Describing a particularly surreal film as a ‘head trip’ is par for the course, but it feels particularly appropriate for Brandon Cronenberg’s Possessor (2020), a science fiction film about a professional killer literally taking a ride inside other people’s minds. … Continue reading REVIEW: Possessor (2020)
I am just going to go out on a limb here and guess that writer/director Steven Konstanski played with Masters of the Universe as a kid. It is not just the strong 1980s vibe of his film Psycho Goreman. It is in … Continue reading REVIEW: Psycho Goreman (2020)
Jodie Foster and Martin Sheen star in The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane, a mostly superb little Canadian thriller that sits uncomfortably between character-based drama and exploitation picture. It was released in 1976, and directed by Nicolas Gessner from … Continue reading REVIEW: The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane (1976)
A series of commuters turn up at the lost property office of a Montreal train station. One is looking for a missing binder, another for a beloved hat left in a train carriage. From this modest beginning we follow the … Continue reading REVIEW: Prayer for a Lost Mitten (2020)
Siblings Becky (Laysla De Oliviera) and Cal (Avery Whitted) stop their car beside a thick cornfield, and hear a young boy’s plaintive cries for help. They enter the field to lead the boy out, only to get lost themselves – … Continue reading REVIEW: In the Tall Grass (2019)
Alan Hakman (Robin Williams) is a ‘cutter’: a professional editor of recordings made by implants in the human brain. When the CEO of the company that owns the implant technology dies, Alan accepts the offer to edit the man’s memories … Continue reading REVIEW: The Final Cut (2004)
15 years after escaping from a place of unexplained and unsolved torture, Lucie (Mylène Jampanoï) storms into the home of a suburban family with a shotgun and massacres them in cold blood – believing them to be the people who … Continue reading REVIEW: Martyrs (2008)
Áila (Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers) is a Canadian First Nations woman. On the street she discovers Rosie (Violet Nelson): barefoot, pregnant, and bleeding, her abusive boyfriend still shouting at her from across the road. Áila wants desperately to help – but does … Continue reading REVIEW: The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open (2019)
Hollywood is, if nothing else, opportunistic. Take as an example Lamont Johnson’s 1983 science fiction adventure Spacehunter: Adventures In the Forbidden Zone. One-part space opera, one-part Mad Max pastiche, it took advantage of a then-new technique for shooting feature films … Continue reading “Nobody goes free!” | Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone (1983)
Police deputy Daniel Carter (Aaron Poole) finds a young man covered in blood on the side of the road. He takes him to the nearest rural hospital, which is immediately surrounded by masked cultists. Breaking through the cult is a … Continue reading REVIEW: The Void (2016)
