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VIDEOHEAVEN: DVD Killed the Video Store

VIDEOHEAVEN: DVD Killed the Video Store

Alex Ross Perry has spent a lot of time thinking about video rental stores. More specifically, he’s been thinking about what we can learn from their depictions on film, primarily interrogating the relationship with reality and representation, and what this representation now means that the reality has gone. The

F1: Going The Distance

F1: Going The Distance

It may seem like an easy target, but it is hard to avoid comparing Joseph Kosinski to the late Tony Scott. Scott followed up the original Top Gun with Days of Thunder, a film widely critiqued on release for feeling largely like a cheaper version of Top Gun with cars.

Ballerina: How To Get Away With IP Murder

Ballerina: How To Get Away With IP Murder

Chad Stahelski and David Leitch had no idea what they were starting when they began working on the first John Wick in 2013. After cutting their teeth doing action choreography, stunts, and second unit work for the likes of The Wachowskis, John Carpenter, Albert Pyun, and Ringo Lam, they wanted

The Phoenician Scheme: Immaculate Chaos

The Phoenician Scheme: Immaculate Chaos

Every line would be the funniest thing you’ve ever heard if not for every other line.

Bring Her Back: Hollow Horror From Messy Misery

Bring Her Back: Hollow Horror From Messy Misery

Pure misery, mean-spirited and endless cruelty that doesn't have the slightest inkling of how to leverage that cruel energy into something impactful.

SIFF 2025: Souleymane's Story // Bitter Gold

SIFF 2025: Souleymane's Story // Bitter Gold

Souleymane's Story dir. Boris Lojkine The humming neon betrays a sense of extant hopelessness, the rain slicked Parisian streets bustling with life but only on the surface – the city of romance and dreams built on the back of migrant hustle, people desperately working and clinging onto distant possibility.

SIFF 2025: Happyend // Cloud

Happyend dir. Neo Sora Carves a neo-fascist dystopian cyberpunk landscape out of negative space, a lo-fi exploration of disaffected youth in the spirit of Blue Spring or Rebels of the Neon God. Adolescence in search of catharsis and connection pushed into authoritarian structures and regressive ideals, the throes of angst