A Comedic Journey into Tragedy: Joel Potrykus on Vulcanizadora
By Jenny Paola Ortega Castillo. The goal, really, was to keep the audience off balance and unsure of how to
By Jenny Paola Ortega Castillo. The goal, really, was to keep the audience off balance and unsure of how to
By Yun-hua Chen. I believe that all characters possess innate sensibility, which surfaces when given a chance.”—Elene Naveriani "Do you
By Thomas M. Puhr. Much more than an interesting time capsule...it’s also a minor horror classic in its own right, one well-deserving of a spot alongside Clark’s superior genre work."
A Book Review by Caroline Joan S. Picart. The edited collection aspires to supply a set of 'tools' for researchers and students – that is, common approaches and vocabularies for
By Jeremy Carr. The repeated, formulaic structure, lack of development, and its insistence on by-the-numbers genre touchstones make for what is merely a passable war movie...." Murder Company almost immediately
By Elias Savada. A great Dolbyized and super-sized disaster ride." Youngsters, let me tell you something. Back a generation or so, in the late 20th century, there was a very
By Thomas M. Puhr. While occasionally touching and buoyed by across-the-board strong performances...the resulting film is excessively earnest at best, and manipulative at worst." Patrick Dickinson blends the multigenerational family
By Yun-hua Chen. Universal Language mocks our limited imagination by opening up its limitless possibilities...." “Cinematic Venn diagramme between Winnipeg, Tehran and Montréal”, or “a Hawaiian pizza”, as director Matthew
A Book Review by Dávid Szőke. A carefully detailed account of the vampire archetype’s journey from literary and folkloric origins to the silent screen...." “Schreck’s peculiarities are like lovemaking games,”
By Jeremy Carr. Ben Model and his Undercrank Productions continue to deliver eclectic fare from the annals of film history, distributing movies that shed light on their respective era, their
By Thomas M. Puhr. Much more than an interesting time capsule…it’s also a minor horror classic in its own right, one well-deserving of a spot alongside Clark’s superior genre work.” Movies like Bob Clark’s Deathdream (aka Dead of Night, aka The Night Andy Came Home, 1974) operate by blunt-force symbolism. […]
A Book Review by Caroline Joan S. Picart. The edited collection aspires to supply a set of ‘tools’ for researchers and students – that is, common approaches and vocabularies for theorizing monstrosity – and then provides an interdisciplinary selection of important readings theorizing monsters and monstrosity….” The Monster Theory Reader […]
By Jenny Paola Ortega Castillo. The goal, really, was to keep the audience off balance and unsure of how to feel.” –Joel Potrykus Joel Potrykus has crafted yet another unforgettable cinematic experience with his latest chilling film, Vulcanizadora (2024). Potrykus weaves a narrative that oscillates between moments of comedic camaraderie […]
By Yun-hua Chen. I believe that all characters possess innate sensibility, which surfaces when given a chance.” —Elene Naveriani “Do you realize how much beauty surrounds us? I wish to be alone, to do what I want, how I like, and when I like,” declares Etero, a 48-year-old woman from […]
By Jeremy Carr. The repeated, formulaic structure, lack of development, and its insistence on by-the-numbers genre touchstones make for what is merely a passable war movie….” Murder Company almost immediately recalls many of the war movies produced during the Golden Age of Hollywood. Not the big budget, star-studded epics, but […]
By Elias Savada. A great Dolbyized and super-sized disaster ride.” Youngsters, let me tell you something. Back a generation or so, in the late 20th century, there was a very popular film called Twister (catch it on MAX), an action trembler with a very sexy Helen Hunt and the late […]
By Theresa Rodewald. There is a lot of dark, a lot of noir to be found in Bologna after all….” Bologna in late June is terracotta porticos, scorching sun and sweat. A city in dusty pastel colours, full of medieval remnants, with the world’s oldest university. Quite possibly the opposite […]
By David Ryan. Miyazaki moves beyond illustrating simple contrasts by creating relationships in apposition (not opposition), and this interdependency often encourages experiential growth for his younger protagonists.” Writer-director Hayao Miyazaki’s films are carefully planned adventures into the realms of innocence and experience. His abstract themes and dense stories have garnered […]
By Thomas M. Puhr. While occasionally touching and buoyed by across-the-board strong performances…the resulting film is excessively earnest at best, and manipulative at worst.” Patrick Dickinson blends the multigenerational family portrait, fish-out-of-water tale, and couple-grapples-with-Alzheimer’s drama to middling effect in Cottontail (2023). It seems the writer-director figured that if he […]
By M. Sellers Johnson. I wanted to address the horror of watching somebody slowly becoming disfigured and losing their grip on sanity…. To me, that was the scary part of the movie and what we really wanted to do.” —Joshua John Miller At the time of its release, the iconic […]