Essential Viewing

We’ve all been in those relationships where we suspect our significant other has dark secrets.  We may come across certain secrets by chance, or we may be willingly denying ourselves from accepting a long foreseen truth. …

This review was originally published on Horror Buffs – James’ genre review website, on October 31, 2013.   Every once in a while a film is so well received and becomes so iconic that it…

Pixar has always been a cutting edge leading studio, not just with animation, but with narrative.  From Toy Story, the first full length computer animated film to Wall-E, a 2001: A Space Odyssey for families,…

So I wanted to make this list as inclusive as possible and not simply focus on American films.  I’ve compiled the 10 best films form the last 10 years from 7 different countries.  As per…

Erdinch gives us a top five list of magnificent films directed by actors, representing a portion of entertainers who understand great storytelling   Orson Welles – The Magnificent Ambersons (1942) Welles is probably the ultimate…

It has been difficult trying to convince people to watch this film without overselling it or without making the premise seem silly. When I do manage to successfully explain the premise of this, people assume…

For almost as long as there has been art there has been convention and since convention, there have been those who have strived to push those boundaries.  The innovators and visionaries who always try to…

Film genre is always an interesting topic of consideration, both from the spectator’s as well as the analytical perspectives.  The genre and its associated conventions are often unwittingly called upon to inform the spectator’s expectations…

To celebrate Friday the 13th, I thought I’d look at a genre classic that directly influenced the film with the title of today’s date. The slasher film is a subgenre of horror that is built…

Two hundred and fifty years prior to the release of George A Romero’s Dawn of the Dead, Jonathan Swift wrote “A Modest Proposal,” a vicious satire that advocated the idea that Ireland’s impoverished class would…