Author: Adam Charles
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Fantastic Fest: ‘Taped’ Is Tight, Taut and Occasionally Frustrating
I can recall a joke from the late comedian Richard Jeni about America and our approach towards invention of the last twenty years. “We may…
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Fantastic Fest: ‘Besties’ is As Tolerable As a Teenager That’s Difficult to Tolerate
A few years back, I attended an anniversary screening for Fred Dekker’s The Monster Squad, with the cast and filmmaker in attendance for a post-film…
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Fantastic Review: ‘Here Comes the Devil’ Is a Surprisingly Mature B-Movie
For Fantastic Fest year 7, director Adrian Garcia Bogliano brought his feature film Penumbra about a female lawyer desperately attempting to rent out a flat…
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Fantastic Fest: ‘Holy Motors,’ Batman!
Four years ago avant garde filmmaker Leos Carax contributed his unique storytelling to the anthology picture Tokyo! and told of a strange, seemingly mythical-esque humanoid…
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Devouring ‘Nightbreed’ Or, Why Even Dead People Frown Upon Necrophilia
Welcome back to Junfood Cinema. We break laws for meat. Column-owner Brian Salisbury is currently further North than the Northest of the Dakotas covering the…
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Movies to See Before the World Ends: Jason X
The Mayans, the wise race of ancients who created hot cocoa, set December 21st, 2012 as the end date of their Calendar, which the intelligent…
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Review: ‘Rock of Ages’ n’ Roll of My Eyeballs
Being a child of the ’80s and a pre-adolescent product of rock n’ roll’s most fashion-concerned era (you would, in no way, find pictures of…
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Movies to See Before the World Ends: The Phantom Carriage
The Mayans, the wise race of ancients who created hot cocoa, set December 21st, 2012 as the end date of their Calendar, which the intelligent…
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Catching Fire: Is the Best Director Always the Better Filmmaker?
Editor’s Note: With Landon Palmer busy (read: probably writing a thesis on Sexual Deviancy in John Wayne Films in the Greater Context of Post-WWII America…