The Goods: Film Reviews
In the spring of 2020, in the early days of the COVID pandemic and following the wet thud that was the ending of Game of Thrones, audiences were craving something to fill that niche in the landscape of Peak TV.
In the last twenty years, there has perhaps been no one filmmaker more influential on the course of action cinema than Gareth Evans.
The Friday the 13th series serves as a map of the rise and fall of slashers as a subgenre of film, peaking early with teen popcorn fun before tailing off into silly oblivion, stupid lore, and abandoned rebirths.
Black Box Investigations is an Official Selection at the Vancouver International Film Festival. It premiers Sunday, October 1st, 8:30pm at Vancity Theatre.
This is a guest post from friend of the site and podcast, Andrew Milne, who hosts the Two Friends Watch podcast.
Bottle Rocket doesn’t display a fully-formed version of Wes Anderson’s signature style.
In the two years since I first saw it, Z-O-M-B-I-E-S has become one of my favorite films to ponder and discuss and push upon unsuspecting viewers.
On the surface, First Man couldn’t be less like Damien Chazelle’s previous films.
Gary Valentine (Cooper Hoffman), is a 15-year-old in the San Fernando Valley in 1973.
“We lost, by the way.”