The past year has been pretty good to cut rate petty criminals as far as cinema goes. Towards the end of 2014, Jake Gyllenhaal made waves with his charmingly creepy performance in the sociopathic yellow journalism flick Nightcrawler and before that even Wes Anderson got in on the action with the fleet of criminals decorating […]
Mind the Gap: Nagisa Oshima’s Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence
We like to consider ourselves pretty knowledgeable on all things pop culture here at Loser City, but even we have gaps in our expertise. Rather than hide our ignorance, though, we prefer to educate ourselves in public through Mind the Gap, a column devoted to filling the spaces in our pop culture awareness, be it […]
Lost in Space: Jupiter Ascending is a Bloated, Chaotic Mess That Forgets It Actually Has Characters
The kindest description that I can summon for Jupiter Ascending, the latest epic sci-fi project from the Wachowski siblings, famous for their groundbreaking classic The Matrix and its unfortunately less-than-groundbreaking sequels, is “immensely disappointing.” Starring Mila Kunis, Channing Tatum, Sean Bean and Eddie Redmayne, Jupiter Ascending tells the story of a young woman, Jupiter, an […]
Dueling Auteurs: Alejandro González Iñárritu x Chris Rock: Light Up Your Face
Because we’re geeks, we frequently find it’s easier to understand an artist’s work when comparing them to another artist, finding out the common or antithetical traits that bind them. Hence Dueling Auteurs, a column where we take two auteurs from any medium and compare and contrast them. This month, new Loser City citizen Lars Russell examines Alejandro […]
The Rivers Run Silent in Quahog: An Experiment
When I was a teenager, I loved Family Guy. I’m not proud of this. In fact, as soon as the technology becomes available, I will erase the memory. Family Guy now has a well-worn reputation as one of the most sexist, racist, and generally stupid things on television. As I look back on my television […]
Good Luck, Doc: Inherent Vice is a Stoner Noir with Sharp Vision
Before you read anything else about Inherent Vice, the latest project from lauded auteur filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson, I urge you to watch the trailer. Like, right now. The trailer’s uncanny comedic timing, musical exuberance, and oddball stoner-noir narration (courtesy of Joanna Newsom) come together with stunning clarity into what could be described as a sort of multi-sensory poem, […]
Nothing to Howl At: Late Phases Sets the Werewolf Genre Back at Least a Decade
I got into werewolf movies when they were going through a brief resurgence that didn’t really go anywhere. This is pretty much par for the course with werewolves. Lacking an iconic literary source like vampires have with Dracula and the reanimated have with Frankenstein, werewolves instead have a mishmash of origins going all the way back to The […]
This Must Be The Place: The Educative Power of Disappointment, or Why You Should Still See Interstellar
You’ll hear the term “overreaching” thrown around a lot when people discuss Christopher Nolan and his latest film, Interstellar. With a heavy hitting cast that includes Matthew McConaughey, Jessica Chastain, the increasingly prominent Anne Hathaway, and the criminally underused Casey Affleck, Nolan reimagines the sci-fi epic, complete with environmental disaster, wormhole travel, exotic exoplanetary landscapes, […]
Learning to Articulate: School Daze May Be Spike Lee’s Weirdest Film, but It’s Now More Relevant Than Ever
This week marks the release of Dear White People, a heavily hyped comedic commentary on race in America that was well-received on the festival circuit. Set in a fictional Ivy League school where two characters represent conflicting notions of blackness in America, complete with internal conflicts over the lightness of their skin, astute viewers may immediately […]
TADFF ’14 Day 2: Hellmouth
It’s been a pretty sparse start to Toronto After Dark due to a miserable poutine-induced case of indigestion that I was wholeheartedly convinced was lurking Ebola thanks to my layover in Dallas. However on day two of the fest, I managed to squeeze in a double header starting with Pontypool & The Septic Man writer […]
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