Sometimes a plot is more than enough to keep the audience interested when the characters are substantial enough to carry it from beginning to end. But when the creative opportunity comes to add a second story that might even work as a twist, it can get better. In the case of Funny Face, one story [...]

Fantasia Film Festival 2020 Screening - A raw and unflinching look at how virtual reality creeps into the livelihood of a lonely-boy and takes up too much space, PVT Chat (2020) is a melodramatic, awkward, and slightly creepy love story. PVT Chat's shot-on-video production-quality is saved by writer/director Ben Hozie's uber arthouse directing and framing [...]

Fantasia Film Festival 2020 Screening - Woman of the Photographs (2020) is a sight and sound sensory experience that delves deep into the small, but loud, world of writer/director Takeshi Kushida. It is one of the most visually stunning movies of the year, in my humble opinion, and its narrative is equally moving, mixing poignant [...]

Being surrounded by people in their late 20s early 30s there is a clear shift from casual dating to people wanting to find their life partner. For many of them, it is a serious search, and for others the idea of a long term commitment is terrifying. Some might say that they have Philophobia: Or [...]

A smaller sub-genre of film that is rarely explored is the reliving events genre. Probably the most classic example is Groundhog Day with  Bill Murray, and a modern version would be Edge of Tomorrow with  Tom Cruise. What is rarely explored in the genre, if at all, is a romance that is caught in a time loop. [...]

Amazon Prime Video has released a new full-length trailer that gives a first glimpse at season one of CARNIVAL ROW. The series is set in a Victorian fantasy world filled with mythological immigrant creatures whose exotic homelands were invaded by the empires of man. This growing population struggles to coexist with humans — forbidden to [...]

Between Worlds, a supernatural romance thriller that has little to do with the supernatural or romance or thriller follows Joe (Nicolas Cage), a down-on-his-luck truck driver with a tragic past (so basically, a truck driver) who rescues Julie (Franka Potente) from being choked in a public restroom. She explains that she is able to communicate [...]