A hybrid of flesh eating piranhas are released into the rivers surrounding a summer resort, accidentally of course. No other animal attacking film has spawned so many follow-up or “inspired by” films as these beloved creatures. As natural flesh eaters and frantic in their feeding frenzies, they’re practically horror film fodder waiting to happen…
Similar to how the action genre has been mostly eaten up by giant comic book movies, the horror genre has suffered an equally tragic devouring. It’s hard to remember the last horror film that didn’t have someone clutching a crucifix while battling a demon baby growing inside their stomach…
Bong Joon-ho is a leading figure of the Korean New Wave and one of the most innovative filmmakers working today. Known for a macabre sense of humor, deft sensibility and social consciousness, he consistently garners excellent reviews and cult praise…
Joaquim Pedro de Andrade (1932-1988) is certainly one of the key filmmakers of Brazilian filmmaking of the 1960s and early 1970s. But due in part to his early passing, he has a brief albeit highly diverse filmography consisting of five feature films, a feature-length documentary, and eight short films. Despite their diversity of …
Toronto is the place to be during World Pride. With a parade that generates thousands of visitors and endless events during one week in the year, it’s refreshing to see attention being paid to great impact queer cinema has had on the cinema.
Horror films have been terrifying me since I first set eyes on them. As a genre, there are many reasons for the seemingly constant production and audiences keep coming back for the thrill of the scare. Asian horror films are in a complex league of their own, more often than not being the subject of a Hollywood remake. Sadly the …
Food is as much a constant for humanity as sex and death, but far fewer films seem exclusively dedicated to the subject. Maybe this is because food can take on so many connotations and serve so many varied functions, from production through consumption, that the contours of a “food genre” can be hard to pinpoint…
The year 2014 marks the tenth anniversary of the death of Rogério Sganzerla (1946-2004), a seminal figure in words and images of what is commonly referred to as Cinema marginal (‘marginal cinema’) or the udigrudi (‘underground’) in Brazil. Sganzerla began as a film critic at the age of seventeen before he helmed his first film, the 1966 short titled …
From 5-23 June, the Museum of Modern Art will present ‘MK2: Carte blanche,’ a film series devoted to the eclectic films produced by the company MK2. This year is the fortieth anniversary of the company’s founding, and the film series is a celebration of both the company and its founder Marin Karmitz. MK2 is one of the biggest independent …
From 10 May to 24 July, the Museum of Modern Art’s film series ‘On the Edge: Brazilian Film Experiments of the 1960s and 1970s’ serves as a complement to the exhibition ‘Lygia Clark: The Abandonment of Art, 1948-1988.’ Both the exhibition and film series celebrate Brazilian cultural production at a time of intense creative ferment across multiple …