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Fantasia Film Festival 2023 ‘Lovely, Dark, And Deep’ Review – A Baffling Labyrinth Of The Subconscious

September 5, 2023

Writer Teresa Sutherland (Midnight Mass, The Wind) jumps into the director’s chair for the first time with the horror film Lovely, Dark, and Deep. Lennon, played by Georgina Campbell (Barbarian) is a new back-c...

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Fantasia Film Festival 2023 ‘Blackout’ Review – Curse Of The Lone Wolf

Chris Sawin

September 1, 2023

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Writer and director Larry Fessenden has been exploring his take on the Universal monsters for decades. In 1995, he released Habit; a modern vampire tale. With 2019’s The Depraved, the filmmaker also delivered a...

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Fantasia Film Festival 2023 ‘New Life’ Review – Chasing The End Of The World

Chris Sawin

August 24, 2023

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A woman (Hayley Erin) is on the run. Wearing a hoodie to hopefully blend in and covered in blood, she’s near the border to a mysterious location. A fixer named Elsa Gray (Sonya Walger) is struggling with early ...

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‘Meg 2: The Trench’ Review – Big Dumb Shark Movie Is Good Old Dumb Fun

JB Augustine

August 15, 2023

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It took five years for the makers of The Meg to make it unsafe to go back in the water, and for them to convince Jason Statham — a former pro diver — to go swimming with sharks again. I and many others can’t he...

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Fantasia Film Festival 2023 ‘The Primevals’ Review – Stop-Motion Animation 30 Years In The Making

Chris Sawin

August 14, 2023

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The Primevals is a film that began production in the 1990s and took over thirty years to complete. Originally conceived by stop-motion animator and visual effects wizard David Allen, the film went into a state ...

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Fantasia Film Festival 2023 ‘Killing Romance’ Review – A Korean Comedy Bursting At The Seams With Preposterousness

Chris Sawin

August 10, 2023

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The storyline of the South Korean musical romantic comedy Killing Romance is so bonkers and so all over the place that it is almost too longwinded and convoluted to explain. However, seeing everything laid out ...

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Fantasia Film Festival 2023 ‘River’ Review – An Amusing Time Loop Comedy

Chris Sawin

August 8, 2023

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From director Junta Yamaguchi and screenwriter Makoto Ueda, River is another time looping comedy from the filmmaking team behind Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes (BTITM, review here). Set in Kibune, Kyoto ami...

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Review: ‘Batman: The Doom That Came To Gotham’ Looks Good But Doesn’t Quite Hit The Mark

JB Augustine

August 2, 2023

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Batman: The Doom That Came to Gotham, one of this year’s big animated releases for DC, has been out for a few months so it’s no longer the most recent on the calendar, but it made it to Max in the last couple o...

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‘Barbie’ Review – The Pink Meaning Of Life

Chris Sawin

July 21, 2023

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In Barbieland, everything is perfect. All of the Barbies run everything, look beautiful without even trying, and own incredible houses, while the Kens mostly just beach without much point to their existence bes...

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‘Asteroid City’ Review – Wes Anderson’s Charmless Comedic Drama

Chris Sawin

June 24, 2023

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Set in 1955 in a fictional American town, Asteroid City has a whopping population of 87 people. The unbelievably small town is suddenly occupied by Augie Steebeck (Jason Schwartzman), a war photographer whose w...

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