Weinberg Reviews PUSHER, a Remake That Respects the Original
The easy way to approach an English-language remake of a (relatively) recent film is with ample doses of frustration and disdain. "How dare they remake a great film like [REC] / Let the Right One In / The Girl with... More »
  

Fantastic Fest 2012 Review: HELLFJORD Is a Delightfully Surreal Descent Into Norway's Fishy North
From the creators of Dead Snow, Cold Prey and You Said What (so pretty much every talented Norwegian currently making movies) comes this delightfully weird and wonderful television series, following a disgraced city police officer as he sees out... More »
  

Fantastic Fest 2012 Review: THE EXORCIST IN THE 21ST CENTURY
The recent surge in occult horror films, particularly those involving demonic possession is hardly a new thing. Such surges are often followed by sensationalistic documentaries that purport to get behind the real life history and mystery of possession events or... More »
  

Fantastic Fest 2012 Review: TWO RABBITS Looks Good But Makes Little Sense
The first thing you'll notice in Afonso Poyart's light-hearted Brazilian crime actioner is the impressive bright yellow subtitles. I couldn't help but think for the first ten minutes about how remarkably legible those subtitles were. Why don't all movies have... More »
  

Fantastic Fest 2012 Review: DANGER 5 is YACHT ROCK-level Hilarious, but with Nazis!
All right, let's get straight to the biscuits: World War Two. The Nazis are making their mark on Europe. Adolf Hitler wants to take the world. And keep it. All for himself. Hitler's days are numbered because Danger 5 are... More »
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Fantastic Fest 2012 Review: LA MEMORIA DEL MUERTO Is A Delirious Genre Mashup
Influenced by everything from Dario Argento's Suspiria (1977) to Sam Raimi's Evil Dead II (1987) this bit of occult horror from director Valentín Javier Diment pops like a Tex Avery cartoon off the screen, offering solid laughs and genuinely shocking... More »
  

Fantastic Fest 2012 Review: Despite Misfires, Sniper Thriller TOWER BLOCK Hits Its Mark

Nothing good ever happens on the block. It might not be small-scale alien invasions of futuristic battles with scarred lady drug kingpins, but if you live on a block, something terrible is bound to happen to you. Consider the film... More »
  

Fantastic Fest 2012 Review: FUCK UP Doesn't Fuck It Up
The Norwegians are leaving, and this time you can't blame Audrey Horne. Another Fantastic Fest has come and gone, and our Scandinavian brethren have returned to the land of ice and snow of their own volition, not because a young,... More »
  

Fantastic Fest 2012 Review: RED DAWN is Young, Dumb and Full of Commies
Dan Bradley's directorial debut resurrects xenophobic fears that all Asians are scary Communists hell-bent on world domination (and the notion that they all look the same) in his lame duck remake to John Milius' 80s original. A victim of MGM... More »
  

Fantastic Fest 2012 Review: CRAVE Fails To Satisfy
Crave is the feature debut of Charles de Lauzirika, a man best (un)known for directing/producing DVD special features. So what, you say? Sew buttons on a dead hobo's suit! You know you love yourself some special features, and Charles is... More »
  

Fantastic Fest: Ernesto Diaz Espinoza Drunkenly Reviews Ernesto Diaz Espinoza's BRING ME THE HEAD OF THE MACHINE GUN WOMAN
Hello. My name is Ernesto Diaz Espinoza, just five short of TEQUILA swallow, and I'm the director of the stunning, beautiful, sexy, hot, crazy, fun to blow your brain, and LATINXPLOITATION masterpiece of the genre, the now famous movie esquicita... More »
  

Fantastic Fest 2012 Review: THE FINAL MEMBER Grips You By The Short Hairs
In a year full of great docs this Fantastic Fest entry has managed to create some substantial buzz, which comes as little surprise considering the photo accompanying the online press materials showed a group of severed animal phalluses arranged neatly... More »
  

Fantastic Fest: Øystein Karlsen Drunkenly Reviews Øystein Karlsen's FUCK UP
The best thing about this movie is definitely the all the different teams in both grades and the Building up of the film. It seems so mom author has complete control over the way layer upon layer of history and... More »
  

Fantastic Fest 2012 Review: TAPED Captures Tightly Wound Thrills
Dutch director Diederik Van Rooijen delivers a stripped-down, no-nonsense chase thriller through deepest darkest Argentina, boasting tight, assured direction and a pair of knockout central performances. Being in the wrong place at the wrong time, and witness to something... More »
  

Fantastic Fest 2012 Review: BRING ME THE HEAD OF THE MACHINE GUN WOMAN is Sexy Violent Fun

There are few filmmakers who know how to create as much onscreen fun with as small of a budget as Chilean writer/director Ernesto Diaz Espinoza. With 70s cinematic sensibilities, funk-filled soundtracks, and always awesome action, Mirageman and Mandrill were fun-packed... More »
  

Fantastic Fest 2012 Review: COLD STEEL Shoots For Romance As Well As Action
David Wu, long-time editor of Hong Kong action auteur John Woo, returns to feature filmmaking with this spirited war-time thriller that supplants nationalistic breast-beating with action and romance to mostly positive effect. At the height of the Sino-Japanese War,... More »
  

Fantastic Fest: Javier Diment Drunkenly Reviews Javier Diment's LA MEMORIA DEL MUERTO
This is ua horror film of perono is a horror movie. It's something else. Is a series of family dramas, is also the will to find that the horror genre is just a way to talk of human pain. Really... More »
  

Fantastic Fest 2012 Review: FLICKER Reinvigorates Swedish Ensemble Comedies
A delightfully droll ensemble comedy, Flicker (AKA Flimmer) comfortably mixes laugh-out-loud moments with empathetic observations about life in a moderately-sized Swedish town that is dominated by a telecommunications company. Writer/director Patrick Eklund presents a cross-section of people whose lives are... More »
  

Fantastic Fest: Yamaguchi Yudai Drunkenly Reviews Yamaguchi Yudai's TEBANA SANKICHI
Tebana Sankichi in is a feature-length shorts made ​​by independent production 20 years ago. Tebana Sankichi is a comedy, rather than the usual comedy, it is a work that depicted the successive episodes put on rock music of the 70's... More »
  

Fantastic Fest: Steffen Haars Drunkenly Reviews NEW KIDS NITRO
Hello, my name is in its steffen. Thanks for the free 5 twitchfilm.com vodka for writing this review drunk my own movie New Kids Nitro. I'm not very good at the moment because I spent the afternoon / evening beer... More »
  
 
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