Tag: adventure
Now Streaming: Shudder, Kicking Off December Horror
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GLADIATOR II Review: Ridley Scott Returns to Imperial Rome With Mixed Results
After more than two decades in development limbo, countless rejected drafts permanently memory-holed to studio vaults, and near endless studio dawdling, Ridley Scott (Napoleon, Blade Runner, Alien) seemingly inexhaustible even as his 87th birthday quickly approaches, makes a triumphant return...
STAR WARS: SKELETON CREW: Watch The New Trailer
Anticipation for the next Star Wars series, Skeleton Crew, is growing and this new trailer builds on top of that. By all appearances it looks like things are back on track, getting ready to deliver some good old fashioned, rollicking...
VENOM: THE LAST DANCE Review: Third Time's Sort of The Charm
Given how the Marvel stranglehold on entertainment has been loosened as of late, it can be hard for fans to know what to expect from a current Marvel film. It's become clear that having to be an expert across multiple...
FRANKIE FREAKO: Raven Banner Launches Pre-sales For Physical Release on Blu and VHS
Raven Banner has announced the launch of pre-sales for their Special Edition of Steven Kostanski's small creature feature Frankie Freako. An instant hit on the festival circuit, pleasing fans wherever it played, you can pre-order either the Special Edition...
Fantastic Fest 2024 Interview: FRANKIE FREAKO Director Steve Kostanski
I should start by saying I’m a Steve Kostanski stan. Does that make me a Kost-FAN-ski? In any event, his name on a project automatically elevates my interest. This is especially true when he’s in the director's chair. Manborg (2011),...
THUNDERBOLTS* Teaser Trailer: Marvel's Attempt at The Rag-Tag Action Ensemble
Today the teaser trailer for Marvel Studios released the trailer for Thunderbolts*, their go at the rag-tag band of misfits action adventure film to which they once held the crown for with the GotG films before that trilogy's director left...
Toronto 2024 Review: THE WILD ROBOT, Ground-breaking Animation Powers Familiar Family Tale
Dreamworks Animation presents Chris Sanders' adaptation of Peter Brown's popular children's book.
FRANKIE FREAKO Trailer: Steven Kostanski's 80s Small Creature Feature in Theaters This October
Steven Kostanski's deep dive into the films that influenced their own filmography continued with their ode to 80s small creature features, Frankie Freako. The film had its world premiere at Fantasia last month, well received by that uproarious crowd, no...
Fantasia 2024 Review: FRANKIE FREAKO, Steven Kostanski's Chaotic Puppet Adventure Is Freakin' Great!
A painfully bland office worker gets his world turned upside down by a trio of tiny cosmic weirdos in Steven Kostanski’s latest gonzo comedy, Frankie Freako. After hit cult comedy gold with 2021’s Psycho Goreman, Kostanski and his usual bunch...
MotelX 2024: SASQUATCH SUNSET, IN A VIOLENT NATURE And ODDITY Lead First Wave
Our friends at MotelX, the excellent genre film festival in Lisbon, Portugal, have annonced the first wave of titles for this year's festival, coming up this September. Festival standouts Sasquatch Sunset, In A Violent Naure, Oddity, Cuckoo, Humanist Vampire Seeking...
Fantasia 2024 Review: BOOKWORM, A Parenting Adventure In The Wilderness
Early on in Bookworm, a doctor struggles to have a conversation with a child about her injured mother. The medical professional tries to ease the child’s anxiety and kind of makes a fool of himself, because the young girl just...
Fantasia 2024: Let Us Raise the Curtain on North America's Largest Genre Festival
The 28th Fantasia International Film Festival runs from July 18 to August 4 in a hot hot hot Montreal. For those of us located in North America, it is one of our favourite times of the year. Due to its...
MEANWHILE ON EARTH Trailer: French Sci-fi Drama in Theaters This September
Metrograph Pictures is releasing Jérémy Clapin's sci-fi drama, Meanwhile on Earth, in cinemas on September 13th. A 23 year-old girl is contacted by an unknown life form claiming to be able to bring her older brother safely back to...
ULTRAMAN: RISING Review: Netflix Brings an Oversized Superhero to the Small Screen
Parenting is hard. Parenting a 20-foot tall, rambunctiously temperamental kaiju toddler speeds right past hard and straight into impossible territory. It’s all the more difficult when you already split your time between saving Japan from an influx of unwanted kaiju...
FURIOSA: A MAD MAX SAGA Review: George Miller's Prequel Hits On All Cylinders
Anya Taylor-Joy and Chris Hemsworth star.
KINGDOM OF THE PLANET OF THE APES Review: A Disappointing Devolution of the Species
Planet of the Apes, one of the longest running and most consistent science fiction film series in cinema history, returns this week with its tenth entry, Wes Ball’s Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes. Diving back into the world...
Pretty Packaging: The French Limited GANDAHAR Release Is Stacked
The French animation director René Laloux only made three feature films in his career, but each of those became a science fiction cult classic. His Fantastic Planet made it into the Criterion collection, and the DVDs Eureka released of the...
FURIOSA : A MAD MAX SAGA: Offical Trailer #2 - She Will Return With a Vengeance.
Warner Bros. have just released the next official trailer for George Miller's Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga. As the world fell, young Furiosa is snatched from the Green Place of Many Mothers and falls into the hands of a...
STAR WARS: THE ACOLYTE Trailer: The End of The High Republic is Nigh
This isn't about good or bad, it's about power and who is allowed to use it. The next Star Wars series, The Acolyte, is coming to Disney+ this June. It takes place during the final days of the High...
