Tag: comedy

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),...

Hollywood Suite's Shocktober Lineup Includes R.L. Stine's ZOMBIE LAND, The Rarely Seen THE HAUNTING OF JULIA, And More

There you are, preparing your spooky season viewing schedule as October approaches. If you're a subscriber to Hollywood Suite here in Canada then you have to pay mind to their Shocktober lineup.    The highlights of the month, over a...

KRAZY HOUSE Official Trailer: Nick Frost And Alicia Silverstone Star in New Flick From NEW KIDS Duo

Steffen Haars and Flip van der Kuil's violent satire Krazy House is coming to VOD on October 4th and the official trailer is here to mark the occasion.   When Russian workers in Bernie’s house turn out to be wanted...

Toronto 2024 Review: RIFF RAFF, Riffs on Parenting, The Holidays, And THE REF

The foul mouthed holiday film is now, more or less, a cinema tradition.   From Terry Zwigoff’s Bad Santa to National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation to Harold Ramis’s The Ice Harvest, there are plenty of these anti-Christmas yet still kinda Christmas...

Russ Meyer's VIXEN Trilogy To Find New Life In 4K Restoration From Severin Films

What once seemed like a pipe dream is on track to become a reality as Severin plans to release brand new 4K restorations of three of Meyer's seminal films, 1968's Vixen!, 1975's Supervixens, and the filmmaker's theatrical swan song, 1978's...

THE KILLER'S GAME Review: The Ghost of the Action Movies Past

Tuxedo-clad superstar hitman Joe Flood (Dave Bautista) crashes a premiere of contemporary ballet in the Budapest opera house in order to kill his target. As panic ensues, Joe ends up escorting one of the dancers, Maize (Sofia Boutella) out and...

Toronto 2024 Review: ANORA, This Palme D'Or Winner Is a Banger

The experience of watching Anora is akin to a spontaneous and unexpected invite to a epic house-wrecking party. It starts off with surprise and wonder, plunges into drunken euphoria, loses all your friends, projectile vomits on you in a car ride around...

Friday One Sheet: HARD TRUTHS

Faces go a long way in poster; there is a wonderful pairing here. The design for Mike Leigh's latest film (premiering today at TIFF) uses text, both the soft yellow of the title, as well as above the line and...

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...

HELL OF A SUMMER: Neon Acquires Finn Wolfhard and Billy Bryk's Comedy Horror

The counselors of a summer camp are terrorized by a masked killer.

Y2K Official Trailer: Kyle Mooney's Turn of the Century Disaster Comedy in Theaters This December

On the last night of 1999, two high school juniors crash a New Years Eve party, only to find themselves fighting for their lives in this dial-up disaster comedy.

Fantasia 2024 Review: TIMESTALKER, Alice Lowe Chases The Love of Their Lives

They say "You'll find love when you stop looking for it." Well, I can tell you from experience that I stopped a long time ago and either I’m not looking very well or it’s complete bullshit.    On the other...

DIDI Review: Coming-of-Age Tale Moves, Resonates, Illuminates

Written and directed by Sean Wang, the film stars Izaac Wang, Joan Chen, Shirley Chen, and Chang Li Hua.

Fantasia 2024 Review: CARNAGE FOR CHRISTMAS, A Plucky Podcaster Hunts A Serial Killer In Her Hometown

A true crime podcaster heading home for Christmas finds herself in the middle of a murder spree that she has to solve before she becomes the next victim in Alice Maio Mackay’s Carnage for Christmas. Mackay’s latest feature marks her...

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...

Fantasia 2024 Review: CHAINSAWS WERE SINGING, A Gleefully Gory Musical Ten Years In The Making

Bursting with ingenuity and good old fashioned, “come on pals, let’s make a movie!” can-do energy, Sander Maran’s debut feature, Chainsaws Were Singing, is a gleefully gory musical romantic horror comedy that really hits the spot and proves that sometimes...

THE KILLER'S GAME: Official Poster Revealed

My interest in action comedy The Killer's Game was piqued for a couple of reasons. Dave Bautista is arguably one of the most entertaining wrestlers who pivoted into acting and it was directed by stunt professional turned director, JJ Perry,...

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...

Karlovy Vary 2024 Review: Political Satire RUMOURS Takes Surreal Turn

Guy Maddin teams up with Evan Johnson and Galen Johnson on a trippy political comedy in a dystopian predicament led by Cate Blanchett.

UHF 4K Review: Shout Factory Helps Bring Joy Decades Later

What can be said about UHF that hasn’t been said before? “Weird Al” Yankovic and his manager/the director of the film, Jay Levey, pulled off something that was originally released in 1989. Oh, simpler times. The film is a ridiculous,...