Reviews

[Review] Shaun the Sheep Movie

When it comes to films specifically marketed to children, popular culture seems to have decided that, for the purposes for artistic merit, there shall be Pixar ...

[Review] Ricki and the Flash

Ricki and the Flash boasts one of the more curious cameos this summer, and it is not from some musician giving a guitar-rockin’ Meryl Streep a thumbs up. It’s B...

[Fantasia Review] They Look Like People

NYC twenty-somethings get their own Take Shelter in newcomer writer/director Perry Blackshear’s They Look Like People, a micro tale of paranoia in the big city ...

[Fantasia Review] The Editor

The Winnipeg-based collective Astron-6, film geeks dedicated to trash cinema of the 70’s and 80’s gained a deal of internet nerd attention with Manborg, a shoes...

[Fantasia Review] Bridgend

When 79 people between 2007 and 2012 commit suicide—many teens and most without a note—within a single town, there's definitely a story to tell. Welcome to Brid...

[Fantasia Review] Crumbs

Spanish writer/director Miguel Llansó's independent film company Lanzadera Films explains its mission as a firm that focuses on "undiscovered countries, experim...

[Fantasia Review] Possessed

I didn't know I wanted a horror parody in the style of Celebrity Deathmatch until about halfway through Samuel Ortí Martí's pitch black skewering of the genre ...

[Fantasia Review] Ava’s Possessions

When the industry is inundated with supernatural horror redundancies like it has for the past two decades, work like Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg's Shaun of the ...

[Fantasia Review] Who Killed Captain Alex?

Who Killed Captain Alex? contains Ugandan commandos, kung fu, a MIDI version of Seal’s “Kiss from a Rose” as part of its score, a rambunctious (and sometimes fa...

[Review] I Am Chris Farley

In Judd Apatow's 2009 dramedy Funny People, Adam Sandler's character George Simmons, an aging comedy star experiencing an existential crisis, gives a toast at a...