The Important Cinema Club Episode #23 - What the hell is Canadian Cinema? Listen to more episodes of The Important Cinema Club>> Justin and Will tackle the eternal question through the work of Canada's golden boy director/writer/actor/country singer Paul Gross....
by Chloe Brett Re-visiting William A. Levey’s Blackenstein was not a stop on my journey that I was looking forward to. When I first saw it back in the day I found it pretty lacklustre, monotonous, and not to get to grandiose with my language, but just straight up...
By: Ian Butt Recently I caught a double-bill of Jackie Kong features presented by The Muff Society, a group which screens movies championing women in film. The second film, Blood Diner, featured a scene early on that involved a cheerleading squad performing topless...
by Mark Hanson Cinematic artist and all-around Renaissance man Vincent Gallo once said, “Europeans are animals” and “I don’t relate to those monkeys”. I’m pretty sure this had a lot to do with how The Brown Bunny was received at the Cannes Film Festival, yet it was...
The Important Cinema Club Episode #22 - The Baadesssst of the Baadasssses, Melvin Van Peebles Listen to more episodes of The Important Cinema Club>> Justin and Will talk writer/director/actor/composer/renaissance man Melvin Van Peebles and watch his incendiary...
by Keenan Tamblyn First let me start off by saying William Brent Bell is a terrible filmmaker, he's bad, his movies are bad, I've seen all of them and laughed every single one off screen. Now that being said it's also worth noting that he's the director behind one of...
The Important Cinema Club Episode #21 - It's Orson Welles Like You've Never Seen Him Before Listen to more episodes of The Important Cinema Club>> It's a super-sized episode that's 100% PURE WELLES. SPOILERS! There are one or two mentions of Rosebud. If you...
The Important Cinema Club Episode #19 - Blue Collar John Carpenter Listen to more episodes of The Important Cinema Club >> Will and Justin team up with Mallory Andrews (of cléo: a journal of film and feminism) to talk John Carpenter - Halloween, They Live and...
A deep dive into the filmography of one of the most energetic (and popular) filmmakers of all time leads the club watch the nihilistic anger scream Dangerous Encounters of the First Kind (1980) and the maximum fun blast that is Peking Opera Blues (1986) Justin...
By Chloë Brett I’m going to be honest, I watched this movie over two weeks ago and then promptly forgot just about everything that happened in it, which meant that I had the ever fun task of re-watching it! That probably doesn't do much in the way of saying that this...
