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.
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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.
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Continuing the long-standing trend of Japanese manga adaptations that center on a high school that specializes in some specific subject, Kakegurui is a high-energy farce about a posh private academy that’s composed of spoiled rich kids obsessed with gambling.
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Miyamoto Musashi is arguably the greatest fighter in Japanese history, thought to have won more than 60 duels. He also later developed a two-sword fencing style called nitō ichi-ryū.
Musashi was dubbed kensai or “sword saint,” and his legend continued to grow
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Back in 2000, as part of a promotion for his latest film, Ready to Rumble, actor David Arquette did a collaboration with the WCW and ended up winning the World Heavyweight Championship. This was a controversial stunt that drew savage ire from
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Class Action Park is a funny and at times tragic documentary that’s well made but could have used some more creative flourishes to better complement its subject matter.
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Even the most ardent fans of Marshall’s work will have a hard time finding something to grasp onto with this one, which feels more like a vanity project for his girlfriend than the work of a unique and talented director.
A new trailer has been released for the horror film The Block Island Sound, which is premiering at this year’s virtual edition of Montreal’s Fantasia Festival.
Directed by Kevin and Matthew McManus, the film involves a strange force that takes over
A new trailer for the sci-fi film Undergods has been released ahead of its premiere at this year’s Fantasia Festival in Montreal. Directed by Chino Moya, the film tells a series of stories about a group of men whose lives are disrupted
Manchester’s genre film festival Grimmfest has announced the full lineup for their upcoming virtual edition, boasting 20 over feature films. John Hyams’ thriller Alone will open the festival with some other notable entries being Revenge Ride, Ten Minutes to Midnight, and Ropes
Film at Lincoln Center announced today that Azazel Jacobs’ French Exit has been chosen as this year’s closing film of the New York Film Festival.
Adapted from the novel by Patrick deWitt, the film stars Michelle Pfeiffer as a New York socialite
A new trailer has been released for the thriller Come True ahead of its premiere at this year’s virtual edition of the Fantasia Film Festival. Directed by Anthony Scott Burns, the film stars Julia Sarah Stone as a teenager who agrees to participate
LA’s Outfest LGBTQ film festival have announced the lineup for their 2020 edition, which, like many film festivals this year, will be presented online.
160 titles will be screening virtually over ten days from August 20 – 30, the full list of
