Tag: fantasy
Berlinale 2025 Review: MICKEY 17, Bong Joon Ho Takes Us to the Stars in Angry and Amusing Sci-fi Comedy
With his latest film, Bong Joon Ho reaches for the stars but what his characters discover in the far reaches of space is just another version of the messed-up world they left behind, a world Bong has laid bare for...
Rotterdam 2025 Review: TRANSCENDING DIMENSIONS Sees Toshiaki Toyoda Play the Hits
In the Q&A after Transcending Dimensions, Toyoda mentioned that this might be his last feature film, as he felt like he transcended himself with this film. What does a transcendent Toyoda-film look like? As usually loud, violent and surreal,...
Sundance 2025 Review: THE LEGEND OF OCHI, Family-Oriented Fantasy-Adventure For the Win
After two decades directing a plethora of shorts, commercials, and music videos, writer-director Isaiah Saxon makes his official feature-length debut with The Legend of Ochi, a richly imagined, Amblin-influenced family-oriented fantasy-adventure set in a semi-contemporary mythical Eastern Europe. Bolstered...
Rotterdam 2025 Review: FABULA, Chaos In The Peatlands
The Dutch film Fabula, the opening film of IFFR 2025, employs all possible means to tell its story. The film, much like its protagonist, the 55-year-old petty criminal Jos (played by renowned Dutch actor Fedja van Huêt), does not adhere to...
IN THE LOST LANDS Trailer: Dave Bautista And Milla Jovovich Star in Paul W.S. Anderson's Apocalyptic Actioner
Paul W.S. Anderson looks to put in his best attempt at copying the Snyder-verse in an adaptation of the short story, In The Lost Lands, by Game of Thrones author George R.R. Martin. The official trailer and poster have...
Now Streaming: Shudder, Kicking Off December Horror
What do 'Village of the Damned,' 'Dead Calm,' and 'Rare Exports' have in common?
Friday One Sheet: HOT FROSTY (Sorry)
I apologized in the title, and I apologize again here, for propagating the deluge of Christmas themed romantic and family slop on the various streaming services. Recently this is providing much needed work for Lindsay Lohan, albeit Lohan does not appear the...
ADDAMS FAMILY VALUES 4K Review
Not only is Halloween thankfully upon us, but the next major holiday, Thanksgiving, at least in America, is next. That can only mean one thing: it’s time for a re-watch of Addams Family Values! Our friends at Paramount Home Entertainment...
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...
NOSFERATU Trailer: We Are, Apparently, Succumbing to the Darkness
While there are no end of variations on the vampire story, and indeed we've been able to dive into the lore of this particular monster and its incarntions across a multitude of cultures, there is something about the image of...
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),...
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: 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...
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...
Karlovy Vary 2024 Review: PARTHENOPE, Fantasy of Womanhood Through Male Gaze
Paolo Sorrentino, the Oscar-winning Italian director, returns with 'Parthenope,' a visually opulent film that serves as both a love letter to Naples and a very male exploration of womanhood through the intertwining lenses of myth and modernity.
Friday One Sheet: MAD MAX & THE FURY ROAD
With the underwhelming box office of the latest film in the decade spanning Mad Max franchise, Furiosa, there may be no more of these wonderful, experimental, and auteur-driven action films made. That is a shame. But we can dream. As...
THE VOURDALAK: Trailer And Poster For Adaptation of 18th Century Vampire Tale
When the Marquis d’Urfé, a noble emissary of the King of France, is attacked and abandoned in the remote countryside, he finds refuge at an eerie, isolated manor. The resident family, reluctant to take him in, exhibits strange behavior as...
COMA Review: Dealing with Lockdown, An Isolated Fever Dream
Bertrand Bonello wrote and directed; Louise Labeque and Julia Faure star.
HUMANIST VAMPIRE SEEKING CONSENTING SUICIDAL PERSON Trailer: It's Not Easy Being Fanged
2023 was an excellent year for Quebec cinema, and it's great to see more of these films getting release outside my province. And it's especially great to see more genre fare, lending new twists to old tropes. Coming in with...
