Introduced by Matt Ode to John: The Joy of McTiernan This is both a nod, and an apology to John McTiernan. Not that he'll ever know (or care), but at film school, I was cagey and downright secretive about how much I loved his work. His movies weren’t deemed "avant-garde a clue" enough for me... Continue Reading →
Film chosen by listener Tom Bhaduri, introduced by Devlin Big thanks to Tom, who emailed this suggestion to us. Neither myself, Matt, nor Gali were big fans of this film in its late-90s video heyday, but we seemed to be the exceptions within our various friendship groups. Event Horizon was a true word-of-mouth, must-see film... Continue Reading →
Film chosen and introduced by Devlin If nothing else, this episode showed me just what a true cult object this film is. Despite my esteemed co-hosts being roughly the same age as me, and us having a decent amount of overlap in our formative experiences and tastes, I was pretty shocked when not one of... Continue Reading →
Introduced by Devlin After the CRIMINAL disregard for Halloween III: Season of the Witch shown by the callous and unimaginative general public in 1983, the Halloween name lay dormant for 5 years. I assure you I’m not remotely bitter about this absolute travesty.Now – as we saw in our first episode, 3 years was a... Continue Reading →
Introduced by Devlin Welcome back to HALLORE'EWIND! While our coverage this year is slightly less exhaustive (and exhausting for your humble contributors) than last year's, we've decided to roll out the heavy hitter - John Carpenter's season-defining, sub-genre-spawning slasher classic Halloween. In this first part, we discuss our history with this skeletal, primal film, and... Continue Reading →
Films chosen and introduced by Matt https://open.spotify.com/episode/0BQHhNgLJUcesUQTVzTGZF?si=4e79ca13f5944c97 They, whoever they are, will tell you the Bond you saw first - the Bond you were born into, is inevitably your favourite. When I was young (and my heart was an open book), Roger Moore was my James Bond, and if there’s any explanation for my side... Continue Reading →
Film chosen by Gali, introduced by Matt Forever lodged in my psyche as the first DVD I ever saw, Renny Harlin's Deep Blue Sea has been a solid rewatch throughout the years, but (sandwiches) when placed under the Rewind microscope, I found myself grappling with its fatal flaws. Perhaps it's old age, maybe my Jaws... Continue Reading →
Welcome to another Pulling Focus, where one of our co-hosts introduces a film that they feel deserves a bit more love. In this episode, Matt introduces Geoff Murphy's stylish 1990 Western sequel. One Letterboxd reviewer stated, “I hate westerns, and I love this movie!” Bizarrely, much like The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward... Continue Reading →
Welcome back to LV-RMP, our journey through the on-screen history of one of the greatest cinematic monsters ever conceived: the xenomorph. We’ve reached the conclusion of the original ‘Quadrilogy’ with director Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s gooey 1997 installment Alien Resurrection. 200 years after Ripley took her sacrificial dive into the smelter on Fury 161, scientists from United... Continue Reading →
Film chosen by Gali, introduced by Devlin I read a fantastic oral history of Donnie Darko which described the film as "everybody's first deep thought", which, while hyperbolic, does help describe the particular temporal space that I found this film in. Approaching 18, chafing at what I felt were the strictures of my small town,... Continue Reading →
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