Can we stop pretending that a film like Drew Barnhart's RONDO is an acceptable film for a man to make? It's not empowering to cast a woman in some sort of male fantasy with the only flip being ‘she wants it.’ From the start of the film to the end, Barnhart's 70's throwback shlock seems particularly devised to play to the baser instincts that genre Festival programmers love for … [Read more...]
Fantasia 2018 Review: PLAYING HARD Hardly Plays As A Doc
Fantasia 2018 Review: NEOMANILLA Goes Ground Floor On Duterte’s War on Drugs
I'm not going to suggest that I have any idea what it means to be a Filipino national at this point. Lead by a corrupt dictator, who also happens to be somehow one of Donald Trump's favorite people, the Philippines are currently in the midst of a War on Drugs the likes of which America has never seen. In Mikhail Red’s new film NEOMANILA, he takes us inside the unofficially … [Read more...]
Fantasia 2018 Review: THE MAN WHO KILLED HITLER AND THEN BIGFOOT Annihilates Its Target
Fantasia 2018 Review: MEGA TIME SQUAD’s mini time travel heist
Fantasia 2018 Review: CHAINED FOR LIFE Exposes The Carnival Of Life
Fantasia 2018 Review: LIFECHANGER Or The Ephemeral Nature Of Skin
Fantasia 2018: CRISIS JUNG Blows Minds, Takes Names, Stands Proudly On Plotlessness
I am more than willing to admit when something is clearly not for me. I will just say if you watch 3 minutes of CRISIS JUNG and loved it you will love the entire film. This is one of those intentionally crazy animated films done in the style of HEAVY METAL meets Anime. Set in a post-apocalyptic world, the Parisian Studio Bobbypills fills every second and every inch of the … [Read more...]
Fantasia 2018 Review: COLD SKIN Throws Man To Horde Of The Unknown
Fantastia 2018 Review: CAM Streams Suspense But Not Much Logic
Reviews from Cinepocalypse 2018
CINEPOCALYPSE 2018 Review: SATAN’S SLAVES, A Fresh Sip of Java
There is an "otherness" that comes from watching a film from a country I don’t know much about. Joko Anwar’s film SATAN’S SLAVES, a huge hit in its home country of Indonesia, may harken back to Argento’s films and the cool aesthetic of Rosemary’s Baby, but arriving steeped in fresh, strange superstitions, every moment feels fresh. Set in 1981, a family struggles to make ends … [Read more...]
