20th Anniversary

“Watcha reading about?” “Amputation”“For work?”“No. Just for fun” May was a film that was a teenage favourite of mine. As a strange kid I could relate to May’s social awkwardness. Plus I used to show it to goth girls to try…

“I had a lot riding on that match, you know. Financially and personally.” It's been 20 years since Wes Anderson introduced the world to a family in desperate need of a group hug. Anderson’s filmography normally reads like a…

“Why do you wear that stupid bunny suit?” “Why are you wearing that stupid man suit?” Donnie Darko is the type of film that reminds me of school. Not simply due to the setting, or because of the man in the giant bunny suit (long story),…

I guess this is the time where we decide if Brian Hegeland’s A Knight’s Tale still holds up after twenty years. Well surprise, chumps and chumpettes: it never stopped holding up. It is the quiet cousin of the…

Ogres have layers. So does this movie. Shrek, that magical, weird, upside-down fairytale experience by Dreamworks turns 20 this year. What is it about the title green swamp dweller that's so appealing and led to him spawning three sequels?…

I only watched Bring It On for the first time earlier this year after watching some compelling video criticism arguing that the film was the first time that the trope of the cheerleader is built upon in any meaningful way in popular…

“No one ever gets used to nightmares,” Mark Z. Danielewski wrote in his monstrous, unforgettable romantic horror novel House of Leaves. That’s what The Exorcist and its direct sequel The Exorcist III - the two best films of this long…

"This is your life and it’s ending one minute at a time" - Tyler Durden One of the most misunderstood movies of the last 20 years is undoubtedly David Fincher's modern cult classic Fight Club. Yes, it's easy to linger on the violence, an…

The ludicrous, radiation-tinged popular sci-fi/horror movies of the 1950s are all but dead. They’ve been dead quite a while, 20 years in fact, and they died with a movie no one would have suspected. Brad Bird’s The Iron Giant came out in…

My first encounter with Michael Patrick Jann's Drop Dead Gorgeous was probably a couple of years after its release, on one of its televised broadcasts. I inadvertently came across the film at the very moment Tammy Curry (Brooke Elise…