I like to believe I am hard to impress given my experience and background in film and doubly so in respect to the genre of vampire cinema (not being a fan considering the field’s artistic limitations). Moreover, when regarding short works by unestablished filmmakers,...
I have not watched many good horror films this year. You can tell by the reviews I have posted on the site in the past nine months. It was not until last week that I actually saw a film that I found to be worthy of the best film of the year in Bereavement. However, a...
Let’s face it. Death itself is a terrifying thing. We don’t know when or how we are going to die, only that we will someday. We may live until we are in our 90s or we can die suddenly at a young age without any fulfillment of what we could achieve, whether it be a...
[Segments of the following review have previously appeared, in varied form, in City Slab Magazine #10.] There exist very few truly existential works of cinema. Martin Scorsese’s After Hours and Taxi Driver, Harold Ramis’s Groundhog Day, Vincenzo Natali’s Cube, Hiroshi...
One of my best friends from when I was younger, always wanted to be a Navy Seal. He trained hard everyday and had the drive to join the navy, get into the seals and become one. He is still one, and although I rarely see and talk to him. I know that what he is doing...
This movie was great! I tell ya folks, there has been some great films coming out of South Korea this year from Tartan Video USA. “Acacia” reminds me of a film I used to watch back in Junior High called “The Guardian”, although the stories are...
