The ninth annual Aesthetica Film Festival was packed with wonderful films made by independent artists and directors, who are unfettered by the shackles of corporate interests (ignoring the advertising category,

Knives Out is a traditional murder mystery in many ways. The premise is classic: an eccentric old millionaire found dead in an apparent suicide, a large cast of warring family

The Shining is a classic. It has everything a scary horror film should have: great acting, creepy villains, and slow-building tension. For the first time viewer, there is a genuine

Ah, Shrek; the Ready Salted crisps of a DVD collection. This is in the sense that both products are naively disregarded as ‘boring’ when one is an uncultured child; it