Who better to pull off a horror movie set entirely in some tall grass than Vincenzo Natali, whose breakout hit Cube w…
VIFF 2019: Hard-Core
Hard-Core isn’t the sort of movie to make a big splash in North America. It’s a low-budget manga adaptation with an u…
VIFF 2019: Melancholic
Melancholic is your average romantic-comedy action-thriller crime-drama satire. It’s like Parasite on a microbudget. …
VIFF 2019: Children of the Sea
Children of the Sea is the kind of kid’s movie that you can feel good about showing to kids. It’s idealistic, fantast…
VIFF 2019: Vanishing Days
I didn’t enjoy watching Vanishing Days all that much. That’s too broad and too subjective to be of help to you, dear …
VIFF 2019: Wild Sparrow
Wild Sparrow opens with a set of images so obvious you’ll be certain you know where it’s going. You won’t be wrong, b…
VIFF 2019: Parasite
From Memories of Murder to The Host to Snowpiercer, Bong Joon-ho has built up a small store of images in my brain. A …
VIFF 2019: Guest of Honour
Your familiarity with Atom Egoyan may be a good indicator for your enjoyment of Guest of Honour. Maybe you’ve been wa…
VIFF 2019: No. 7 Cherry Lane
Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood will be the most talked-about movie this year to recreate and playf…
VIFF 2019: The Lighthouse
It’s a year for follow-ups: The Lighthouse, Us, The Nightingale, The Lodge, Under the Silver Lake, and Midsommar all …
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is about as charming as a Manson movie will ever get
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is charming. That’s not a description you expect to see for a Tarantino movie. Well, yo…
Men in Black goes ‘International’ with slicker suits and less personality
Men in Black: International is probably most interesting as an example of how films have changed. It’s the same movie…
