Hey everyone, James here (a.k.a. the Boss, Rooster Illusion, etc.). Our twelve dedicated readers will surely recognize the banner above this intro, but for the rest of you, it’s my pleasure to introduce Colin French, writing under the column name of Strange Bacon. Back in the archives, you can find his thoughts on Canadian cinema,…
It may come off as vaguely ironic to some that a column named after food from a pig would be the one to cover a Jewish horror film. That’s fully understandable, but I hope that you’ll allow me this one indulgence. This film caught my curiosity, t was on Netflix streaming just a year after…
We’re taking a small break from social relevance this week, considering I was actually able to get to a real in-theater movie this week. It’s not easy, when you consider most of my funds and time are going towards post-college education, but I was able to make an exception for James Wan’s latest horror flick,…
Put yourself in Southern Texas, in the shoes of an average Joe retired welder who stumbles across millions of dollars in a bag after a drug exchange goes wrong. Sounds like a pretty good place to be, right? Well, now take off those shoes and slip in a crazed psychopathic killer with an uncanny tracking…
From the ridiculous to the absurd, sometimes a film needs a comical premise to provide the sugar for the medicine of an important social message. Fans of Dan Coscarelli’s Bubba Ho-Tep might think that I’m taking the movie a bit too seriously as it is, and I certainly understand that. It’s one of the reasons…
One of the big tricks when finding an interesting film with social implications is to be able to differentiate between an agenda and an objective analysis. Of course, no one can claim to have absolutely no bias, but there is a big gap between the propaganda films like Reefer Madness and one like Trainspotting, which…
When it comes to propaganda, presentation and a strong message are always emphasized over the facts. Modest contemplation gives way to grandiose presentations, usually about the virtue of one route versus the evil of another. Reefer Madness is an incredibly important film, not because of its direct impact, but because of what it represents. Its…
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