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Dispatch: With Two Action-Packed Japanese Genre Films, Fantastic Fest Kicks Off on the Right Foot

For nearly 20 years, the Austin, Texas, based Fantastic Fest has grown to be the largest genre film festival in the country, bringing films from both new directors and veteran […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • September 23, 2024
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Josh Radnor Charms in All Happy Families, a Familiar Drama with Relatable Irony

    This review was written by Tory Crowley. Watching All Happy Families, the latest film from co-writer/director Haroula Rose, feels comfortingly familiar. It’s set on the North side of Chicago in […]

  • Tory Crowley
  • September 20, 2024
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Fantastic Fest Review: Halle Berry Stars in Never Let Go, a Folk Horror Film That Obscures the Truth

    One of the big opening night offerings at this year’s Fantastic Fest in Austin, Texas (more coverage to come from easily one of the highest-profile genre festivals in the world) […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • September 20, 2024
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Demi Moore in the Role of a Lifetime in Body Horror Beauty Industry Satire The Substance

    Snagging a Best Screenplay award at this year’s Cannes Film Festival and giving Demi Moore arguably the best role of her career, The Substance hits like a hammer with its […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • September 20, 2024
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Animated Origin Story Transformers One Brings Heart and Character Depth to Robot Franchise

    I’m just the age where Transformers of any kind (the Hasbro toys, animated series, the many movies) didn’t really have much of an impact on me. As a result, familiar […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • September 20, 2024
    • Film , Film & TV , Interview

    Interview: A Different Man Star Adam Pearson Discusses Playing a Character Close to Himself, Disability on Screen and More

    A Different Man, the latest film from writer/director Aaron Schimberg, seems to have been created based on the filmmaker’s working relationship with one of the movie’s stars, Adam Pearson, who […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • September 20, 2024
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Megan Fox Plays a Glitchy AI Servant in Subservience, a Thriller in Need of Reprogramming

    Oh M3GAN, what have you borne? Hot on the heals of the recent Afraid, which concerned AI run amuck in a family’s home (and was not screened for critics), comes […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • September 13, 2024
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Based on Familiar Young-Adult Dystopian Tropes, Uglies Fails to Give the Genre a Makeover

    For a young-adult story, the concept of Uglies is certainly intriguing, if somewhat familiar: in a post-scarcity dystopian future, everyone is considered an “ugly,” and the powers-that-be decide that if […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • September 13, 2024
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Kevin Smith Returns to His Roots in The 4:30 Movie, Coming of Age in the ’80s

    Except for the constant presence of supporting players who have all worked with writer/director Kevin Smith in some capacity in the last 30 years, the filmmaker’s latest work, The 4:30 […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • September 12, 2024
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Look Into My Eyes Offers a Glimpse into the Psyche of Those Who Hire Psychics

    Directed by Lana Wilson (the Taylor Swift doc Miss Americana, and the Brooke Shields profile Pretty Baby), Look Into My Eyes is a truly fascinating examination of psychics/mediums living in […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • September 12, 2024
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Speak No Evil Offers a Slightly Milder Adaptation of a Thriller Where Manners Matter

    Shortly after watching Speak No Evil, I went back to my original review of the 2022 Danish horror sensation of the same name directed by Christian Tafdrup, and noticed that […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • September 12, 2024
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Documentary Seeking Mavis Beacon Chronicles a Filmmaker’s Journey to Find a Digital Icon

    For millions of would-be typing students in the late 1980s through the 1990s, the educational software known as Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing instructed people around the world using a digital […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • September 6, 2024
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