NIGHT OF THE REAPER MOVIE REVIEW Once upon a time we all had a babysitter and once upon a time within that once upon a time we all watched babysitters get massacred by a maniac around Halloween. From the network that brought you such nostalgia as “Kids on bikes solving mysteries” and “Your ghost isn’t […]

GOOD LUCK, HAVE FUN, DON’T DIE MOVIE REVIEW Despite the ‘official’ premiere of the first Gore Verbinski film in eight years being at Beyond Fest on 9/28, the ACTUAL world premiere was at the final secret screening of Fantastic Fest on 9/25. His new film Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die is a dystopian sci-fi […]

BUGONIA MOVIE REVIEW Based on a 2003 South Korean film called Save The Green Planet!, the latest film from Yorgos Lanthimos unsurprisingly stars his new muse Emma Stone but it is her co-star Jesse Plemons who steals the show. Bugonia was a secret screening this year and we were here for it (in both a […]

ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER MOVIE REVIEW At Fantastic Fest every year they have a series of ‘secret screenings’. These can vary from tiny films you’ve never heard of to premieres of giant films. Way back when, the fest got on the map when they did the premiere of There Will Be Blood at a secret […]

WHEN WE WERE LIVE MOVIE REVIEW In his documentary about Public Access Television in Austin, Texas in the 80s and 90s, director John Spottswood Moore had a LOT of material to sift through. Austin’s station was by far one of the most prolific in the country (second only to NYC, I believe). Let me tell […]

HEART/FELT – AN INNOCENT MEETING THE WORLD: THE GREAT MUPPET CAPER In this episode of Heart/Felt, I’m joined by writer and podcaster Frank Calvillo to talk all things The Great Muppet Caper, Jim Henson’s dazzling and chaotic follow-up to The Muppet Movie. We dig into its playful tone, inventive visuals, and how it captures the […]

SISU: ROAD TO REVENGE MOVIE REVIEW Actor Jorma Tommila returns to his character in Sisu (no, his name is not Sisu) in a bigger, bloodier, more insane affair, as you would expect to a sequel to Sisu. Road to Revenge has him returning to the part of Finland that he used to live with his […]

THE FORBIDDEN CITY MOVIE REVIEW Genre-fusing sometimes is an awkward affair, ending up with a film that doesn’t know what it is. But sometimes it creates something that feels very new. Sometimes it ends up being epic. Fortunately this is the case for The Forbidden City. The story follows Mei, a girl who along with […]

BEAST OF WAR MOVIE REVIEW When a ship of Australian soldiers goes down in the middle of the ocean on their way to fight in WWII, only a handful survive. They find themselves in a calm, windless sea on a makeshift raft. There’s no water, food, several are seriously injured, and there’s one big and […]

IF I HAD LEGS I’D KICK YOU MOVIE REVIEW Linda (Rose Byrne) is so very, very tired. She has a young daughter with severe enough of an eating disorder that she needs to be fed by a stomach tube or she will die. Her husband is away for work so she has to do everything […]