Category: Theatrical Review

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Attachment: Doublets, by Rudie Obias

Religion as horror is nothing new in cinema. There are several successful movies in the sub-genre, such as Rosemary’s Baby, The Conjuring, Midsommar, and others come to mind. Most of these movies are rooted in Christianity, while Jewish horror movies...

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2022 / david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review / tiff / tiff 2022

TIFF 2022: Daliland, by David Bax

Mary Harron’s Daliland opens with the classic footage of famed surrealist painter Salvador Dali appearing on a 1952 episode of the game show What’s My Line?, befuddling contestants by answering “yes” to every single question asked about him. It’s an...

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2022 / david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review / tiff / tiff 2022

TIFF 2022: Sick, by David Bax

We’ve had a lot of “Covid movies” already, even though the pandemic is still an ongoing concern and far from being in our rearview. The movies that have attempted to address it head-on have mostly ranged from middling (the anthology...