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Fantasia 2024: BLACK EYED SUSAN Red Band Trailer, Scooter McCrae Returns After 25 Years
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CW: Domestic abuse, realistic violence Exploitation icon Scooter McCrae is back behind the camera with Black Eyed Susan, his first feature film since 1999's Sixteen Tongues. After having directed a few shorts and doing a bit of acting in the...
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Fantasia 2024 Review: LANTERN BLADE, Stop-Motion Martial Arts Series Delights And Impresses
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Lantern Blade is a web-seires directed by Zhu Ziqi at Mote Stop Motion Animation studio in China. Lantern Blade is part of the Tencent Video Original Animation Short Film Collection, an anthology with a stop-mo program. It was released in...
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Friday One Sheet: Trieste Science+Fiction Festival
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The 24th edition of the Trieste Science+Fiction Festival gets a gorgeous illustration and design from Italian cartoonist Zerocalcare. Parasols, lanterns, and a jackhammer frame the characters from vastly different walks of life as twin moons fade off into the distance. ...
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Fantasia 2024: NIGHT FISHING Short Film, Short Review
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The award winning Sci fi-Action short film, Night Fishing, from Byoung-gon Moon played to an appreciative crowd before the other night's screening of The Roundup: Punishment. Moon takes home the award for Best Editing at this year’s festival and we got...
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KNEECAP Review: Anti-Imperialist Dramedy with Rap, Sex and (Possibly) Record Breaking Cursing
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The winner of this year’s Sundance Audience Award is hitting theaters and, just as the name of the prize suggests, it's bound to be a major delight for viewers. Rich Peppiatt’s Kneecap, a feature debut film about an actual Irish...
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TRAP Review: M. Night Shyamalan’s Serial Killer Thriller Gleefully Embraces Genre Absurdities
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Writer-director M. Night Shyamalan (Knocking at the Cabin, Old, Glass) and narrative logic have rarely been on speaking terms. Shyamalan has been downright antagonistic toward narrative logic. A filmmaker more often concerned with the effects individual scenes and sequences can...
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Fantasia 2024 Review: BRUSH OF THE GOD, A Charming Elegiac Ode To Kaiju Films Of The Past
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A teenage girl and her geeky friend must use a magic paintbrush to save the world from killer kaiju in eighty-eight-year-old Murase Keizô’s debut feature, Brush of the God. Akari’s (Suzuki Rio) grandfather has just passed away and she doesn’t...
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Fantasia 2024 Review: TIMESTALKER, Alice Lowe Chases The Love of Their Lives
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They say "You'll find love when you stop looking for it." Well, I can tell you from experience that I stopped a long time ago and either I’m not looking very well or it’s complete bullshit.    On the other...
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THE INSTIGATORS Review: Bungling Criminals in Supposed Comedy
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Matt Damon and Casey Affleck star in Doug Liman's knockabout action comedy about a bungled robbery, featuring an all-star supporting cast and a lot of smashed vehicles. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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Exclusive: Dark Star Acquires Alice Maio Mackey’s SATRANIC PANIC And CARNAGE FOR CHRISTMAS
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ScreenAnarchy has the first word about two acquisitions from our friends at Dark Star Pictures. The outlet has once again picked up two films from Australian trans director Alice Maio Mackay.   Today they're announcing the acquisition of Satranic Panic and...
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