Strange Darling

Strange Darling

The final reign of terror of a serial killer is told in a non-linear fashion in Strange Darling. The Lady (Willa Fitzgerald) is being pursued down a rural stretch of road by the Demon (Kyle Gallner), who shoots at her with a shotgun. The Lady eventually takes shelter at the home of an eccentric doomsday…

Falling

Falling

A man has to care for his deeply cruel and homophobic dementia-suffering father in Falling. John Peterson (Viggo Mortensen) is a gay man, who brings his father Willis (Lance Henriksen), who is suffering from the early signs of dementia, to John’s home in California with his husband Eric (Terry Chen) and daughter Monica (Gabby Velis)….

Insidious: Chapter 2

Insidious: Chapter 2

James Wan returns with his second horror film of the year (and apparently his final one for the foreseeable future).  Insidious: Chapter 2 takes place nearly immediately after the events of the previous film and sees Josh and Renai Lambert (Patrick Wilson and Rose Byrne) staying with their kids at the house of Josh’s mother…

The Manor

The Manor

One of the first shots seen in, Hot Docs opening film, The Manor is a man cleaning a neon sign of a suggestively posed woman.  If you were unaware of the fact the the Manor of the title is a strip club located in Guelph, the film makes sure to enlighten you to this fact…

Black Swan

Black Swan

Darren Aronofsky is known for being a bit of a visionary, so it would have been obvious that a film about ballet would turn out to be more than meets the eye. It would be hard to talk about this film without going into spoiler-territory, however I can say that the film is about a…