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The parents head out to the countryside to “reconnect” (*bone) and Angela and Danielle are left home alone, Kevin McAllister style, in the hilarious penultimate episode of My So-Called Life. Have you got your tickets for our LIVE final episode…
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Destroy All Monsters: HBO’s WESTWORLD and the “Entertainment” of Sexual Violence
Trigger warning, sexual violence (and spoilers too, I guess, if you don’t want the first fifteen minutes of the first episode of Westworld spoiled for you): at the end of the Westworld pilot’s extended opening fake-out, a human man drags a…
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My So-Cast Life: Episode 17 – Betrayal
Name a more iconic duo. I’ll wait
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Destroy All Monsters: MOONLIGHT and Having a Flow Experience in the Cinema
I have a spot. A favourite spot, in Cinema 1 at the TIFF Bell Lightbox, which is not my favourite movie theatre, but is in the top five. This spot is up in the balcony, way over on the left…
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Destroy All Monsters: The Normalized Atrocities of Julia Ducournau’s RAW
Last Monday night’s screening in the Midnight Madness program at the Toronto International Film Festival gained a week’s worth of notoriety when The Hollywood Reporter announced that three people had fainted during the show and were taken away in an…
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Destroy All Monsters: In the Blind Land of Nostalgia, STRANGER THINGS Is King
As I’ve mentioned before, the best movie of the summer wasn’t a movie; it was an 8-part Netflix serial about kids hanging out in the ’80s, caught (unbeknownst to them) in the plot of a Steven Spielberg movie. In a…
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Destroy All Monsters: TIFF, Cinephiles, And The Entitled Fury Of Learning You’re Not The Audience Any More
I live in Toronto, and for most of my 20s and half of my 30s, the Toronto International Film Festival was one of the major milestones of my year – so much so that even today, the vast majority of…
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My So-Cast Life: Episode 16 – Resolutions
Very special announcement in today’s episode – we are doing a LIVE SHOW on October 22! Mark your calendars!
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Destroy All Monsters: We Need to Have a Long Look At Our WEINER
Elyse Sternberg and Josh Kriegman’s Weiner opens with a quote from Marshall McLuhan – “the name of a man is a numbing blow from which he never recovers” – which we might just as well paraphrase to: may the gods…
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Destroy All Monsters: Was This The Worst Summer We’ve Ever Had At The Movies?
The summer is dwindling to a close and film folks are taking stock of the season, both financially and creatively. It’s looking tepid on both fronts. We’ll lose some franchises that shouldn’t have come as far as they have; and…
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