Author Archives: Really Awful Movies

Let Me Make You a Martyr

There’s a sense of fatalism that permeates every frame of Cory Asraf and John Swab’s neo-noir, Let Me Make You a Martyr. At it’s most basic, it’s a unshakable feeling that not many characters in the film will live to find that elusive happy ending they so desperately seek. (But do they deserve it? With the exception ofContinue reading “Let Me Make You a Martyr”

Fantasia International Film Festival 2016

Sitting on a VIA Rail train about to leave the beautiful city of Montreal, Quebec, I can’t seem to shake a touch of melancholy. Guess it’s because it’s not just Montreal I’m saying goodbye to. (For now that is; I’ll be back.) It’s also Fantasia Fest. (For now that is; I will certainly be back nextContinue reading “Fantasia International Film Festival 2016”