Lorcan Finnegan’s Vivarium is of vast ambition—the picture begins with a pan of baby birds squirming in their home nest, dislodged by predatory cuckoos as they screech in high-pitch, and later devo...
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Come and See refuses to relent
War films tend to ride on the line between regret and righteousness. Inherent in notions of victory is often an unspoken sentiment: it was righteous to fight evil. Western depictions tend to simpli...
Lie Exposed doesn’t expose much
Lie Exposed is adapted from Jeff Kober’s play Pornography. That’s a better title, but I guess it would sink you on the SEO. So, this ensemble drama about viewers and subjects at the gallery opening...
Come to Daddy is bloody fun for the midnight movie crowd
Tofino looks good in Come to Daddy (though it’s playing Oregon). Elijah Wood does not. His smugly idiotic haircut and precious little moustache would be perfect for one of those angry Boomer memes ...
A night of fun leads to a dark turn of events in “Death Of The Party”
“Death Of The Party” is a film that revolves around a girl named Sloane who, after a night of onesies, tequila, and poker ends up finding her brother Tyler’s dead body the next day – as well as his...
A whimsical exploration of a child’s identity takes place in “A Typical Fairytale”.
A Typical Fairytale is a film that focuses on the exploration of gulfs between parent and child, taking the form of couples Sherry and Larry, whose storybook life ends with a child named Sara. Thro...
Preview: “Grandma’s 80th Surprise” – how a mixed-race relationship leads to familial problems
Grandma’s 80th Surprise is a film that details the life of a young Chinese man named Curtis, who recently has fallen in love with a mixed-race woman named Ella. However, things begin to beco...
Terminator: Dark Fate saves the future with its astounding cast and action sequences
Tim Miller, best known for directing Deadpool, has crafted Terminator: Dark Fate into a sci-fi action movie that surpasses its predecessor, Terminator: Genisys, with superb action sequences and a m...
VIFF 2019: In the Tall Grass
Who better to pull off a horror movie set entirely in some tall grass than Vincenzo Natali, whose breakout hit Cube was set entirely in a bunch of cubes? Natali’s turned out a series of mostly unde...
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 unhurried plot progression and the sort of brazen overall weirdness that means wh...
VIFF 2019: Melancholic
Melancholic is your average romantic-comedy action-thriller crime-drama satire. It’s like Parasite on a microbudget. It’s a movie that’ll surprise you even if you see it with this description in mi...
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, fantastical, challenging, and serious-minded—full to the brim with the risks and rough ...
