I think I am with the majority of the audience in attendance at JCVD last night in saying that I was shocked. Not in your normal Midnight Madness sense, of course, where you may be shocked at the sheer amount of corn syrup being sprayed around or the number of fingers severed from someone's hand before you have to look away, but by an actual emotional performance. An emotional performance by Jean-Claude Van Damme, no less.

What we saw last…

Though they've never been my favourite horror antagonists, werewolves have gotten a bad shake over the past few years. Showing up as little more than an excuse to get overly buff Magic Mike meatheads to shed their shirts and howl in teen-horror fare like Twilight and True Blood, it's hard out there for a lycanthrope.
Breaking modern werewolf conventions at every turn, Late Phases is a somewhat fresh take on the moonlit creature-feature. Moving the setting to an unlikely one…

There’s a shot in Bong Joon-Ho’s Parasite where patriarch Ki-teak (Kang-ho Song), posing as a chauffeur, is driving the wealthy Mr. Park around on the highway while musing about how important it is for a driver to be good at the small stuff: smooth cornering and shifting gears. I don’t think it’s intentional on the writer/director’s part, but he’s praising himself here. Bong’s direction in Parasite is so precise, so smooth, that he shifts gears – comedy to thriller to…