Reviews

<p>Going into The Killer I have to admit I was a little worried. Between his comments on the political intentions of the film and the awkward comments he made during the 2023 Writers Guild of America strike, Director David Fincher has shown himself to be very out of touch. And while I still think Fincher [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The sickness spreads slowly, it doesn’t matter where you picked it up, what matters is that it’s in you. Killers of the Flower Moon is about sickness, it corrodes and consumes its characters, rendering friendly folk monstrosity. Corrupting or destroying all those in proximity to its rot. Killers of the Flower Moon details a simple [&hellip;]</p>

<p>As we left the theatre playing the much-anticipated Five Nights at Freddy’s, my friend Brandon turned to me and, in a statement much more eloquent and efficient than the following paragraphs, said “What a great movie… for a fucking five-year-old.” Before I slip into a ball of white-hot fury, it should be noted that there [&hellip;]</p>

<p>No one told me Saw was camp.  For as long as I can remember, Saw X was talked about like some great-grandaddy of western torture porn, a sort of culture bridge between Hollywood and the extreme violence found in French and East Asian cinema, more notably Hong Kong and Japan, at the time.  I was [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Dumb Money is a portrait of class warfare in the digital age. It’s a story about economic inequality, careless, crass vulgarity and a society without a future. Yet, somehow, it handles all of these concepts with the care it deserves and with loads of snarky humor. From 2020 to 2021, a brief war waged by [&hellip;]</p>

<p>What happens when you grab one of the most gruesome and horrible dictators in South American history and turn into a bizarre vampire? The great mind of Chilean director and producer Pablo Larrin answers it with El Conde.   El Conde could be described as an onion for its great script writing of a dark comedy. [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Why did Scream need a sequel? Beyond that, why did it need five? The first Scream was really fun, intelligently written, and just meta enough that it didn’t have the time to be annoying. With more sequels comes more time to flesh things out, and hence Scream has now had the time to stick its [&hellip;]</p>

<p>When the trailer initially dropped for Puss in Boots: The Last Wish, I didn’t really pay it much attention. Although I grew up with Shrek, this new wave of cash-in nostalgia bait sequels and remakes has made it difficult to find these announcements exciting. In the end Puss in Boots overcame the pitfalls of its [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Skinamarink is the type of movie that slowly but surely digs its way through your skin and makes its home underneath.  It is a modern experimental ode to creepypastas, slow cinema and analog horror. It’s slow, very slow. But over its one hour and 40 minute run time, it works its way from unnerving to [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Over the past few years, movie studios have attempted to capture the strange magic of campiness in horror, but rarely have they been successful.  All of this comes from a misunderstanding surrounding “trash cinema” — a gospel that says a campy movie is a movie that is so bad, it&#8217;s good. The best of campy [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Content warning: This review mentions suicide reader discretion is advised  Smile begins with a suicide. It is a story about the horrors of mental illness and the way lingering trauma warps one’s perception of the world and entire identity. It&#8217;s a bold way to begin a film, but it encapsulates what will become the film’s [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Acadian filmmaker Mathieu Laprise’s horror comedy web series Utukku features playground bullying that escalates to the supernatural. It is devious, silly and satisfyingly over-the-top — a celebration of the urge to enact disproportionate revenge. It both parodies and validates school kid intensity, shifting from petty to poignant to gleeful. Rather than a horror-comedy, it feels [&hellip;]</p>

<p>My friend, Tristan Rampersaud, and I went to the Freddy Fright Fest haunted house at the Capital Exhibit Centre on Friday night. The decorations in the waiting area were cheap inflatables, cheesy, unconvincing stuff from Spirit Halloween. It looked good, but the decor didn’t foreshadow an authentic horror experience. Rampersaud and I wondered if this [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The greatest Batman stories have never been about the caped crusader himself, but instead the world he inhabits. Batman has always worked best when his stories are deconstructive and subversive. He is a flawed human being and The Batman arguably understands this better than any Batman film released in the past decade. Some of the [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Content Warning: This review mentions Nazi Germany and propaganda as it is a crucial topic in Act 2 of Cabaret. When I walked through the Black Box theatre doors, greeted by sailors and military men, I was instantly teleported into the Kit Kat Klub, a cabaret club in 1930s Berlin, Germany. Soft jazz music filled [&hellip;]</p>

<p>What do you get when you cross a moderately tall woman with a society that asks her about the weather? You get what you deserve — a terrible movie. Tall Girl 2 left me somewhat confused and mostly enraged. For a moment, I regretted taking this story, mostly because I wasted two hours of my [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Tick, Tick… BOOM! is an exciting and deeply intimate portrayal of an artist suffering from a severe case of main character syndrome. I feel like I should preface this entire review by making one thing very clear: I am not a theatre kid. Although I have some experience with musicals, the medium itself has never [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Theatre University of New Brunswick made its post-COVID-19 return with a bang with its production of The Romeo Initiative. The spy-based, romantic comedy was written by Trina Davis and was directed by fourth-year UNB student Juliane Richard.  Richard said TUNB wanted something exciting with “lots of twists” and technical elements. “We just figured people haven&#8217;t [&hellip;]</p>

<p>As someone who lived and breathed Dear Evan Hansen when the Tony-Award-winning musical first hit Broadway in 2015, I prayed for a stage recording or film adaptation of this show for years.  But when reviews for the movie started rolling in, I got scared.  Many critics called the film terrible and the internet wasn&#8217;t kind [&hellip;]</p>

<p>After years of speculation, conspiracy theories and outcries from comic nerds everywhere, Zack Snyder’s Justice League, or better known as “the Snyder Cut,” is finally here. After the theatrical version of Justice League in 2017, I thought the Snyder Cut was just a desperate nerd pipedream, but I’ll take the L. The film is written [&hellip;]</p>