Category: Verdict: 5.0

I owe my love of horror to A Nightmare on Elm Street. Often credited for introducing the fantastic to slasher cinema, Wes Craven’s 1984…

Written in 1928, Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own deals with the relationship between women and literature: how women are perceived in the field, what it means

When critiquing a remake, people often make the mistake of setting it against the original, forgetting that the whole point of retelling a story…

Words are merely symbols for the notions they designate. Depending on our respective experiences and imagination, they can be interpreted in a number of ways, rendering our individual perspectives

Bryce: “It’s 1999. The next millennium belongs to the geek.” Meet Dr Flemming. He’s a college professor doubling as a CIA recruiter. Four years…

An American couple adopts a one-year-old baby from Canada. In the months that follow, they spend all their time trying to teach the baby to say

A while back, when it was announced that Fede Alvarez would reboot the Evil Dead franchise, my first thought was, “Don’t we already have…

A friend recently asked me about Gilmore Girls, which took me back to that fateful evening I discovered the iconic WB dramedy about a…

Even though Christmas day itself is typically used as a dumping ground for films on which studios have all but given up, we each…

The 1997 edition of the Nelson Canadian Dictionary defines irony as an “incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs”. For example