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Remember the good old days of thrillers that took place on a train? It’s such a ripe setting to create suspense, as films like Alfred Hitchcock’s The Lady Vanishes and Sidney Lumet’s Murder on the Orient Express have proven. It seems like in modern times though, with so many people opting to travel [...]

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What if I told you that once upon a time slasher films weren’t generic and some even had a point to their story?  You’d probably call me a liar and smack me upside the head with a brick.  But, I swear it was true.  Some might say these early slasher films are giallos, but at [...]

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After the experimental but ultimately disappointing Loft (review), Kiyoshi Kurosawa is back with Retribution, a crime thriller with ghostly elements akin to Cure and Kairo. While I won’t tout this as Kurosawa’s return to form, it is a culmination of many of his films previous styles, and once again has a lot to say [...]

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I love when nonsensical newspaper articles get made into films. It gives Jay Leno’s Headlines a little hope. I can’t wait to see the “Urine stained mattress - $200 or best offer” movie.
Allow me to continue with my infantile Opposite Day…

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I’m an admitted Kiyoshi Kurosawa fanboy. Cure and Kairo are masterpieces of modern Japanese cinema as far as I’m concerned, and his films are generally wildly unique and visionary. He cut his teeth in the horror genre, and I was definitely looking forward to him revisiting the realm of the macabre with Loft, his [...]

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Karen Moncreif delivers another great film after her 2003 debut, Blue Car. The Dead Girl is a film of 5 vignettes detailing the lives of 5 women who are all living trapped in unhappy, unfulfilled lives. The reasons for these women living the way they do are each different, as some are by choice, [...]

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