Fantastic Fest

Film Festival.

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Fantastic Fest: Don’t Get Short With ‘Downsizing’

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Alexander Payne and Matt Damon remain small in this latest satirical scolding of our middle-class desires.

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Fantastic Fest: ‘Mom and Dad’ Grinds Gore for Your Pleasure

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Nicolas Cage and Selma Blair chew through scenery and sinew in this latest wannabe grindhouse exercise.

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Fantastic Fest: Talking ‘The Endless’ With Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead

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Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead talk ‘The Endless,’ time travel, and the pervasiveness of cults in popular culture.

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Fantastic Fest: ‘Jailbreak’ Unleashes Brutal Fun from Cambodia

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One-note plot. A whole symphony of ass-kicking mayhem.

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Fantastic Fest: Talking Misery and pleasure with the stars of ‘Gerald’s Game’

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Two actors find the energy and the emotional truth in the room.

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Fantastic Fest: Talking the Insanity of Isolation with the Stars and Director of ‘1922′

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A discussion of the American Gothic built on the heartbreak of loneliness and the hunger of rats.

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Fantastic Fest: A Conversation With the Cast and Director of ‘Super Dark Times’

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We spoke with the director and stars of ‘Super Dark Times,’ the hauntingly bleak coming-of-age film.

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Fantastic Fest: ‘Top Knot Detective’ Suggests Truth Is Stranger Than Fiction But Fictional Truths Are Even Stranger

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“The path of justice is like a woman. Confusing, difficult, annoying, sexy, but ultimately violent and full of death, destruction, and madness.”

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Fantastic Fest: ‘Brawl in Cell Block 99’ Is Head-Crushin’ Good Times

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‘Brawl in Cell Block 99’ trades in the open prairies of ‘Bone Tomahawk’ for the 6×8 of a federal prison.