Son of Kong (1933) By Justin Decloux How do you follow up one most monumental pieces of entertainment in human history? You make a quickie seventy minute sequel and release it nine months later. Son of Kong has been forgotten to the sands of time. Its a footnote,...
Legend of Zu was one of the first Hong Kong DVDs I ever bought. I got it from a tiny shop in Ottawa's China Town and forked over around $40 (two weeks worth of bag boy work!) to pay for the retail release. I'm not sure why that particular movie was the one that caught...
"You watched them all over again?" a number of friends asked this week. "Yes, I did" I would say sadly. "Why?" The idea of being a completest means nothing in this world. With so much stuff to absorb, being able to say "I did it all," rings like a broken bell in an...
Resident Evil: Retribution is not a film. It’s a broken video game, whose code has gone sour, crashing together in explosions of non-sequitur, desperate to excite. I like it. Like every film of the franchise the first fifteen are the strongest, with a straight lift...
2016 was a terrible year and I don't think anyone will argue against that, do I need to remind you of all the terrible things that happened in the last 12 months? Well I don't want to, read it somewhere else I'm not your mother. 2016 was NOT a terrible year for movies...
By Chloë Brett As we move forward into yet another year, it’s time to take a (very belated) look back at 2016 and all the films that came with it. Of the over 200 2016 releases I saw, I’ve narrowed it down to about 40 that I deem worthy of discussion. Though there are...
Motorama is pure fever dream cinema and the kind of film that just doesn't get made anymore: A medium budget David Lynchian road adventure that is equally cock-eyed dark comedy and R rated metaphorical journey that happens to star a kid. It could only exist at a time...
