Film noir casts a long (dark) shadow over cinema. Since French critics retroactively applied the term to crime films of the 1940s, filmmakers across the world and through the decades have attempted to emulate and update the look and feel of what was never designed as a coherent genre. From […]
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The Foul King (2000) Rediscovering a Song Kang-ho Wrestling Romp (Review)
Concrete Utopia (2023) Bleak and Brutal But Riveting Modern Dystopia (Review)
Dystopian stories come in a variety of different forms, and we’ve been treated to many examples of them in recent years. There’s the YA dystopias such as The Hunger Games and Maze Runner that explore systemic oppression in fantastical societies, the more relatable urban dystopias such as Daniel Kaluuya and […]
You’ll Never Find Me (2024): Visually Ambitious Slow-Burn Aussie Horror (Review)
A Million Days (2023)Hard Sci-Fi or Hardly Sci-Fi?(Review)
Artificial Intelligence is a concept as old as science fiction itself, and for much of that history it wasn’t the practical (if weird and problematic) tool that we know today. It was instead manifested as something that threatened humanity, and you need look no further than some classic examples like […]
Damsel (2024) – Millie Bobby Brown Showcase Only Delivers Some Of The Goods (SPOILER Review)
Doctor Jekyll (2023): Entertaining Reinterpretation of Classic Story (Review)
Tropic (2022) Sci-Fi as a deeply personal take on Male Pride (Review)
Deliver Us (2024): Antichrist horror sacrifices ambiguity for shock (Review)
History of Evil (2024) A Thoroughly American Horror Story (Review)
If you haven’t heard anything about the latest “Shudder Original”, History of Evil (2024), prior to its recent arrival on the platform, then you’re not alone; seemingly little information was made public on the film prior to its release, aside from its cast list and a vague, one-sentence plot summary. […]