CHILD’S PLAY: Persistent Hitchcockian Effectiveness
To celebrate the Halloween season, Jakub Flasz in his latest essay delves into the mechanics of suspense in Child’s Play and examines its Hitchcockian roots.
JAWS THE REVENGE: A Cult-less Classic?
On the occasion of the Halloween season, Jakub Flasz ponders if JAWS: THE REVENGE is a classic or just a terrible film.
ClapperCast - Episode 24: The Trial of Chicago 7, The Wolf of Snow Hollow, and The Forty Year Old Version
On Episode 24 of ClapperCast, the team discuss Aaron Sorkin’s sophomore effort The Trial of Chicago 7, Jim Cumming’s The Wolf of Snow Hollow, and Radha Blank’s The Forty Year Old Version
Chuko Esiri and Arie Esiri: “The more I discovered my roots the more I fell in love once more with the place of my birth”
George Lewis talks to Chuko Esiri and Arie Esiri about heritage, shooting on 16mm, London Film Festival and the duos latest film Eyimofe (This Is My Desire)
LFF 2020: African Apocalypse
One can only hope that African Apocalypse will be counted among heralds of an impending reckoning with the past
Every Time I Die
Every Time I Die serves as a thought provokingly interesting film
VIFF 2020: Chained
Chained lacks subtlety
AFI FEST 2020: My Donkey, My Lover & I
My Donkey, My Lover, and I is far from revolutionary but is a perfectly strong romantic comedy
CIFF 2020: Sylvie’s Love
Sylvie’s Love is a highly stylistic love story that overall works quite beautifully
LFF 2020: New Order
The level of craft that is involved here continuously impresses
GRIMMFEST 2020: Fried Barry
Fried Barry is the embodiment of chaos in the best sense of the word
CIFF 2020: Summer of 85
Summer of 85 is a charming look at adolescence and the pain that can naturally occur over one summer
ClapperCast - Episode 23: TIFF Global Roundtable (reviews)
On this special episode of ClapperCast, the team - joined by LV Taylor and Ricardo Gallegos - take a look at Toronto International Film Festival and celebrate the terrific films on show
The Queen's Gambit
A Netflix original limited series worth keeping an eye on
CIFF 2020: True Mothers
True Mothers fails to make the most of it’s emotional plot
AFI FEST 2020: I’m Your Woman
I’m Your Woman is yet another strong example of Julia Hart’s skill and range as a filmmaker
LFF 2020: A Common Crime
A Common Crime is, rather unwittingly, too passive for its own good
LFF 2020: Possessor
Brandon Cronenberg writes and directs an intriguing deep dive into the ideas of identity and the self
LFF 2020: Ammonite
Ammonite is not the wholly original roar of filmmaking prowess it needs to be, but an ersatz of one.
VIFF 2020: Events Transpiring Before, During, and After a High School Basketball Game
A wonderfully intimate and gleefully brooding pot of a character study