Fantasia Review: The Weight
When The Weight started, I thought for a moment that I was watching the wrong movie. Even though the opening credits were in ...
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After the Credits: (Film) Festival Fatigue
When you watch a lot of movies in a short period of time, you get a little tired. When you’re covering a lot ...
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After the Credits: Just turn the damn thing off
While covering the Fantasia International Film Festival, I tried to watch as many movies as possible. I haven’t done that, in part because ...
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After the Credits: No one is afraid of the dark in 144p
If you noticed that two New Yorkers were covering Fantasia and wondered how that happened, let me pull back the curtain bit: Vimeo! ...
FantasiaFest: Free discussion w/ Bryan Singer tonight
If you’re up in Montreal for Fantasia, there’s a doozy of an event tonight that’s absolutely free. Bryan Singer will have 60-minute discussion ...
Fantasia Review: Horror Stories
I’m sure that Horror Stories is not actually a commentary on just how poor Korean teens are at telling scary stories. The massive ...
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Fantasia Review: Missionary
For some reason, I thought that Missionary would try to paint Mormons (and Mormon missionaries in particular) in a pleasant light. I knew ...
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Fantasia Review: Bushido Man
There’s something about low-budget action movies that’s full of real fighting spirit. With so many budget constraints, the films are usually infused with ...
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Fantasia Review: Ritual: A Psychomagic Story
Alejandro Jodorowsky is one of my favorite filmmakers. A sure cult figure, there’s an undeniable pull to El Topo, Santa Sangre, or even ...
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Fantasia Review: Thanatomorphose
The other week, Alec and I had a good discussion about extreme horror and disturbing cinema. Inevitably the best films that are disturbing, ...
Fantasia Review: The Tiger Mask
Even though I’m a grown man, there are a lot of things from my boyhood I still enjoy. Tokusatsu genre shows and movies, ...
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Fantasia Review: After School Midnighters
One of my favorite lines about kids movies comes from Terry Gilliam. When describing Time Bandits, Gilliam said he wanted to make a ...