Check out the week's newest film releases and find out what our staff can't wait to see (or, in some cases, would choose to see if we absolutely had to). Click the posters for more info about each film. Matt is interested in... "It's almost October, so it must be Hell Fest. I'm not a huge horror fan, but I'm taking a class on horror, I love Halloween (the holiday), and I'll probably just give in and see this to get in the spirit of the season" - Matt Shelby is interested in..

Title: Don’t Swallow My Heart, Alligator Girl! (2017) Genre: Drama Stars: Cauã Reymond, Mario Verón, Leopoldo Pacheco, Adeli Benitez Bias: I don’t fully understand the reason or historical context behind the beef between Brazilians and Paraguayans. Grade: D In a Nutshell: A Brazilian boy named Joca falls hard for a Paraguayan girl named Basano. Their forbidden one-sided romance plays out surrounded by a war-torn region of the Apa river, which straddles the borders of Paraguay

When I met my wife in 2006, she was working on her Ph.D in film studies at USC. Pretty cool. Then I found out that the subject of her dissertation was zombies. Even cooler. Over the course of our relationship I have been a willing guinea pig, tagging along to see and absorb every available product in the world of zombie-inspired entertainment and pop culture. You name it, I’ve seen it. From your standard American zombie fare to zombie films from Australia, Japan, Russia, Kore

Welcome to Sci-Fi Saturday, a column that is devoted to all things science fiction: film, television, comics, novels, video games, and local Metro Detroit events. If there is a topic you'd like to see covered in an upcoming column, email us at kinoclub313wsu@gmail.com! This week I watched 4 episodes of Star Trek: The Original Series season 1, putting me at a little over halfway through the season overall. Since I've been writing these columns bi-weekly, I really *should* have

Check out the week's newest film releases and find out what our staff can't wait to see (or, in some cases, would choose to see if we absolutely had to). Click the posters for more info about each film. Matt is interested in... "I'm really intrigued by The Sisters Brothers. I've been on a mini-Joaquin Phoenix kick after seeing You Were Never Really Here this summer, and I've seen a couple of trailers for this film. Tonally, it seems all over the place - jokey one minute, viol

Title: Rouge (1988) Genre: Fantasy, Romance Director: Stanley Kwan Stars: Leslie Cheung, Emily Chu, Alex Man, and Anita Mui Grade: B+ In a Nutshell: One night in 1934, rich playboy Chan Chen-Pang (Leslie Cheung) pays a visit to an up-scale Hong Kong brothel, where his friends are waiting for him. Chen-Pang shows up late, just as the group is eating and listening to a song performed by one of the prostitutes, Fleur (Anita Mui). Chen-Pang falls in love at first sight, and after

For the last few months I have attempted to open your eyes to films I believe that you may have missed or that I think deserve a second look. Entertaining films, that is. This week I’d to switch gears. Sometimes a film is so God awfully bad it has to be seen to be believed. Yes, there are classically bad films that have camp value like Manos: The Hands of Fate, Plan 9 From Outer Space or Barbarella. Then there are truly “trainwreck” films. 1980’s Cruising definitely qualifies

Inspired by last week's rediscovery of the 1985 classic (yes, classic) Gotcha!, which completely held up, I wanted to devote this Weekend Watchlist to a highly-specific subgenre of films - movies I watched constantly on HBO as a kid. Some of them are amazing, some...not, but all of them offer a glimpse into how I became the person I am today. All of these films are available through a pretty wide range of streaming services (Tubi?) so instead of listing them all, I'll take th

This is a bit of an untraditional review. Since a bundle of games I’m interested in are too small to be reviewed individually, I’ll be reviewing 4 mobile games of the same genre. The games I’ll be reviewing here are Fate/Grand Order, Fire Emblem Heroes, Food Fantasy, and Darkness Rises. Additionally, this serves as a sort of a tie in for our September meeting of Video Game Scholarly Interest Group where we’ll be talking about currency in games, including these games (and a co

Who hasn’t dreamed of making their own movie? Walking on a busy film set, rubbing elbows with Hollywood royalty, inspiring multitudes of artists and crafts people to follow your vision and making movie magic. Based on my own limited experience it’s often more chaotic than a day at Comic Con. But such is the cherished dream of many and the focus of 2004’s The Last Shot. Supposedly based on a true story, it involves an FBI plan of making a real movie as a part of a mob sting op