THE PEOPLE'S JOKER is a deconstruction of legitimacy and "anti-woke" "comedy"
by Jo Rempel, Staff Writer
Either you die the People’s Joker (isn’t there enough trans death in the world?) or live long enough to see yourself become Todd Philips.
by Jo Rempel, Staff Writer
Either you die the People’s Joker (isn’t there enough trans death in the world?) or live long enough to see yourself become Todd Philips.
by Jo Rempel, Staff Writer
Saints is less interested in political struggle—the lives and deaths of many—than it is in the moral struggle of one man.
by Jo Rempel, Staff Writer
Key to T Blockers’ urgency is the notion that no matter how much vigilante justice happens in the moment, this apocalypse has happened before and will happen again.
by Jo Rempel, Staff Writer
Happy birthday to Robert Altman, who would’ve turned 99 today
by Jo Rempel, Staff Writer
Soon after I watched it for the first time, Moonstruck became a fact of life. Maybe it’s because I was entering the peak of my Cage infatuation; maybe it’s because romcoms are rarely imbued with such bombast; maybe it’s because I remain enamoured with Italian-American affectation.
by Jo Rempel, Staff Writer
“Peaked in high school” is an insult for a reason.
by Jo Rempel, Staff Writer
I’ve made the executive decision for this list to be as subjective as possible, with arbitrary rules about what constitutes “a 2023 movie.”
by Jo Rempel, Staff Writer
The Card Counter is not an anxious film. Looking at the film through Tell’s eyes, bad odds are taken as a given, so no point in worrying.
by Jo Rempel, Staff Writer
The canon I’m drawing up today are of those essential noirs that keep it car-centric throughout. Each of these pictures builds its own perception of the motor.
by Jo Rempel, Staff Writer
As an ex-teen/ex-boy, any teen boy depicted with a hint of realism is going to freak me out. I just happen to find anything close to my adolescence deeply unpleasant.
by Jo Rempel, Contributor
The Fifth Thoracic Vertebra is tense—seeing two people occupy a bedroom gives a new twist on Hitchcock’s adage about telling the audience a bomb’s about to go off—but its emotional arc is closer to ensemble films like Magnolia, or Cloud Atlas.
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Something You Said Last Night, Italian-Canadian writer/director Luis De Filippis’ debut feature, is a modern Casablanca, a story told almost entirely via vape smoke.
by Jo Rempel, Staff Writer
What exactly do you do when the world really does continue turning? Love Life makes such a question feel astonishingly light.
by Jo Rempel, Staff Writer
Casting him as father of us all, Mo Better Blues’ ending serves as a proof of concept for Washington taking on the titular lead in Malcolm X.
by Jo Rempel, Staff Writer
Where, oh where have the neo-noirs gone? The cinema can still be full of surprises, but the seedy side of America isn’t doing it. So leave it to a Canadian, Avan Jogia, to deliver the goods.
by Jo Rempel, Contributor
Lupino told stories of deep fissures in the heart of America, of people like her who told stories of dependance to survive.