“Washington Black” is a wonderment, combining the harshness of history and the fuel of steampunk with the many sides of love, into the tale of a lionhearted legend.
We are only three days into Fantasia 2025, and we may already have one of the festival’s most controversial selections in director Izabel Pakzad’s harrowing revenge thriller, Find Your Friends. When a squad of Gen Z besties make the trek...
Teenage rebellion threatens centuries of tradition when young Cleo questions her place in a long line of powerful circus performers in Jody Wilson’s feature directing debut, The Bearded Girl, celebrating its world premiere at Fantasia 2025. In an idyllic rural...
When her sister goes missing, Ju-young (Lee Sun-bin) leaps in to investigate, but what she discovers is an apartment complex with a sinister history of death and disappearance, and it all seems connected to the mysterious noises that are driving...
The 2025 edition of the Fantasia International Film Festival got off to a hell of a start with the opening day world premiere of William Bagley’s suburbanites vs. monsters from hell horror comedy, Hold the Fort. Freshly christened homeowners, Lucas...
If you're a fan of Mexican filmmaker Gigi Saul Guerrero like we are, then you will already know that the other week they launched their latest short film, El lazo de Petra, back home in Mexico. You will also know...
With the Fantasia Int'l Film Festival in full swing the promotion of titles picks up. Today, the festival poster for Julie Pacino's psychodrama, I LIve Here Now, has arrived. Our own Kurt included I Like Here Now in our...
Opening with the most tranquil of public swimming pools, a few swimmers go about their routine under the blazing hot sun in stark contrast to the attention-grabbing, but mechanically disjointed, text-to-speech of the National Weather Service warning broadcast blaring from...