Fantastic Fest 2025: ‘Bugonia’ is a Perfectly Weird Satire
We continue our Fantastic Fest 2025 coverage with the latest movie from Yorgos Lanthimos. The filmmaker behind provocative and quirky
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Fantastic Fest 2025: ‘If I Had Legs I’d Kick You’ Explores the Stresses of Motherhood
Our Fantastic Fest 2025 coverage continues with an unexpected gem. The movie If I Had Legs, I’d Kick You made
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Fantastic Fest 2025: ‘Black Phone 2’ Finds Depth Through Nightmares
Last night, we attended the first screening of Black Phone 2 at Fantastic Fest 2025. The sequel sparked considerable interest
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Fantastic Fest 2025: ‘Shelby Oaks’ is a Worthy Misfire
Our Fantastic Fest 2025 coverage continues with Shelby Oaks. When it comes to the topic of film criticism, it’s hard to
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Fantastic Fest 2025: ‘Primate’ is a Slick, Animalistic, Horror Throwback
Primate is the latest film from Johannes Roberts, whose last movie was Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City. As the
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Fantastic Fest 2025: 7 Highly Anticipated Films to Watch
Fantastic Fest 2025 kicks off today in Austin, Texas, with another year of potentially great offerings. The festival is jam-packed
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Fantastic Fest 2024: Interview with ‘U Are The Universe’ Writer-Director Pavlo Ostrikov
As part of Fantastic Fest, I had the special opportunity to preview the new Ukrainian science fiction film U Are the
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Fantastic Fest 2024: ‘The Wild Robot’ and ‘Will & Harper’ Reviews
We continue our Fantastic Fest coverage with two of the most heartfelt experiences of the entire festival. Both have beautiful
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Fantastic Fest 2024 Movie Reviews: ‘Anora’ and ‘Saturday Night’
Fantastic Fest 2024 is well underway and I had a chance to catch two more films screening there, Sean Baker’s
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Fantastic Fest 2024 Movie Review: ‘The Rule of Jenny Pen’
Fantastic Fest 2024 kicked off with a bang yesterday. Many titles were at the festival, including The Rule of Jenny
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Humanity’s Survival and Prehistoric Horrors in ‘Out of Darkness’
One of the coolest compliments I ever heard the late, great Roger Ebert express about a movie was that, while
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‘She is Conann’ Review: A Banksy-inspired Vision of Conan the Barbarian
She is Conann is not a Conan film. The characters are mostly here, including the addition of Red Sonja. But the acid
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