Film

The first feminist gesture is to say: “OK, they’re looking at me. But I’m looking at them.” The act of deciding to look, of deciding that the world is not defined by how people see me, but how I see them. These profound words were said by the queen of…

Jorma Tommila cuts a bloody swathe through Nazis in Jalmari Helander’s agreeably ultraviolent wartime action romp. — Sometimes, all one needs from a film is 90 minutes of Nazis getting their comeuppance in brutally bloody style. Finish director Jalmari Helander delivers these genre goods at a surprisingly low budget, with major value for money onscreen and cult status all but assured. …

The legendary director says he’s only beginning to understand the possibility of cinema…but it’s too late — In case you missed it, Martin Scorsese was recently interviewed by Deadline about his new film KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON. Now, I normally wouldn’t bring anything Deadline says to your attention — my issues with the alleged “news” site are legion — but at the end of Mike Fleming…

Premodern, Modern, Postmodern, Metamodern — Picking a fight with the Hipster PoMo 30 Somethings of youtube over on the Science Fiction channel. In fact I like Thomas Flight’s video essay a lot but I think he makes the mistakes that all postmoderns make about metamodernism…they make it a pomo rebrand. So I go to bat…

Recently, I've gone down a YouTube rabbit hole of AI-generated content, and I've gotten rather excited about the potential that this technology holds for the future of cinema, and art as a whole. There's certainly a concern about artificial intelligence disrupting the job market and possibly enslaving humanity by 2030…

Originally, this film is an adaptation of a highly popular manga in Japan, and it has gained immense popularity not only in Japan but particularly in Asia as well. From a technical perspective in animation, I believe it will become the landmark for future anime movies, setting the next…

All of them left me speechless — It was my childhood dream to become a NASA astronaut. I wanted to fly in rockets, visit the International Space Station, and view planet Earth from a completely different perspective. And, if I just so happened to see an alien or two along the way, I wouldn’t complain. Unfortunately, I…

A glum Ben Affleck stars in this silly, derivative, humourless thriller from Robert Rodriguez. — The plot of Hypnotic contains more holes than a Swiss cheese factory and makes about as much sense as an education law passed by the Florida legislature. Not only is it derivative of numerous superior thrillers and sci-fi films, but it also features a glum and unconvincing Ben Affleck in…