SIFF 2022 FILM PICKS: 3 TO SEE CLOSING WEEKEND
While Embracey has been busy attending SIFF's 2022 in-person screenings, I've been streaming as much as I can at home! Here are three films I…
SIFF Take: Koko-di Koko-da
I’m not sure how Johannes Nyholm did it, but he managed to make even super adorable hand drawn animation of bunnies look extremely TERRIFYING in…
SIFF Take: Good Manners
I’ll admit I wasn’t sure what I was in for with Good Manners. Rich society girl Ana is expecting, and hires Clara, a struggling nurse,…
SIFF Take: Blue My Mind
Mia’s a 15-year-old just like any other; she wants to hang with the popular girls, smoke cigarettes, make out with boys, drink, drop molly, and…
SIFF Review: Revenge
HolyCRAP. I was not expecting Revenge to live up to its amazing hype, but it is absolutely worthy of every single bit of praise its…
SIFF Take: Terror 5 {May 28, June 1 & June 7}
Holycrap, y’all. Argentina apparently has some messed up Urban Legends and I LOVE IT. Five of them come together in, well, Terror 5, a horror…
Recommended SIFF: The Tenth Man
You’ve got the middle-age doldrums. You plan to take your girlfriend to go visit your father in Buenos Aires. But your girlfriend bails. You show…
SIFF Take: Alone (Hon-ja)
[embed]https://youtu.be/87avWfyZ0tk[/embed] Oof, what a mess of a movie. The first part feels like it might be a worth-it kind of mess. It’s like a jumbly…
Recommended SIFF: The Lure
For the first 15 minutes of The Lure {Corki Dancingu}, I felt like I was watching a David Lynch movie on Acid. This New Wave musical nightmare romance…
SIFF Take: Other Girls
You know how sometimes you choose a SIFF film randomly because you like the trailer and you watch it and then you totally ugly cry…