Tag: Fantasia International Film Festival
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Animation has long been one of my favorite film mediums. Great artists tell fantastic stories through colorful lenses of exaggerated colors in dazzling, surreal landscapes. When it’s done well, it’s magic, and when it’s not so well, it remains imaginative. I knew Death Does Not Exist (La mort n’existe pas) would be a challenging film.…
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Homeowners Association or HOAs can be pretty ruthless. We’ve all heard stories of HOA presidents riding waves of power, and there are some pretty unbelievable stories out there from public court cases to personal accounts on Reddit threads. It’s no wonder Jenny (Haley Leary) has reservations about moving out of the chaotic city and into…
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We are now less than a week away from the start of the twenty-ninth edition of one of the biggest film festivals on the planet, the Fantasia International Film Festival. This year, the festival begins with Ari Aster’s Eddington, concludes with Genndy Tartakovsky’s Fixed, and is packed with over one hundred additional features to occupy…
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As previously stated, I’m a sucker for animated films. Recently, I’ve been on a bit of an anime kick, mostly looking for underground titles in the horror space that I’ve never seen before. The Kizumonogatari trilogy has been popping onto my radar many times over the last eight years. However, it’s almost impossible for Westerners to…
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We’ve all seen films about hitmen before. Hell, just a few months ago, Netflix released a movie called Hit Man, and it proved to be a big success. These contract killers have been a cinematic mainstay for decades, so at first blush, it might not seem wise to make an entire anthology film about them.…
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Animated films are a sweet spot for me. As I’m often writing about dark aspects of reality, relating horror films to the socio-political elements of our society, it’s good to hit the reset button every once in a while, if only momentarily shaking off the macabre for my own mental health. Of course, not every…
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Two junior police officers, their electrically charged boss, a goat, a cricket player, his elderly neighbor, and his communist butler, convene at a murder scene. While it may sound like it’s the start of an off-color joke, those are just the idiosyncratic suspects in Indian director Pratul Gaikwad’s screwball, surrealist comedy Dead Dead Full Dead…
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If you’ve been following our Fantasia coverage, you might know that House of Sayuri was one of my most anticipated films of the festival. It was directed by the man who made Noroi: The Curse, one of the best found-footage movies way too many people have never heard of, and that was enough to get…
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If you’re a horror fan, you’ve probably heard something about Cuckoo by now. Maybe you’ve seen the trailer, read a review, or seen the bloody bandage spelling out the title wrapped around Hunter Schafer’s head on the poster. You know, something. Cuckoo is one of the big horror releases of the summer, continuing the tradition…
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About halfway through director Kourtney Roy’s Kryptic, a subtle pull of memory began to nag at me from my subconscious cinema. You know, that place in a cinephile’s brain where movies we love are stored, where scenes are resurrected and played back as if appearing on a screen before us. Something about the film strongly…