Many documentaries have been made about family farms in hard times, with struggles caused by large scale farming, bad economies, poor weather, etc. At first glance, On Her Own looks like it could just be another in a row of films documenting the plight of the independent farmer, but it’s really more about how Nancy […]
Director Britni West’s collage of life in rural Montana will undoubtedly draw comparisons to the work of Terrence Malick. It is free flowing in form, beautifully shot, and its narrative is secondary to an overall feeling the film creates with different characters providing poetic voiceover in favour of dialogue. The film shifts between several “protagonists” […]
The vampire genre gets some much needed new blood in the spooky and sweet A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
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It's a terrible movie, but at least The Boy Next Door manages to be hilariously awful.
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Why Don't You Play in Hell? is gleefully deranged enough to be a cult classic, but too messy to ever be called a good film.
The ultraviolent Indonesian thriller Killers still manages to be an arresting character study of two very different serial killers.
Not even the stupidest of kids will fall for the cloying, George Lucas produced Strange Magic.
Manny looks a Filipino boxing legend Manny Pacquiao with a balance between the laudatory and the critical.
We talk with veteran Canadian actress Kate Trotter about her role in the indie drama Tru Love.
