Category: Verdict: 5.0

The piece is undeniably compelling and provides an unforgettable experience. Simply put, this is how it’s done.

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A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)

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…

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Posted in Book Review Verdict: 5.0

A Room of One’s Own (1929)

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

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A Tale of Two Sisters (2003)

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

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As I Lay Dying (1930)

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

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Chuck 1.07: Chuck versus the Alma Mater

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…

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Diamond Grill (1996)

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

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Evil Dead II: Dead by Dawn (1987)

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…

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Gilmore Girls (2000-2007)

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

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Gremlins (1984)

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

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Heart of Darkness (1902)

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

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