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Month: August 2020

Posted onAugust 31, 2020September 25, 2020

Frightfest 2020 Short Horror Showcase 1 Review: Gruesome Shorts for ‘orrible Girls and Boys!

Bark (dir. Ryan Irving) A tree in a park witnesses people enjoying bushes, dogs and some slasher movie antics. It’s a comedy film in which...

Posted onAugust 28, 2020September 25, 2020

‘Tenet’ Review: Will you want to understand it?

A CIA agent (John David Washington) undertakes a dangerous mission to uncover the truth behind a terrifying technology that threatens the existence of the human...

Posted onAugust 27, 2020

The Scottish Film – Ep #20 – Macbeth (2018)

We did it! We reviewed every cinematic adaptation we could reasonably get our hands on without influence over time or the Thai authorities. We finish...

Posted onAugust 27, 2020September 25, 2020

‘Rosemary’s Baby’ (1968) Holds Up, Despite Polanski – Retro Review

It always upsets me when I see people my age disparaging The Beatles. I grew up on my parents’ music, and I held very narrow...

Posted onAugust 24, 2020September 25, 2020

The Legend of Crazy Joe: Lean on Me (1989) – Retro Review

If you asked me to sing the school song of any school I actually attended, I would be at a total loss. But if you...

Posted onAugust 20, 2020September 25, 2020

The Way We Were (1973), Objectivity, and What Makes a Masterpiece — Retro Review

There’s a really unfortunate New York Post piece from 2015 that posits that women are incapable of understanding Goodfellas because we’re incapable of understanding the...

Posted onAugust 20, 2020

The Scottish Film – Ep #19 – Veeram (2016)

When you take Shakespeare’s timeless tragedy and a North Indian folk tale and mix them all together in three languages at once and look at...

Posted onAugust 16, 2020

‘Proxima’ Review: To the Stars and Away from Home

It’s only a minor spoiler to reveal that Alice Winocour’s new film ends with the launch of a space shuttle. Early on it becomes clear...

Posted onAugust 13, 2020September 25, 2020

The Genre-Bending Sincere Silliness of ‘Pee-wee’s Big Adventure’ (1985) – Retro Review

Pee-wee’s Big Adventure lives rent-free in my brain. It’s a movie of images before it’s a movie of substance, but is substance really necessary when...

Posted onAugust 12, 2020

The Scottish Film – Ep #18 – Macbeth (2015)

Paul and Katy fail to find a banned Thai film and so have to settle for perhaps the greatest cinematic adaptation ever made! A film...

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