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REVIEW: <i>First Man</i> Takes a Long Time to Get to the Moon, But It's Worth It(?)

REVIEW: First Man Takes a Long Time to Get to the Moon, But It's Worth It(?)

Oct 12th, 2018 Eric D. Snider
Ryan Gosling is a handsome man, but it's his profile that's most aesthetically pleasing. We saw a lot of it in Drive, where he sat behind the wheel of a car and was was often photographed from the passenger seat, and we see it again in First Man, where he's a test pilot in a cockpit. The pilot,...
Report from Beyond Fest 2018

Report from Beyond Fest 2018

Oct 11th, 2018 Zach Vasquez
Los Angeles’s biggest genre festival, Beyond Fest, just wrapped its sixth and most ambitious program. Fifty films played at Hollywood’s historic Egyptian Theater, with ancillary showings in Downtown L.A. and Santa Monica, with a range of cinematic madness on display — from the West Coast...
REVIEW: Supernatural Horror <i>Terrified</i>

REVIEW: Supernatural Horror Terrified

Oct 11th, 2018 Eric D. Snider
(Streaming on Shudder.) Buenos Aires is rife with supernatural activity in Demian Rugna's Terrified (Aterrados), much of it centralized to a particular street (perhaps because of zoning?). The manifestations are frequently chilling, as when a man who hears a recurring "thump" sound investigates...
REVIEW: <i>Tales from the Hood 2</i>: Like If Spike Lee Made <i>Creepshow</i> (Fantasia Festival)

REVIEW: Tales from the Hood 2: Like If Spike Lee Made Creepshow (Fantasia Festival)

Oct 2nd, 2018 Eric D. Snider
(Screened at the 2018 Fantasia Festival; now available on VOD and Blu-ray.) I never saw Tales from the Hood, but if Tales from the Hood 2 is any indication, I must go back and watch it posthaste -- though I wonder if the racial climate of 1995 could have inspired as much righteous anger and...
A Report from Fantastic Fest 2.0

A Report from Fantastic Fest 2.0

Sep 29th, 2018 Eric D. Snider
After last year's bumpy edition of Fantastic Fest, roiled by revelations that its founder had continued working with employees and associates who'd been credibly accused of sexual assault, this year's raucous genre celebration felt almost normal — well, "normal" for an event that includes a...
Fantastic Fest Review: Violent Drama <i>Hold the Dark</i>

Fantastic Fest Review: Violent Drama Hold the Dark

Sep 28th, 2018 Eric D. Snider
(Screened at Fantastic Fest; now streaming on Netflix) Continuing the Wind River cycle of movies about outsiders going to cold, sad Indian reservations to investigate tragedies, here's Hold the Dark, another brutally chilling drama from Green Room director Jeremy Saulnier. Adapted by...
REVIEW: Robert Redford Shines As One of the Title Characters in <i>The Old Man & the Gun</i>

REVIEW: Robert Redford Shines As One of the Title Characters in The Old Man & the Gun

Sep 28th, 2018 Eric D. Snider
David Lowery's last movie, A Ghost Story, was about a ghost but wasn't a horror film. His new one, The Old Man & the Gun, is about a career bank robber but isn't a heist thriller. Lowery keeps you on your toes if you're a judge-a-movie-by-its-title kind of person, and he upends expectations...
Fantastic Fest Review: Unclassifiable Thing <i>Strike, Dear Mistress, and Cure His Heart</i>

Fantastic Fest Review: Unclassifiable Thing Strike, Dear Mistress, and Cure His Heart

Sep 26th, 2018 Eric D. Snider
(Screened at Fantastic Fest; U.S. release TBA) We have Velvet Underground to thank for the title Strike, Dear Mistress, and Cure His Heart, but the movie of that name is from one Mickey Reece, an independent Oklahoma auteur who has made two dozen movies in the last 10 years that have been seen...
Fantastic Fest Review: French Drama <i>Savage</i>

Fantastic Fest Review: French Drama Savage

Sep 26th, 2018 Eric D. Snider
(Screened at Fantastic Fest; U.S. release TBA; opens in France in January) Coming-of-age metaphors collide messily in Savage (Les Fauves), a weak-willed French drama by Vincent Mariette in which teenage Laura (Lily-Rose Depp), spending the summer with cousins at a campground, is intrigued by...
Fantastic Fest Review: Absurdist Comedy <i>Keep an Eye Out</i>

Fantastic Fest Review: Absurdist Comedy Keep an Eye Out

Sep 24th, 2018 Eric D. Snider
(On VOD.) Keep an Eye Out is the latest absurdist lark from Quentin Dupieux, whose Rubber -- about a series of murders committed by a sentient automobile tire -- is one of my favorite absurdist larks of the current century. Called Au Poste! in its native France, Keep an Eye Out takes place...
TIFF Report: Political, Not Polemical

TIFF Report: Political, Not Polemical

Sep 17th, 2018 Marshall Shaffer
I skipped out on the big political event of the Toronto International Film Festival, the premiere of Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 11/9, a screening at which the director brought out Flint residents and Parkland survivors to drive home the immediacy of the documentary. Moore’s films are designed...
TIFF Report: The Addiction Obsession

TIFF Report: The Addiction Obsession

Sep 12th, 2018 Marshall Shaffer
“Addiction is our new default,” quips Juliette Binoche’s Selena in Non-Fiction, a special presentation at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival. She’s talking about the rise of binge-watching culture changing viewing patterns, but she might as well be referring to a good chunk...
A First-Timer's Report from Fantasia Festival

A First-Timer's Report from Fantasia Festival

Aug 9th, 2018 Eric D. Snider
If you're like me, you 1) assumed the Fantasia International Film Festival just showed Disney's Fantasia on a loop for a few days; and 2) are a moron, because how would that even work? It turns out Fantasia is a "genre" festival -- horror, sci-fi, martial arts, weird comedies, anime, gross stuff,...
REVIEW: <i>Boiled Angels: The Trial of Mike Diana</i> Guilty of Being an Entertaining Doc (Fantasia Festival)

REVIEW: Boiled Angels: The Trial of Mike Diana Guilty of Being an Entertaining Doc (Fantasia Festival)

Jul 17th, 2018 Eric D. Snider
(Screened at the 2018 Fantasia Festival; distribution plans not yet announced.) Owing to the slippery definition of the word and our robust (for the time being) First Amendment, it takes a lot to get arrested for "obscenity" in America, let alone actually convicted. A few performers and...
REVIEW: <i>Unfriended: Dark Web</i> Is Too Silly to Terrify, but Fun to Go Along With (Fantasia Festival)

REVIEW: Unfriended: Dark Web Is Too Silly to Terrify, but Fun to Go Along With (Fantasia Festival)

Jul 15th, 2018 Eric D. Snider
(Screened at the 2018 Fantasia Festival; opens July 20 in U.S. theaters) Unfriended: Dark Web has no connection to 2015's Unfriended except that they adhere to the same format: Both unfold in real time entirely on someone's computer screen via their Skype sessions, Facebook chats, and so...
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