Review

Director: Jack Kroeger. Actors: Georgina Campbell, Bill Skarsgård, Justin Long. 18,107 min. Every opportunity in life is actually a risk. For women, any danger is a potential threat. The violent horror film subtly exploits this tension before becoming a chaotic monster movie that constantly raises viewers' expectations. Tess Marshall (Georgina Campbell) arrives in Detroit for … Read more

© TIF There are many dark dramas out there that depict trauma without proper upbringing. Plagued by anti-black stereotypes, these big-budget narratives are often celebrated by the film elite, while independent films (which are usually ten times better) are discarded and forgotten. Based on the novel by David Chariandi and premiered at the Toronto Film … Read more

"A bad plan is better than no plan." It's an in-joke that pops up at various points during Black Man , and while it's meant to be a pointless commentary on the assignment, on its second iteration it starts to sound like an apology to the film itself and its story. A mixture. The problem … Read more

Pinocchio Guillermo del Toro resurrects the classic fairy tale in one of the most beautiful animated films to come out in recent years, a powerful and life-affirming father and son story of acceptance and love in the face of pain, suffering and fascism. The director's love for monsters is one of his best films of … Read more

Every horror movie is about pain, but only Hellraiser is about sadomachism – electricity and pain, his highest calling. Hellraiser, the 1987 reboot of the franchise that spawned nine sequels (time freezes when you think they're suffering for fun), is a film that captures the outrageous appeal of Clive Barker's 1986 novel. Sacred heart. But … Read more