. I reviewed Ugetsu the last time around in 2017, back...
CHUNGKING EXPRESS 4K Review: Loneliness, Yearning, Loss, Romance, Joy, Bliss
Brigitte Lin, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Tony Leung Chiu Wai, and Faye Wong star in Wong Kar Wai's masterpiece.
Rotterdam 2025 Review: THREE DAYS OF FISH Proves You Can Never Go Home Again
Peter Hoogendoorn debuted very strongly almost ten years ago with Tussen 10 en 12 (Between 10 and 12), a rigidly structured movie set in a limited time-space. In it, a family one by one get told bad news by two...
JULIE KEEPS QUIET Review: Tennis Phenom, Insightful, Incisive Character Study
Among major professional sports played around the world, tennis stands out for its unique set of demands on its respective athletes. Unlike team sports or even doubles tennis, singles tennis places full responsibility for success or failure on the...
Friday One Sheet: OXANA
There is no point in subtlety in street protest. And the poster for French-Ukranian biopic of Oxana Chatchko aims to confront - in the movie poster context. Swearing, political slogans, and toplessness are all part of activist group FEMEN's modus operandi...
SXSW 2025 Review: DROP, A Terrifically Taut Techno-Thriller From Christopher Landon
Young widow Violet (Meghann Hahy) is finally ready to get back into the dating game, but while out with hunky photographer Henry (Brandon Sklenar), she is targeted with a series of increasingly frightening anonymous drops to her phone. When the...
ANDOR: Watch The First Three Episodes of Season One on YouTube Now
In a shrewd move to get more folks subscribed to Disney+ in time for the second season premiere on April 22nd, the first three episodes from season one of Andor are now streaming on their YouTube channel. They will give...
SXSW 2025 Review: GOVERNMENT CHEESE, Nothing Cheesy About It
David Oyelowo stars in the surreal comedy series, debuting globally on Apple TV+.
Berlinale 2025 Review: DREAMS (SEX LOVE), Shapeshifting Coming-of-Age Examines Desire Across Three Generations
Dag Johan Haugerud examines the fluid boundaries between love, desire, and memory in a film where language shapes both personal discovery and intergenerational reflection.
ON BECOMING A GUINEA FOWL Review: Silence Cannot Be Endured
It's hard to imagine what any of us would do, if we were driving along a quite road and came across a dead body, let alone the body of a member of our family. For Shula (Susan Chardy), on her...
ANDOR Season Two Teaser Trailer: Everyone is Ready to Fight!
Season two of the Star Wars series, Andor, starts streaming on Disney+ on April 22nd.
LEGENDS OF THE CONDOR HEROES: THE GALLANTS Review: Tsui Hark's Irresistible Action Eye Candy
Tsui Hark adapts Jin Yong's classic story, starring Xiao Zhan and Zhuang Dafei, and Leung Ka Fai Tony.
Rotterdam 2025 Review: MEMOIR OF A SNAIL Gets You, Pacing Be Damned
Back in 2009 we were treated to one of the best films ever made about autism, and it was, surprise surprise, an animated puppet feature. That was Mary and Max, directed by Adam Elliot, who had previously won an Academy...
Friday One Sheet: UNDER THE BURNING SUN
Warm and desolate at the same time, Yun Xie's tight 75 minute science fiction picture, Under The Burning Sun is a road trip across the desert; a journey to an uncertain freedom by a solitary pregnant woman. The key art may...
