Reviews
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Fantasia 2015 Review: A Hard Day Makes It Look Easy
Kino Lorber Follow our Fantasia International Film Festival coverage here. Detective Ko Gun-soo (Lee Sun-gyun) is not having a good day. He’s forced to race back…
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The Gift Is the Right Kind of Nasty
Lionsgate Simon (Jason Bateman) and Robyn (Rebecca Hall) have moved to Los Angeles in the hopes of leaving past troubles behind them as they start…
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Fantastic Four Fails
20th Century Fox There’s an argument to be made that Marvel Comics’ The Fantastic Four is a superhero property best left on the page. Roger Corman…
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Dark Places Gets Lost In Dumb Places
A24 Everyone is haunted by their past. The traumas we’ve survived, the actions we took and those we avoided – these memories of the past…
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Fantasia 2015 Review: Robbery Is Playfully Nihilistic and Depressingly Hopeful
Fantasia Fantasia International Film Festival 2015 runs 7/14–8/4. Follow our coverage here. Writer/director Fire Lee’s feature debut, Robbery, is a stylish, extremely violent comedy that mixes…
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Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation Review: This Franchise Is Just Getting Started
Paramount Pictures With Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol director Brad Bird took this franchise to another level. While Brian De Palma’s first film holds up…
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Fantasia 2015 Review: Deadman Inferno Is Horror/Comedy Perfection, Japanese Style
Fantasia Fantasia International Film Festival 2015 runs 7/14–8/4. Follow our coverage here. The phrase “Japanese horror comedy” most likely doesn’t inspire much confidence these days because…
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Fantasia 2015 Review: Jeruzalem Unleashes Monsters of Biblical Proportions
Fantasia Fantasia International Film Festival 2015 runs 7/14–8/4. Follow our coverage here. Legend tells us that there are three gates to hell – one is in…
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Fantasia 2015 Review: Anguish Finds a Beating Heart Among the Undead
Fantasia Fantasia International Film Festival 2015 runs 7/14–8/4. Follow our coverage here. Lucy (Amberley Gridley) and her mother, Sarah (Karina Logue), are arguing in the car…