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Director: Gareth Evans

In the last twenty years, there has perhaps been no one filmmaker more influential on the course of action cinema than Gareth Evans.

Series: Friday the 13th

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.

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Review

Black Box Investigations (2023)

Black Box Investigations is an Official Selection at the Vancouver International Film Festival. It premiers Sunday, October 1st, 8:30pm at Vancity Theatre.

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Essay List/Ranking Guest Post

Martial-Arts Movies: A Primer

This is a guest post from friend of the site and podcast, Andrew Milne, who hosts the Two Friends Watch podcast.

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Review

Bottle Rocket (1996)

Bottle Rocket doesn’t display a fully-formed version of Wes Anderson’s signature style.

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Review Podcast Rating

Z-O-M-B-I-E-S (2018)

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.

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First Man (2018)

On the surface, First Man couldn’t be less like Damien Chazelle’s previous films.

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Licorice Pizza (2021)

Gary Valentine (Cooper Hoffman), is a 15-year-old in the San Fernando Valley in 1973.

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La La Land (2016)

“We lost, by the way.”

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List/Ranking Essay

The B.A.D.S. by The Goods, 2022

Tired of the Academy Awards discourse? Me too!