Articles by Laura Di Girolamo

Toronto After Dark 2017: Mayhem

Directed by Joe Lynch

PUBLISHED Oct 18, 2017

Mayhem is next in a long line of "virus containment" horror films that amp up the dramatic tension by placing characters in a quarantined z...

Happy Death Day

Directed by Christopher B. Landon

PUBLISHED Oct 14, 2017

Happy Death Day is a bit of Halloween fluff, a slasher twist on Groundhog Day in which party girl heroine Tree (Jessica Rothe) is brutally...

Toronto After Dark 2017: My Friend Dahmer

Directed by Marc Meyers

PUBLISHED Oct 12, 2017

My Friend Dahmer, Marc Meyers' film adaptation of the graphic novel by John "Derf" Backderf, recounts the experience of going to high schoo...

IT

Directed by Andy Muschietti

PUBLISHED Sep 7, 2017

For two hours and 15 minutes, IT is a nonstop cavalcade of terrifying monsters leaping out from the dark and into the lives of our protagon...

Sigur Rós Collaborator Alex Somers Discusses Soundtracking Ancient Film Reels in 'Dawson City: Frozen Time'

PUBLISHED Jul 21, 2017

Through sound, moving image and subtitles, Dawson City: Frozen Time tells a vast and far-reaching story of boom and bust, loss and memory....

Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets

Directed by Luc Besson

PUBLISHED Jul 20, 2017

There's a lot going on in Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets. Not all of it works, but when it does, it's bright, loud, thrilling...

The Book of Henry

Directed by Colin Trevorrow

PUBLISHED Jun 15, 2017

The Book is Henry is, tonally, a very weird film. What starts off as a syrupy-sweet family drama about a gifted young boy, his adorable lit...

Alien: Covenant

Directed by Ridley Scott

PUBLISHED May 12, 2017

Alien: Covenant smartly avoids the ponderously heavy philosophizing of the franchise's previous instalment, Prometheus. It knows enough abo...