Toni's Film Club Season 5, Episode 11: This Film Terrified Me... so I called the director

Why This Movie Feels... a bit too real

Das Boot (1981) is one of the most obsessively realistic war films ever made. It doesn’t chase spectacle or heroism - it traps you inside a German U-boat and forces you to live there. The film feels less like a blockbuster and more like an anxiety-inducing documentary.

15 min

The 1960s "Documentary" We Still Can’t Explain

Symbiopsychotaxiplasm (1968) is one of the strangest, smartest, and most quietly groundbreaking films ever made. It doesn’t behave like a documentary or a narrative film - it turns the filmmaking process itself into the story.

11 min

What does a Film Producer... actually do?

"Sinners" is one of those rare films that somehow gets everything right - iIt’s completely original, audiences showed up for it, and critics embraced it in a big way, making it the most nominated film in Oscar history with 16 nominations.

16 min

The Most Dangerous Production in Film History

"Roar" (1981) is one of the most dangerous, chaotic, and astonishingly ambitious films ever made. It is anything but a typical Hollywood production and turns living with a bunch of untrained lions, tigers, and other big cats into the story itself.

15 min

The Book vs. The Movie

Project Hail Mary is one of the only books I’ve ever finished. And now, with Ryan Gosling in it, has become one of the most anticipated sci-fi films in recent years.

10 min

This $27,000 Horror Film Is a Creative Masterpiece

One Cut of the Dead (2017) is one of the most deceptively brilliant horror comedies I've ever seen. It looks like a clunky, low-budget zombie movie with awkward acting, weird pacing, and countless amateur-ish mistakes - until you realize that every single one of them is the point.

10 min

The Dark Psychology in A24’s “The Drama”

"The Drama" is one of those movies that forces you to reflect and confront yourself. The new A24 film starring Zendaya and Robert Pattinson is exactly the kind of tense, stylish moral mind-game I’ve been missing lately.

The Film So Bad... the director apologized

Exploring one of the most famously disliked movies ever made, to the point of the director publicly apologizing. But is there more to the story?

Why Physical Media is Making a Comeback

Is physical media actually better than subscribing to a bunch of streaming platforms? Let's compare the pros and cons for each and find out.

9 min

Honest Thoughts - Backrooms

My honest thoughts on "Backrooms" - the A24 feature film directed by Kane Parsons who went viral for his found footage series on YouTube and landed a major studio deal at just 20 years old.