I’ve been thinking about this a while. These were two films I desperately wanted to talk about after seeing them at SXSW in March but I was having trouble figuring out how to approach them. On the one hand you have Scarlet Road, a sex positive documentary about a sex worker in Australia who deals primarily [...]

You know how you sit in bed at night trying to sleep and you start wondering what the perfect action film would be? Like it’s got to be like a porno only instead of people grinding against each other in poorly lit locales there would be really amazing action sequences using a variety of styles. [...]

Martin David is good at his job. He’s quiet, unassuming and as far as we know a ruthless individual when handed a task. He’s also a little lonely. In a plot that feels like something out of a Steven Seagal movie in the early 90s he’s a mercenary tasked with traveling to Tasmania to hunt [...]

Don Coscarelli came to SXSW nearly ten years ago to premiere a film he’d put a lot of love and effort into. The print being screened melted on opening night and the film got some not so nice reviews from film critics. But that film had a secret weapon, Bruce Campbell playing Elvis, and his [...]

Seeking Asian Female all started when Debbie Lum, an Asian American woman fed up with being approached by creepy white dudes, decided it was time to explore the phenomenon of “yellow fever,” where white people (usually men) have a preference for Asian people (usually women). Doesn’t matter their nationality–if they’re appear to be from East [...]

Buddy comedies have never really been mature. Especially male buddy comedies. Two guys do stupid things, a girl separates them, they fight, they make up. It’s a romance without all the sex and way more penis jokes. Over the last few years an onslaught of Judd Apatow approved comedies have taken the “bromance” to new [...]

Confession time internet. I am a well-educated white chick who has been really fortunate in life and continues to work as an artist (of the written word). I’m in my twenties. I am a member of this new fangled “Millennial” generation. Once I nearly lived in New York to write for a major internet blog [...]

The Cabin in the Woods is extraordinary. It chews apart the archetypes of the slasher film. Dissects and examines them and asks you to do the same. It peels back thirty or forty years of tradition to show you the roots, and then it puts it all together again for your entertainment. And it works [...]