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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

Movie Reviews, Movies, Reviews

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 ‘#Manhole’ Review – Simplicity Blossoms Into Full Blown Horror

Chris Sawin

August 24, 2023

Movie Reviews, Movies, Reviews

Directed by Kazuyoshi Kumakiri and written by Michitaka Okada, #Manhole is a Japanese dramatic thriller starring Yûto Nakajima. It’s the night before Shunsuke Kawamura’s (Nakajima) wedding and his co-workers de...

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

Chris Sawin

August 24, 2023

Movie Reviews, Movies, Reviews

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

Chris Sawin

August 10, 2023

Movie Reviews, Movies, Reviews

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 ‘Mother Land’ Review – The First Korean Stop-Motion Animated Film In 45 Years

Chris Sawin

August 8, 2023

Movie Reviews, Movies, Reviews

The Yates are a nomad tribe of the tundra. Mother Land focuses on a family that’s a part of the Yates; a young girl named Krisha, her younger brother Kolya, and their two parents. Krisha is having dreams of rei...

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‘Barbie’ Review – The Pink Meaning Of Life

Chris Sawin

July 21, 2023

Movie Reviews, Movies, Reviews

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

Movie Reviews, Movies, Reviews

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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‘The Flash’ Review – An Unfunny, CGI Monstrosity Of A Superhero Film

Chris Sawin

June 9, 2023

Movie Reviews, Movies, Reviews

In The Flash, Barry Allen’s (Ezra Miller) current existence has left him craving his past. As The Flash, Barry feels like he’s only relied upon to clean up the messes of the Justice League; specifically Batman ...

Aatami (Jorma Tommila) prepares to unleash hell in Sisu (2023), Lionsgate

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‘Sisu’ Review – Buying The Golden Farm

Chris Sawin

May 10, 2023

Movie Reviews, Movies, Reviews

The word 'sisu' is of Finnish descent, but it can’t be literally translated into English. It's a term that refers to the twin concepts of white-knuckled courage and unimaginable determination that manifests whe...

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