Articles by Paul Dika
'The Card Counter' Deals a Full House of Great Performances
Directed by Paul Schrader
PUBLISHED Sep 9, 2021
Paul Schrader loves his isolated and troubled leading men. The writer-director has had a successful career creating characters shrouded in...
Turnstile's 'GLOW ON' Makes Hardcore Genre-Fluid
PUBLISHED Aug 26, 2021
Prior to the start of the pandemic, Turnstile were a band on the rise, playing to larger rooms as they toured in support of their 2018 albu...
M. Night Shyamalan's Twists Are Getting 'Old'
Directed by M. Night Shyamalan
PUBLISHED Jul 23, 2021
M. Night Shyamalan has had quite the rollercoaster of a career, with success coming at an early age, with films like The Sixth Sense, Signs...
'No Sudden Move' Is Exciting Enough to Forgive Its Flaws
Directed by Steven Soderbergh
PUBLISHED Jul 5, 2021
Has there been busier director than Steven Soderbergh over the last 20 years? In that time, he has directed and completed a feature film al...
'Holler' Is a Rare Trump-Era Film with Subtlety
Directed by Nicole Reigel
PUBLISHED Jun 10, 2021
There have been a flood of films from the past few years — the Borat sequel, The Post, The Comey Rule — which all lack any sort of subtlety...
'Spiral' Might Be the Worst 'Saw' We Ever Saw
Directed by Darren Lynn Bousman
PUBLISHED May 14, 2021
When Saw came out seventeen years ago, it was such a wild success that there were seven (!) Saw movies released between 2005 and 2017. With...
Fucked Up's Narrative Ambitions Are Finally Fully Realized on 'Year of the Horse'
PUBLISHED May 10, 2021
During their 20-plus years as a band, Fucked Up have never shied away from taking chances and stepping outside of whatever box critics and...
'The Marijuana Conspiracy' Gets Bogged Down in Stoner Clichés
Directed by Craig Pryce
PUBLISHED Apr 20, 2021
Since its legalization in 2018, cannabis has slowly become more welcomed and tolerated by Canadians as a recreational drug. Though the drug...