Canadian winters are so magical and wonderful. Ask any Canadian, we'll tell you, we love the snow and we love traipsing around snowy hills up in the bush with no contact to the outside world. It's great. Especially when creepy blackmail is afoot. Well I mean, we need...
The Neon Demon
Nicolas Winding Refn further solidifies what has become his signature style in a film that is beautiful but frustrating. Elle Fanning plays Jesse, a young up-and-coming model who has just arrived in Los Angeles. Jesse manages to enchant every person she comes across...
Under the Shadow – Review
The more I write about movies, the more it will become obvious just how much I love creepy ghosty horror movies, even though I can’t actually handle them when I have to go to bed and turn off the lights. I am terrified of see-through ghost people staring at me from...
Fist2Fist: 2 Weapon of Choice (2014) – Review
A project has a certain purity when a martial arts teacher stars/writes/produces/choreographs and directs it. Jino Kang does all of those things in his third film FIST 2 FIST: WEAPON OF CHOICE and its undeniably an extension of its creator - stone faced, reserved and...
Three Oscar Contenders – One glorious afternoon
Until I met Justin Decloux I only ever really watched one movie in a day. And then I wanted to impress him so much that I started watching six movies a day. Finally I realized that he liked me enough that I could ease back to maybe three or four a day. And that brings...
Shin Godzilla (2016) – Review
by Justin Decloux Some thoughs on my favorite monster's new movie: https://youtu.be/ZRg7hg3n6Do
It’s Not Cranberry Sauce in ‘Blood Rage’ (1987) – Review
BLOOD RAGE is the 80's slasher at its most pure. There are teens, they hang out (for thanksgiving), and then they killed in horrific ways. That's it! There's nothing more to this 24 frames a second moving picture. Don't look for any social commentary, or a plot, or...
Terminal Island (1973) – Review
Death row prisoners are banished to an island and forced to fend for themselves in this exploitation take on LORD OF THE FLIES that succeeds in it's straight forward execution - almost to the point of stark utilitarianism. Director Sophie Rothman has said in...