“Zombie has always dealt in nightmare matter, but in Halloween II the nightmare feels more personally upsetting, more visceral, more of-the-moment and more zeitgeist-informed than anything else he has produced.”
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“The Locust sees metafictional layer upon metafictional layer folded over a single, confined setting, where family members and crewmembers alike converge to battle for creative control over a filmmaker's personal passion project (and maybe life...?).”
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“Francesco Sossai’s Other Cannibals is a work of horror-realism so mired in its characters’ misguided meandering that it becomes something else entirely, a stark black almost-comedy of errors about two outcasts trying desperately to sink their teeth into life itself.”
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“The big goofy grin you’ll be wearing on your face throughout the runtime, that is pure Spielberg. Scene after scene of this film hits every big emotional beat that you want from a heart-on-its-sleeve, Hollywood production.”
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In light of the ForReel team having recently been in Toronto, and in light of Egoyan’s Toronto-set sixth feature being released by the Criterion Collection, I re-investigate the film’s particular brand of erotica.
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“Never has the Okanagan looked better—as rich and as lush—as in the frames of Jarvis’ film, Jeremy Cox’s gorgeous 16mm photography giving the area a tactility and a glow that digital simply couldn’t have offered.”
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“[T]he performances encompassed in Aronofsky’s film are deeply felt, vulnerable, and searing; the emotions they lay to waste numerous; the awe they command unquestionable.”
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“Radcliffe commits with panache a whole 108-minutes worth of manic energy and physicality to screen, a performance liable to leave you feeling the effects of a sugar rush.”
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“Bubba Ho-tep is the story of two men at the end of their trails who find they can be of use again; who find one last fight to fight.”
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“What truly shines is the film's sound design and score, which create a cavernous aural environ that hits you on a guttural level, and envelops you in feelings of dread and distress.”
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“Stevens has taken this premise and really run with it, turning the female revenge flick into a psycho-supernatural-mythological phantasmagoria.”
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“The desire and the yearning to be more, to do more, and to be seen and accepted by more people, is a condition that affects all us social beings, and Karaoke reminds us that just because we get older, this desire doesn’t leave us.”
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“Machoian and cinematographer Oscar Ignacio Jimnénez work like they have before, relaying their tale via long/medium-wide shots and long takes, their refusal to cut allowing Joe’s follies to go from comical, to tragic, and back again in real time.”
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“The phrase ‘finding the artist within’ holds new meaning here, Cronenberg maybe looking at his own ideas as the abnormal growths inside of him, maybe turning his lens on himself and finding the body horror in his own creative processes.”
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“The overall portrait is warmly authentic-feeling, a simultaneously specific- and universal-feeling snapshot of loved ones that wobbles in a lively manner between moments stable, elating, frustrating, and escalated.”
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“If the sound unifies, speaks to the soul, and if it transcends—as has been the case with Cymande staples like “Bra” and “Dove”—then Cymande is proof that forward-thinking listeners will naturally cultivate a respect for the past.”
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“If you’re on board, sticking with Morosini’s rollercoaster will yield zany and icky surprises, as well as some delightfully committed performances.”
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“Comedy Punks is a story of frustrations and failures, but it is not a story of giving up.”
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“Somewhere in this film is a story about shared traumas and grief, and the self-realizations born within…However, Campbell-Hughes doesn’t dive deep enough or write distinct enough voices for this story to take off, and so it stays mired.”
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“In its many years sitting shelved, Out of the Blue was still seen by the right people, and now it primal-screams out again.”
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