The 2021 Slamdance Film Festival will be entering its 27th year, and first virtual edition, in 2021 and today the full lineup of titles has been announced.
This year’s program, available on all major streaming devices, will consist of 25 features and
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Two years after his debut, Searching, director Aneesh Chaganty is back with his sophomore feature, Run, a Hitchcockian thriller that may be more traditional than his last computer-screen-based effort but is compelling nonetheless.
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With its threadbare plot, gobsmackingly frustrating characters, and dull time-loop mechanic, Koko-Di Koko-Da is a test of one’s patience more than it is a meditation on grief.
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The tight, 75-minute runtime allows little breathing room for its characters, while the story never quite differentiates itself from others that have come before.
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The unique and masterfully executed animation is worth the price of admission alone, but the thoughtful homage to classic monster movies and the frequent comedic injections make this a fun, albeit rough around the edges, spook show.
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Changes in character and perception make this film unique, but it’s unfortunate that these elements are weighed down by a story teetering on the edge of believability.
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White Elephant is a story of a teen’s diasporic identity told through paltry means and a lack of focus.
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This is a repost of our review from Fantasia Festival 2020. The Mortuary Collection will be available on Shudder October 14, 2020.
Although the anthology film has been a mainstay in the horror genre for decades, it’s been a few years since
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Reminiscent of 2016’s home-invasion thriller Don’t Breathe, David Charbonier and Justin Powell’s kidnap thriller The Boy Behind The Door is an undeniably suspenseful, albeit often misguided, story about two best friends fighting for survival after being abducted.
Setting aside the inconsistent messaging,
This year’s Fantastic Fest will be going virtual and today the full lineup of films has been announced. Celebration of Fantastic Fest will be taking place September 24 – October 1 on the Alamo Drafthouse streaming platform and will contain a slew
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It may be almost as messy as the trucks heading back from the Yacht Club, but movies like this are a gateway into the nooks and crannies of our country and serve as a sociological time capsule of this time and place.
Montreal’s Fantasia Festival has officially wrapped, and with that the award winners from this year’s virtual edition have been announced. Daria Woszek’s Marygoround won the jury prize for Best Film and Best Director, with Brea Grant‘s 12 Hour Shift winning
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Reminiscent of a Kung Fu version of Uncle Drew and even the recent Cobra Kai TV series, Quoc Bao Tran’s feature debut, The Paper Tigers, concerns the lives of three former Kung Fu prodigies who must overcome their past conflicts and now-middle-aged
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Playing out like some kind of perverted fantasy rather than a deep rumination on obsession and addiction, Ben Hozie’s PVT Chat may mean well, but its misguided finale sets the wrong tone on a subject that’s becoming more relevant as more sex
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Survival Skills works best in its final act, culminating in a dark, powerful finale that completely turned me around on it after a slow second act.
7.5
There are plenty of documentaries out there that discuss meme culture, but none so succinctly outline and break down the trajectory of a meme than Feels Good Man.
