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Laura Di Girolamo

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Biography:

Laura Di Girolamo is a writer, film journalist, and the co-director of The Bloody Mary Film Festival, which spotlights female-identifying Canadian genre filmmakers. Her work, which includes reviews and musings on gender and genre, has appeared in Exclaim!, Rue Morgue, Grim Magazine, Daily Dead, Ghastly Grinning, Shudder, and various places around the web and in print. You can read more of her writing at www.lauradigital.com or follow her on Twitter at @laura_digi.

Reviews

Movies TV Shows
Consecration (2023) 42% 5/10 EDIT “For a film about evil nuns, Consecration weirdly lacks a sense of energy and horror.” – Exclaim! Feb 8, 2023 Full Review The Strings (2020) 100% EDIT “Aside from the score, The Strings also excels visually, featuring more than a few stunning wide shots...” – Exclaim! Feb 22, 2022 Full Review 12 Hour Shift (2020) 78% 6/10 EDIT “Suffers a little from an oddly-paced plot that feels too low-energy for the type of organ-dealing madness that actually occurs in the film's plot. But when it does pick up the pace and dial up the stakes, it's offbeat, zany and a lot of fun.” – Exclaim! Oct 21, 2020 Full Review Come True (2020) 84% 7/10 EDIT “Come True is such a strong, ambitious, existential indie horror for so much of its runtime that it's definitely worth a watch.” – Exclaim! Oct 21, 2020 Full Review Lucky (2020) 93% 8/10 EDIT “Lucky is a story rooted in female fears and told from a clever, unique angle with multiple great payoffs.” – Exclaim! Oct 21, 2020 Full Review Other Music (2019) 100% 7/10 EDIT “Other Music makes a case for the continued preservation of cherished public spaces that cultivate a sense of belonging amongst likeminded people - and will definitely make you look up a new band or two.” – Exclaim! Apr 28, 2020 Full Review Vivarium (2020) 73% 7/10 EDIT “It's at times baffling, but the surreal web Vivarium draws us into via exceptionally strong production design makes it easier to wave off narrative inconsistencies.” – Exclaim! Apr 28, 2020 Full Review Annabelle Comes Home (2019) 64% 6/10 EDIT “Annabelle Comes Home isn't much more than spooky funhouse nonsense, but that's all it needs to be - and for the third film in a spinoff franchise, that's pretty darn good.” – Exclaim! Feb 20, 2020 Full Review Midsommar (2019) 83% 8/10 EDIT “As symbolically rich as a Jodorowsky hippie acid trip with the pagan matriarchal horror of The Wicker Man, Midsommar feels like a nightmare that started off as a dream.” – Exclaim! Feb 20, 2020 Full Review Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (2019) 78% 6/10 EDIT “Format-wise, the film may have benefited from being a more straightforward anthology of shorts based on the stories, which were effective because they were so brutally concise.” – Exclaim! Feb 20, 2020 Full Review The Kitchen (2019) 24% 6/10 EDIT “Dramatic moments can and do work within dark comedies, and vice-versa - but by being both at once, The Kitchen ends up giving its audience cinematic whiplash.” – Exclaim! Feb 20, 2020 Full Review The Peanut Butter Falcon (2019) 95% 7 EDIT “It's elevated beyond cloying corniness by the naturalness of its performances, from Zack Gottsagen's unstoppable energy to Shia LaBeouf's quiet warmth and crushed-but-not-broken spirit.” – Exclaim! Feb 20, 2020 Full Review Love & Peace (2015) 100% EDIT “Love and Peace bounces from rock-n-roll cautionary tale to cheesy Muppets Christmas fable to rom-com to kaiju movie, never once landing on boring.” – Ghastly Grinning Feb 20, 2020 Full Review Ready or Not (2019) 89% 8/10 EDIT “A madcap cat-and-mouse game that's exhilaratingly fun...and offers a darkly funny and satirical take on just how ridiculous the rich really are.” – Exclaim! Feb 20, 2020 Full Review It: Chapter Two (2019) 62% 7/10 EDIT “As a cohesive unit, this older Losers Club lacks the naturalness and energy that led to the original seven kids being such engaging presences.” – Exclaim! Feb 20, 2020 Full Review Paradise Hills (2019) 68% 7/10 EDIT “Director Alice Waddington's feature debut, Paradise Hills, is the very definition of style over substance - but that's not necessarily a bad thing.” – Exclaim! Feb 20, 2020 Full Review Harpoon (2019) 97% 7/10 EDIT “At its core, Harpoon isn't aiming for deep statements about the human condition, opting instead to spin a fun, bloody yarn.” – Exclaim! Feb 20, 2020 Full Review The Wretched (2019) 74% 6/10 EDIT “The Wretched's style harkens back to late '90s / early 2000s horror that revels in moments of corny, deranged, gleefully freaky fun, like a Goosebumps episode for adults.” – Exclaim! Feb 20, 2020 Full Review She Never Died (2019) 100% 7/10 EDIT “Packages a story about trauma and strength within a fun, action-packed sequel that stands tall on its own, with an incredible star turn from lead actor Olunike Adeliyi.” – Exclaim! Feb 20, 2020 Full Review Come to Daddy (2019) 87% 6/10 EDIT “McHattie and Wood have great dramatic and comedic chemistry, but Come to Daddy never regains the first half-hour's sense of bizzaro tension.” – Exclaim! Feb 20, 2020 Full Review
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