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Fantastic Fest Review: <i>4x4</i>

Fantastic Fest Review: 4x4

Sep 27th, 2019 Eric D. Snider
A fully loaded SUV, parked on a Buenos Aires street, is the setting for 4x4, a Saw-inspired take on income inequality from Argentine director Mariano Cohn. A petty thief named Ciro (Peter Lanzani) breaks into the car to steal the stereo, only to find himself trapped when the owner (Dady Brieva) --...
REVIEW: <i>The Death of Dick Long</i>

REVIEW: The Death of Dick Long

Sep 26th, 2019 Eric D. Snider
Set in Alabama and focused on two idiots who panic after making a mistake, The Death of Dick Long laughs at its characters' follies but ultimately shows the kind of affection for them and their habitat that can only come from someone who grew up there. Director Daniel Scheinert (who co-made Swiss...
Fantastic Fest Review: <i>Dolemite Is My Name</i>

Fantastic Fest Review: Dolemite Is My Name

Sep 25th, 2019 Scott Weinberg
Hollywood biopics generally focus on the biggest and most renowned figures in the realms of entertainment. Everyone knows and loves Ray Charles, Elton John, and Tina Turner, so it only makes sense to tell their personal stories in a biography-style movie. But what of the artists who aren't...
REVIEW: <i>The Golden Glove</i>

REVIEW: The Golden Glove

Sep 25th, 2019 Eric D. Snider
The Golden Glove is the remarkably unpleasant true story of a German serial killer in the 1970s, told with matter-of-fact, steely-eyed brutality by Turkish-German filmmaker Fatih Akin. Jonas Dassler is uglied up real good to play Fritz Honda, a hunched, oily psycho with a wispy mustache lingering...
Fantastic Fest Review: <i>Color out of Space</i>

Fantastic Fest Review: Color out of Space

Sep 24th, 2019 Scott Weinberg
(Screened at Fantastic Fest; release TBA.) We all have our own personal biases when it comes to movies. For example, I am instantly curious to see any H.P. Lovecraft adaptation -- partially because lots of his short stories and damn good but mostly because the man's work is notoriously difficult...
Fantastic Fest Review: <i>Guns Akimbo</i>

Fantastic Fest Review: Guns Akimbo

Sep 22nd, 2019 Scott Weinberg
(Screened at Fantastic Fest; theatrical release TBA.) One simply cannot deny that the former Harry Potter, aka Mr. Daniel Radcliffe, has done a fine job of choosing unique, offbeat, and even downright weird scripts in recent years. Between Horns, Kill Your Darlings, and Swiss Army Man, it's...
TIFF Report: Satire! Get It While It's Hot!

TIFF Report: Satire! Get It While It's Hot!

Sep 18th, 2019 Audrey Fox
Given the current sociopolitical climate and general state of the world, satire seems like a tall order. How can you comically exaggerate people and situations when everything that happens already feels like it’s already been exaggerated for comedic effect? But for that very reason, satire can...
Fantastic Fest Review: <i>Synchronic</i>

Fantastic Fest Review: Synchronic

Sep 16th, 2019 Eric D. Snider
Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead have been floating around the edges of indie sci-fi/horror for the last few years, writing and directing thoughtful under-the-radar films like Spring (2015) and The Endless (2018) that were acclaimed in certain circles but didn't get much mainstream attention. The...
REVIEW: <i>One Cut of the Dead</i>

REVIEW: One Cut of the Dead

Sep 13th, 2019 Eric D. Snider
You can tell pretty quickly that something is up with One Cut of the Dead. It starts in an old warehouse serving as the set of an amateurish, low-budget zombie movie, where the director, Higurashi (Takayuki Hamatsu), is having trouble getting convincing performances from his not-very-good actors....
TIFF Report: Keeping the Faith

TIFF Report: Keeping the Faith

Sep 12th, 2019 Marshall Shaffer
The 2019 Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) felt unusually heavy with films concerning religion and its followers. Of the more than 30 films I screened, nearly a third grappled with what it means to be a person of faith or live in a world where religious institutions structure daily life....
Learning to Love the Wonderful, Elitist Telluride Film Festival

Learning to Love the Wonderful, Elitist Telluride Film Festival

Sep 9th, 2019 Eric D. Snider
I have a complicated relationship with the Telluride Film Festival. It's a world-class fest, usually playing some of the year's best movies, many of them world premieres introduced in person by their directors and stars, who are always humble and gracious. The venues, despite being commandeered...
Fantasia 2019 Report: Let the Punishment Fit the Crime

Fantasia 2019 Report: Let the Punishment Fit the Crime

Jul 31st, 2019 Marshall Shaffer
“A society should be judged not by how it treats its outstanding citizens,” wrote Dostoyevsky, “but by how it treats its criminals.” Genre cinema from across the globe often provides such insight through penalizing transgression rather than illuminating virtue. Across a number of titles at...
Fantasia 2019 Report: At the Mercy of the Programmers

Fantasia 2019 Report: At the Mercy of the Programmers

Jul 23rd, 2019 Marshall Shaffer
For someone as obsessively Type A as me, the lead-up to a film festival as compact and curated as Fantasia can prove quite nerve-wracking. As an event that unfolds primarily in two screening rooms conveniently located across the street from each other, the choices of films to see are limited to...
What To Expect at Fantasia Festival 2019

What To Expect at Fantasia Festival 2019

Jul 11th, 2019 Marshall Shaffer
Is there such a thing as too much genre cinema? If so, then it would likely occur at Montreal’s Fantasia Festival, an over-three week long celebration of the bonkers and brilliant excesses taking place at the exciting edges of filmmaking. The fest’s 23rd edition begins July 11 with a slate of...
Tribeca Report: Women Take Control

Tribeca Report: Women Take Control

May 6th, 2019 Bill Bria
As is increasingly the case in modern cinema, groups underrepresented onscreen are having their stories told more frequently and more honestly than before. Women in particular were very well represented both in front of and behind the camera at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival. As a result,...
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