I originally reviewed Man Vs. Snake: The Long And Twisted Tale Of Nibbler at Fantastic Fest. On Sunday, June 19 it will play at Filmquest before its release on June 24, so I present my review of the film again. Check back Sunday for an interview with Tim Mcvey and Dwayne Richard: Well, I guess this video […]
Back at Fantastic Fest, I reviewed the horror film The Invitation and loved the way it made social pressures the horror. I also got to have a great conversation with director Karyn Kusama and co-writer Phil Hay. Now that the film is coming out in theaters this Friday, I can present you the spoiler-free conversation […]
I’d love to tell you what the bet part of The Martian is, but it’s all the best part. Every aspect of survival and maintaining one’s sanity on Mars is fascinating, but everything in the NASA offices on earth is gripping too. Whether debating an ethical dilemma, circumventing authority or solving interplanetary communication, every scene […]
Assassination Classroom is the kind of idea so strange they could only get away with it in Japan, yet so whimsically absurd that it’s what movie audiences everywhere need. At least this one does. It is based on a manga, which has also been adapted as an animated series too, yet you need no knowledge […]
The Invitation is Karyn Kusama’s best movie. I know how important Girlfight was to female filmmakers and leads, the Latino demographic and I have it to thank for Michelle Rodriguez in Furious 7, but I hope Kusama would accept that 15 years after her first movie, I say she’s developed even greater skills. Will […]
Writer/director Jaco Van Dormael’s previous film, Mr. Nobody, was my favorite film of 2009, 2011 and 2013. ’11 I when I saw it at a Los Angeles Film Festival program for festival hits that didn’t land distribution. It had won awards at the 2009 Venice Film Festival but did not get a U.S. release until […]
High-Rise has everything I would love in a movie: collapse of society, foraging for supplies, absurd debauchery and more. It’s either the source material by J.G. Ballard, the adaptation or director Ben Wheatley’s take on it that loses me, so we’ll have to agree to disagree, cinematically speaking. Dr. Robert Laing (Tom Hiddleston) moves into […]
So wait, they’re yakuza and vampires? Honestly, how has no one thought of this before? I mean, I can’t say for sure they haven’t. I haven’t exhausted all the yakuza films of Japanese cinema. It is a good idea though. It reminds me of the American vampire film Innocent Blood where a mafioso is bitten […]
As February begins with a tone that only exists in indie films, I knew it was a film that only exists for film festivals. It could still be good, but it’s already ruled out any kind of public appeal, even in niche VOD markets. When a film sucks all the life out of a frame, […]
As I get ready to attend Fantastic Fest this year, I think back to a movie I saw at least year’s Fantastic Fest. Redeemer is the latest from Chilean martial artist Marko Zaror. It is now available on DVD and Blu-ray so everyone can see his latest moves, and I got to interview Zaror […]