Fantasia Review: Aporia Finds Judy Greer Rebuilding Her Life in Grounded Sci-Fi Tale
What would your life be like if you didn’t go to work the day an accident would otherwise change everything? How much of your future might shift if you decide ...
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Fantasia Review: Booger Charts a Self-Destructive Journey to Find a Missing Cat
Unable to come to terms with her best friend and roommate Izzy’s death, Anna (Grace Glowicki) does everything possible to avoid that which she cannot fix by fo...
Fantasia Review: Agnes is Not Your Mother’s Exorcism Movie
Agnes begins how any other possession film might––with the discovery of a demonic presence. When the convent of Saint Theresa fear there’s evil inhabiting the ...
Fantasia Review: Mark O’Brien’s Directorial Debut The Righteous is a Brooding, Murky Acting Showcase
After helming a number of shorts over the years, Canadian actor Mark O'Brien—who has appeared in major mainstream films like Arrival, Bad Times at the El Royal...
Fantasia Review: King Knight is a Superficial Hero’s Journey
Richard Bates Jr.’s King Knight has an approximation of many things: humor, story, idiosyncrasy, character depth and likeability, production design, dialogue, ...
Fantasia Review: Detention Marks a Horrifying High Point for Videogame Adaptations
As
a subversive poem (according to the Chinese Nationalist Party that ruled Taiwan
under martial law during the period known as the White Terror from 1947 unti...
Fantasia Review: Fugitive Dreams Plunges into an Inescapable Purgatory
Every single one of us knows the terror of the unknown. Maybe it's as universal as our collective uncertainty about the future or as specific as your inability...
Fantasia Review: The Paper Tigers Brings Kung Fu Comedy to a Dramatic Set-up
Like
the warring Japanese dojos depicted throughout the Karate Kid franchise, a growing disconnect exists between those who
wish to learn a fighting style as a...
Fantasia Review: Undergods Sets Géza Röhrig in a Dystopic Cautionary Tale
We
all like to think we have control—kings of our proverbial castles. It's all a
ruse, though. We're actually slaves to a system that seems more and more likel...
Fantasia Review: Come True Offers Up Nightmares with Indelible Imagery
The
darkened screen is almost pitch black before we can begin to discern shapes in
the distance. First it's wooden stakes in the ground at what looks to be a
t...