Fantasia Review: Live (Raivu)
To those who know it, Noboru Iguchi’s name brings up a very particular image. In fact, when people with only a tangential knowledge ...
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Fantasia Review: WolfCop
Puns are a lot more interesting than most people give them credit for. While they’re exceedingly easy to come up with and throw ...
Production has begun on the Herschell Gordon Lewis co-directed Herschell Gordon Lewis’ Bloodmania
If you don’t know the name Herschell Gordon Lewis, then you have missed an extremely important part of film history. H. G. Lewis’ ...
New clip from Honeymoon is intriguing (and not spoiler-y)
Although I never reviewed it, Honeymoon was the best film I saw at the 2014 Tribeca Film Festival. It’s a cabin in the woods ...
Sam Raimi had to save The Last of Us adaptation from the game’s writer
The Last of Us was a fascinating movie with a not-very-good game attached to it. The narrative and cutscenes told a compelling story that ...
NYAFF Review: Silent Witness
Before the screening of Silent Witness, it was introduced as an example of what mainstream Chinese filmmaking is like in the modern era. ...
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NYAFF Review: Aberdeen
You never know what you’re going to get from a Pang Ho-Cheung film. In 2010, you got an ultraviolent slasher with Dream Home. ...
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Review: Why Don’t You Play in Hell?
Last year, Japan Cuts played Sion Sono’s Bad Film, a project filmed back in 1995 but not finished until 2012. In my non-review of ...
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NYAFF Review: Firestorm 3D
I wish I’d seen Firestorm 3D a week and a half earlier. In my review of The White Storm, I talked extensively about expectations. The film had ...
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NYAFF Review: Cold Eyes
Some of my favorite movies are ones that make me want to go and do something after the lights come up. Some films ...
NYAFF Review: As the Light Goes Out
There’s something uniquely fascinating about firefighters. When they arrive on a scene, they aren’t armed to the teeth and ready to take down ...
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NYAFF Review: The White Storm
Before the screening of As the Light Goes Out, NYAFF co-founder/the world’s greatest salesman Grady Hendrix made a pitch for people to stay ...