Fantasia Review: Next Sohee Handles a Heavy Subject with a Steady Hand
And here I thought capitalism's hold on the American education system by way of unpaid internships was bad. As documented in July Jung's extern drama Next Sohe...
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Fantasia Review: What to Do with the Dead Kaiju? is a Decent Skit Stretched Beyond its Elasticity
The easiest way to describe the tone of Satoshi Miki's realization of an objectively ingenious concept (What happens to the rotting carcass of a defeated kaiju...
Fantasia Review: Inu-oh Presents an Anachronistic Rock Opera to Breathe New Life into Ancient History
Director Masaaki Yuasa and screenwriter Akiko Nogi's adaptation of Hideo Furukawa's novel The Tale of the Heike: The Inu-oh Chapters finishes with a couple scr...
Fantasia Review: Missing is a Crime-Thriller That Flips the Father-Daughter Dynamic
Santoshi Harada (Jirô Satô) has a plan. It concerns a three-million-yen reward for helping capture the infamous serial killer known as "No-Name" (Hiroya Shimiz...
Fantasia Review: Country Gold Captures a Generational Clash with Absurdist Segues
The cost of fame sits in the living room wondering aloud whether dad will be home for Christmas. Why these two young boys' voices have been deepened to sound l...
Fantasia Review: Demigod: The Legend Begins is an Impressive Budaixi Fantasy Spectacle
The Huang family and Pili International Multimedia are back on the big screen, two decades since their feature debut Legend of the Sacred Stone, and if the end...
Fantasia Review: Sissy Turns the Tables on Bullying with a Path of Carnage
There's some delicate subject matter at the heart of Hannah Barlow and Kane Senes' Sissy. It's unavoidable when you're spring-boarding from an objectively trag...
Fantasia Review: The Artifice Girl Examines the Evolution of Artificial Intelligence with an Electric Rhythm
Amidst all the high-concept computer-programming speak and moral / ethical implications surrounding the creation of artificial life, the smartest line of dialo...
Fantasia Review: Chorokbam is a Pitch-Black Macabre Existential Drama
This is not a happy family. Dad (Tae-hoon Lee) works a night security guard shift that makes it so he arrives home as Mom (Min-Kyung Kim) leaves to dry peppers...
Fantasia Review: Glorious is a Bathroom-Set Horror Comedy of Apocalyptic Proportions
The universe has a favor to ask. Well, it's the universe's would-be destroyer asking on its behalf. After an eternity hidden in the ether watching the life tha...