Articles by Laura Di Girolamo

Toronto After Dark Review: 'Paradise Hills' Is Visually Stunning and That's Nearly Enough

Directed by Alice Waddington

PUBLISHED Oct 22, 2019

Director Alice Waddington's feature debut, Paradise Hills, is the very definition of style over substance — but that's not necessarily a ba...

Toronto After Dark Review: 'The Odd Family: Zombie On Sale' Is an Absurd but Fresh Zombie Take

Directed by Lee Min-jae

PUBLISHED Oct 21, 2019

The Odd Family: Zombie On Sale is the type of film that's a mainstay at the Toronto After Dark Film Fest: a gleefully silly, constantly mov...

'Harpoon' Is an Amusing Three-Jerks-on-a-Boat Horror

Directed by Rob Grant

PUBLISHED Oct 7, 2019

A bottle movie is hard to pull off, and even more so when you're imbuing that tense energy with gleefully gory black comedy. But Harpoon ma...

'IT Chapter Two' Director Andy Muschietti and Producer Barbara Muschietti Share How Stephen King's Epic Became Two Films

PUBLISHED Sep 5, 2019

Stephen King's It is an epic behemoth of a book. Both the 1990 It miniseries and the present film iteration split their adaptation into two...

'IT Chapter Two' Is an Appropriate Conclusion but Lacks Spark

Directed by Andy Muschietti

PUBLISHED Sep 4, 2019

Stephen King's IT is a colossal book, in more ways than one. Over the course of a thousand pages, King tracks the nature of evil, violence,...

'The Peanut Butter Falcon' Is a Familiar Road Adventure With a Fresh Perspective

Directed by Michael Schwartz and Tyler Nilson

PUBLISHED Aug 21, 2019

It would have been easy for The Peanut Butter Falcon to fall prey to all the most egregious inspirational indie film stereotypes, and end u...

'Ready or Not' Is a Fun Horror About Games the Stupidly Rich Play

Directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett

PUBLISHED Aug 21, 2019

It's been over 30 years, and no film has been able to capture the same frantic energy and dark, campy humour as the original Clue, a box of...

'The Kitchen' Is a Not-Quite-Satisfying Revenge Fantasy

Directed by Andrea Berloff

PUBLISHED Aug 9, 2019

The Kitchen is not a subtle film; it's messy, unfocused, and occasionally paints characters in broad caricature. But elevated by fantastic...