22nd Sep2023

Fantasia 2023: ‘Transylvanie’ Review (Short)

by Phil Wheat

Stars: Katell Varvat, Lucien Le Ho, Emma Gautier, Marylou Sampeur, Théodore Laloe, Djack Hazan-Guéguin | Written by Rodrigue Huart, David A. Cassan, Axel Wursten | Directed by Rodrigue Huart Ewa is a lonely 10-year-old girl who believes she is a vampire. She longs to vampirize a neighbourhood boy for companionship and devises a plan to […]

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14th Aug2023

Fantasia 2023: ‘Apocalypse Clown’ Review

by Alain Elliott

Stars: David Earl, Natalie Palamides, Amy De Bhrún, Fionn Foley, Tadhg Murphy, Ivan Kaye | Written by Shane O’Brien, James Walmsley, Demian Fox | Directed by George Kane There are quite a few movies with two things that I wouldn’t put together normally that get thrust into each other for our entertainment. Mega Shark Vs […]

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11th Aug2023

Fantasia 2023: ‘Aporia’ Review

by Alain Elliott

Stars: Judy Greer, Edi Gathegi, Payman Maadi, Faithe Herman, Whitney Morgan Cox, Veda Cienfuegos | Written and Directed by Jared Moshé Aporia is the second film I have watched in the last few weeks which has kind of tackled time travel but not been what most people would call a time travel movie. And that’s no […]

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07th Aug2023

Fantasia 2023: ‘Sympathy For the Devil’ Review

by Kevin Haldon

Stars: Nicolas Cage, Joel Kinnaman, Kaiwi Lyman | Written by Luke Paradise | Directed by Yuval Adler Well, my friends… Another day, another Nicholas Cage movie. I seriously don’t know why I do it to myself, but every time I see a Cage movie appear, well I just can’t help myself. I have to watch […]

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31st Jul2023

Fantasia 2023: ‘Hundreds of Beavers’ Review

by Jim Morazzini

Stars: Ryland Brickson Cole Tews, Doug Mancheski, Olivia Graves, Wes Tank, Luis Rico | Written by Ryland Brickson Cole Tews, Mike Cheslik | Directed by Mike Cheslik When my partner asked me what I was doing tonight perhaps “checking out Hundreds of Beavers” wasn’t the best of all possible answers. And I suppose trying to […]

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25th Jul2023

Fantasia 2023: ‘Stay Online’ Review

by Alain Elliott

Stars: Hordii Dziubynskyi, Roman Liakh, Oleksandr Rudynskyi, Yelyzaveta Zaitseva, Olesia Zhurakivska | Written by Anton Skrypets, Eva Strelnikova | Directed by Eva Strelnikova It’s a brave director and film-making team that make a film set in and during the current Ukraine and Russia war. But that is the exciting and terrifying prospect we have with […]

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24th Jul2023

Fantasia 2023: ‘Lovely, Dark, and Deep’ Review

by Alain Elliott

Stars: Georgina Campbell, Maria de Sá, Nick Blood, Wai Ching Ho, Soren Hellerup, Ana Sofia Martins, Edgar Morais | Written and Directed by Teresa Sutherland Coming from the writer of recent slow-burn horror The Wind, the slightly oddly-titled Lovely, Dark and Deep, tells the story of a park ranger looking for answers from a childhood […]

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24th Jul2023

Fantasia 2023: ‘Shin Kamen Rider’ Review

by Jim Morazzini

Stars: Sôsuke Ikematsu, Shin’ya Tsukamoto, Minami Hamabe, Mirai Moriyama, Tasuku Emoto, Nanase Nishino | Written and Directed by Hideaki Anno The third entry in the Shin Japan Heroes Universe, Shin Kamen Rider, steps away from the kaiju-oriented plots of Shin Godzilla and Shin Ultraman to let writer/director Hideaki Anno, the driving force behind the Shin […]

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14th Jul2023

Fantasia Film Festival 2023 – Phil’s Top 5 Picks!

by Phil Wheat

It’s July, so you know what that means… Fantasia International Film Festival time! Kicking off our Summer of film festival coverage, Fantasia is ALWAYS packed with a vast variety of films, from action to horror, drama to comedy, the festival covers the gamut of genres and offers films that [I think] no other festival does. […]

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03rd Jul2023

Fantasia Film Festival 2023 – Alan’s First Picks of the Fest!

by Alain Elliott

My favourite film festival is back for another year! With its wide variety of films, spanning almost every genre, there’s literally a film for everyone, and this year’s Fantasia is no different. Although the full line-up has yet to be announced, he’s a handful of the movies to be looking out for already. Lovely, Dark […]

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