TIFF Journal: Assassination Nation
Sam “Son of Barry” Levinson’s second feature, Assassination Nation, is a big, bold and insane satire that’s angry about most of the things going on in internet-obsessed culture. One of the many obvious refe...
Sam “Son of Barry” Levinson’s second feature, Assassination Nation, is a big, bold and insane satire that’s angry about most of the things going on in internet-obsessed culture. One of the many obvious refe...
Le bad boy du French cinema is back. Gaspar Noé (Irreversible) has long made a name for himself with technically ambitious and stunningly crafted works rooted in cinematic sleaze. The provocateur is known for assaulting the senses...
Moonlight may have been an impossible act for writer/director Barry Jenkins to follow. Few films have hit the culture at just the right time and in just the right way like that one. The success guaranteed that he could do whatever...
White Boy Rick is a big, zany true crime story that plays like gangbusters moment to moment without ever quite settling into a consistent tone or message. It’s easy to see why the movie was made and it’s easy to sell w...
Following the success of La La Land, Damien Chazelle essentially guaranteed that he could make whatever the hell he wanted next. A film chronicling Neil Armstrong’s personal journey along the race to the moon certainly didn&...
A lot of people are furious at legendary documentarian Errol Morris for having the gall to make a documentary about contemporary Prince of Darkness Steve Bannon. That’s understandable. Why give this guy a platform if you con...
Paul Greengrass might have made his mark on blockbuster cinema with the jittery, politicized uneasiness that he brought to the spy genre via the Jason Bourne franchise, but thankfully he used those successes as a means of continui...
Three movies into his career, writer/director Peter Strickland has already established a weird niche for himself as a filmmaker. Each of his features could be boiled down to a premise that describes a 1970s Eurotrash exploitation ...
When it was announced that Shane Black would bring the Predator franchise back from the dead, it didn’t face nearly the same level of hype or skepticism as the return of the Alien series. The Predator has no masterful mythol...
Destroyer is a hardboiled bit of crime pulp that you’ve seen a thousand times before. Of course, the filmmakers know that and hope that the ingenuity comes in the telling and the details. Unfortunately, director Karyn Kusama...
The Sisters Brothers is another contemporary Western that seems to exist purely to prove that the genre is still relevant while telling a story about the demise of the West. It all started with Peckinpah before Eastwood kept at it...
Decapitations, possessions, exploding everything, splatstick humor, and Monica Bellucci as the queen of the underworld… Nekrotronic seems like the sort of nerdy horror show guaranteed to please anyone who enjoys such things. Unfor...