Category Archives: Rewatch

Prisoners (2013)

Posted on October 7, 2017 by Ross Birks

I remember seeing Prisoners the week of its release in 2013 and at a certain point I asked myself “Did Roger Deakins shoot this or something?” Lo and behold, as his name appeared in the credits at the end I … Continue reading →

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Enemy (2013)

Posted on October 3, 2017 by Ross Birks

This movie looks like it has kidney failure but damn does that piss-yellow and sharpie-black colour scheme work for me. Enemy is one of the more effective exercises in nightmare storytelling from recent years that is at its best when … Continue reading →

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mother! (2017) – Take 2

Posted on September 17, 2017 by Ross Birks

The first and last line of mother! is “Baby?” Darren Aronofsky is a sick son of a bitch. For real though, I have not stopped thinking about this movie since seeing it last Friday, so I had to go back for round two. A … Continue reading →

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Psycho II (1983)

Posted on July 31, 2017 by Ross Birks

Making sequels to movies over twenty years old might be pretty commonplace today but back in the early 1980’s, when Universal decided to produce a follow up to Alfred Hitchcock’s seminal Psycho, it was practically unheard of. Originally conceived as … Continue reading →

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Strange Days (1995)

Posted on July 21, 2017 by Ross Birks

“Okay. Ready? Boot it.” And so begins Kathryn Bigelow’s Strange Days, which proceeds in the form of a dizzying and glitchy POV shot that plunges you head-first into a high-wire robbery sequence before dropping you off the top of a building. … Continue reading →

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Spectre (2015)

Posted on July 13, 2017 by Ross Birks

As much as I loved Skyfall the film’s insistence on slowly undoing all of Casino Royale‘s franchise retooling – bringing Q and Moneypenny back into the game as well as a curmudgeon old white guy into the M role and re-injecting more of … Continue reading →

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Men in Black (1997)

Posted on July 8, 2017 by Ross Birks

Caught this on TV and ended up sitting through the whole thing, and I never watch movies on TV. I thought I saw this enough times in my childhood to last a lifetime but evidently not. From script to casting, this is … Continue reading →

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Django Unchained (2012)

Posted on July 7, 2017 by Ross Birks

That wobbly and kinda unnecessary last (fifth?) act keeps this from being a total slam-dunk for me. Kerry Washington’s Broomhilda is disappointingly under-developed too, making this the only QT movie with a relatively lifeless and undistinguished female lead (Reservoir Dogs excluded … Continue reading →

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Psycho (1960)

Posted on June 30, 2017 by Ross Birks

Despite that clunky exposition dump at the end and lots of driving shots with voice-over (this could easily be hacked down to a lean, mean 90 mins), Psycho is still the grandaddy. It’s all in the little things too, like when the … Continue reading →

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Room (2015)

Posted on June 30, 2017 by Ross Birks

I’m dumb. In my original review I sort of bemoaned that the entire film didn’t take place solely in the titular room and that everything following their escape was kinda forgettable. On the contrary, whenever I’ve thought of Room in the year … Continue reading →

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