The young woman recalls her experiences with a Chicago area motorcycle club in The Bikeriders. In 1973, Kathy Bauer (Jodie Comer) gives an interview to Danny Lyon (Mike Faist), about what happened to the Chicago-based Vandals Motorcycle Club, which Lyons previously followed as a young photographer. Kathy first encountered the club, founded by Johnny Davis…
Two criminals take shelter from a storm on a farm that holds its share of secrets in The Last Exit. Ruth (Joely Richardson) lives an isolated existence on a farm with her teenage daughter Maisy (Sadie Soverall) and her comatose Pa (Roger Ajogbe). During a raging storm, the family is greeted by the frantic knocking…
An escape attempt by a group of dangerous criminals aboard a cargo ship goes awry when they unleash something much more sinister in Project Wolf Hunting. A group of dangerous criminals, including tattooed gang leader Park Jong-doo (Seo In-guk) and unassuming murderer Lee Do-il (Jang Dong-yoon), is brought aboard a cargo ship extraditing them from…
A filmmaker seeks to reconnect with her estranged Northern Irish father in Trouble. Mariah Garnett travels to Vienna to meet her father David, who she hasn’t seen since she was two years old. Growing up in Belfast at the height of The Troubles, David was the subject of a 1971 BBC news story, solely for…
A police detective reluctantly teams with a crime boss, in order to catch a serial killer in The Gangster, The Cop, The Devil. Detective Jung Tae-seok (Kim Moo Yul) is a police detective with extreme methods, who are obsessed with apprehending local gangster Jang Dong-su (Don Lee). However, Jung and Jang have to put their…
A planned music festival turns into a complete disaster in Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened. Billy McFarland was a New York based entrepreneur, who co-founded the music booking app Fyre, along with rapper Ja Rule. As a way to promote the app, McFarland decides to host a music festival on an island in the Bahamas and creates a promotional…
Originating after the invention of the daguerreotype in the 19th century, mugshots were originally intended to keep track of criminals. However, aside from their use in law enforcement, they are considered by many to be a form of entertainment. In addition, these photographs can be used as a visual history of the time period they…
After playing the awards game with the Oscar-winning Slumdog Millionaire and Oscar-nominated 127 Hours, director Danny Boyle returns to dishing out his unique take on genre films. In the case of Trance, what starts off as a fairly ordinary heist film, turns into psychological thriller in which the main protagonist begins to doubt the reality…
I first became familiar with wind turbines about a decade ago when a turbine was installed within Exhibition Place in Toronto. Also, on the route to my family’s cottage, I often pass a big wind farm in Shelburne, Ontario, which has hundreds of these generators. Being a city-dweller, I often don’t think twice about wind…
