Is it an extra cute joke that Bookworm is yet another movie where Elijah Wood goes trundling through the New Zealand countryside in search of…
It wouldn’t be a stretch to claim that Daaaaaalí!, Quentin Dupieux’s 77-minute portrait of the surrealist artist, is a biography of some kind. Nor would…
Writer-director David Moreau has set himself a tall task with his new film MadS, namely how to rejuvenate the moribund zombie sub-genre while also justifying…
The highlight of the 2024 Hot Docs Film Festival, and winner of the Roger’s Audience Award for Best Canadian Documentary and the Hot Docs audience…
In what is somehow 19-year-old filmmaker Alice Maio Mackay’s fifth feature, Carnage for Christmas, genres abound. Though a slasher makes up the bones of the…
When asked to name the scariest films ever made in 2013, Martin Scorsese chose Robert Wise’s 1963 film The Haunting as his top selection —…
Skye Riley is in trouble. One year after a near-fatal car crash, which exposed her mental health and substance abuse issues for all to see,…
Frat lives fall flat. That, at least to the outsider, is a reasonable conclusion to draw from the many unwelcome instances of its bearers disrupting…
The new documentary from Brett Story (The Hottest August) and Stephen T. Maing (Crime + Punishment) is an imperfect film, in that it often raises…
“What happened is true. Now the motion picture that’s just as real.” The theatrical release poster for Tobe Hooper’s 1974 horror milestone lured audiences with…
The title character of Sean Baker’s Anora notably does not go by that name for most of the film, and appears uncomfortable when male characters…
Deep in the Himalayan wilderness, surrounded by a swelling symphony of wing-beats, two figures wait patiently in the dark. Indian lepidopterist Mansi is on the…
Brad Dourif, known for his madman characters and many cinematic iniquities, is, it’s easy to forget, capable of staggering eclecticism. His career, unimpeachable, daring, perfectly…
We truly are in a golden age of action cinema. From every corner of the globe, with budgets high, low, and in-between, remarkably fit men…
A home invasion is a terrifying prospect, though it’s even more blood-curdling, especially from a third-party vantage, if the occupants are unaware of the intruder.…
The 1954 version of A Star is Born should never have turned out as well as it did. It was a remake of a remake…
On the Wikipedia page for the serial killer Rodney Alcala, there is a 145-word entry under the subheading “Dating Game appearance,” which recounts an unsettling…
The title of A24’s newest tragicomic offering, We Live in Time, recalls the gleeful cliché of romance films from the decade past: The Time Traveler’s…
It’s possible to make the claim that, from a certain point in his career, the works of the veteran (and outcast) Russian filmmaker Alexander Sokurov…
Rumours Since his out-of-nowhere debut feature Tales from the Gimli Hospital in 1988, Winnipeg-based director Guy Maddin has become synonymous with a very particular brand…