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ANORA MOVIE REVIEW Writer/director Sean Baker hits Fantastic Fest with the Palme d’Or winner at Cannes this year, Anora. Ani (Mikey Madison) is a stripper whose life in New York City is filled with parties, sex, and fun. Because she can speak Russian, her boss connects her with a young Russian son of an oligarch […]

TERRIFIER 3 MOVIE REVIEW One of the best things about Fantastic Fest is how there’s something very nichey for every taste. And if your taste runs to unbelievably explicit gore and goofy clown killers, then you already know all about director/writer Damien Leone’s Terrifier series. The third entry dips into the beloved subgenre of Xmas […]

THE RULE OF JENNY PEN MOVIE REVIEW John Lithgow and Geoffrey Rush play two men in a nursing home who go to war with each other. That’s certainly enough of a selling point alone for the Fantastic Fest film, The Rule of Jenny Pen. But the film we saw wasn’t exactly what we expected. Rush […]

Párvulos Movie Review Mexican director Isaac Ezban returns to Fantastic Fest this year with his new post-zombie-apocalypse film Párvulos. The story centers around a house in the middle of nowhere where a teen boy and his two much younger brothers eke out a scant survival. Both parents are gone, ostensibly dead but it appears as […]

WHAT HAPPENED TO DOROTHY BELL? MOVIE REVIEW Found footage horror isn’t always everyone’s favorite, but if it’s playing at Fantastic Fest, it generally is better than most. Such is the case for What Happened to Dorothy Bell? written and directed by Danny Villanueva Jr. The film follows Ozzie (Asya Meadows) who has lost much of […]

BOOKWORM MOVIE REVIEW You just can’t keep Elijah Wood away from New Zealand. And who can blame him? It’s goddamn gorgeous. He gets to revisit the scenic countryside in his second collaboration with director Ant Timpson, Bookworm. The tale starts with Mildred (Nell Fisher) and her mom who don’t get along well. Mildred lives a […]

U ARE THE UNIVERSE MOVIE REVIEW What would you do if you were an astronaut on a deep space mission and discovered the Earth had blown up? If you were Ukrainian space trucker Andriy, then probably not much different. You’d continue to tolerate terrible dad jokes from your onboard robot trying to cheer you up, […]

THE SUBSTANCE MOVIE REVIEW We’ve never seen Demi Moore like this before. Coralie Fargeat’s, director of Revenge, second feature film The Substance is a wild combination of David Cronenberg’s body-horror and Frank Henenlotter’s exploitation sensibilities. Demi Moore plays Elizabeth Sparkle, whose stardom has faded from Hollywood icon to hosting a tv workout show ala Jane […]

REBEL RIDGE MOVIE REVIEW Nothing like a good ol’ fashioned solid action flick. Jeremy Saulnier (Blue Ruin, Green Room) is back with his newest film, Rebel Ridge, starring Aaron Pierre, AnnaSophia Robb, and Don Johnson. We meet Pierre’s character Terry riding his bike down a long country road where he’s suddenly run off the road […]

DIGITAL NOISE EPISODE 346: THE MEN FROM DIGITAL NOISE Chris and Wright have a stack that goes all over the place, from deadly electrified motorcycle beach killers to Costner “classics” getting a not-so-great reevaluation. From Bowie playing a con-man working with Rosanna Arquette to rob a restaurant, to a giant spider eating people in an […]