After coming home, a woman attempts to do everyday things and tasks while a creature creeps up on her, trying to take control of her.
Category Archives: Movie Reviews
Til Death Do Us Part (2023)
Damnit. Timothy Woodward Jr’.s “Til Death Do Us Part” is a wonderful idea, one ripe for a great horror comedy with a ton of action and what we ultimately got was just… not what I was completely expecting. Granted, the movie does have a wonderful grasp on what it’s trying to do, but the delivery just felt off. It’s a movie that clocks in at almost two hours, and rather than charge in head first with the laughs and action. Instead the movie takes a lot of time, at least twenty or thirty minutes, establishing the initial storyline and back story.
Tokyo Pop (1988)
Opens with a New 35th Anniversary 4K Restoration by Indie Collect in New York at BAM Rose Cinemas on August 4th and in Los Angeles at the American Cinematheque on August 11th, followed by national expansion.
Watching Fran Rubel Kuzui’s gave me a mysterious sense of déjà vu as her movie “Tokyo Pop” is very much about a misplaced American experiencing culture shock and alienation in an Asian country. Then I realize that Sofia Coppola pretty much conveyed almost the exact same narrative in her acclaimed “Lost in Translation.” Fran Rubel Kuzui’s “Tokyo Pop” from 1988 was an obvious influence that apparently never really was discussed very much. So much of “Tokyo Pop” is similar in tone, aesthetic and the idea of using media as a means of helping people to connect. With “Tokyo Pop” characters Wendy and Hiro use music as a means of connecting in a world where they’re separated by language and culture.
Transylvanie (2023) [Fantasia Film Festival 2023]
A young girl being bullied for thinking she’s a vampire decides to show her bullies that she really is a vampire.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem (2023)
What we’re seeing with “Mutant Mayhem” is what happens after every movie makes a bang at the box office. The “The Spider-Verse” movies were so beloved and influential that we can expect studios to ape its animation and storytelling style for at least a few years. The first of what will probably be many to come is “Mutant Mayhem.” Jeff Rowe’s animated movie is a new re-imagining of Eastman and Laird’s “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” franchise, but aimed a lot more toward Generation Z. That’s both a quality that improves what producers Seth Rogen and Evan Goldbergh aim to be the beginning of a new wave of popularity for the Turtles, and a hindrance.
With Love and a Major Organ (2023) [Fantasia Film Festival 2023]
In a world similar to ours, but even more detached from emotions, a young woman has a change of heart and decides to try to fit in with the more coldhearted people in the population. Her mother passes and things start devolving for her.
Y’a une étoile (2023) [Fantasia Film Festival 2023]
A documentary about queer life in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick as seen through the eyes of queer people and their loved ones interconnected with the songs of Angele Arsenault.