Ikatan Darah
| B | Fantastic Fest 2025 | Another good action movie. Good fights. Some amped-up bad guys. Plenty of blood. And boy, did these filmmakers love breaking furniture! One interesting…
Deathstalker
| B | Fantastic Fest 2025 | This was a goofy but fun sword-and-sorcery adventure. A few unique things in it. Felt a little long. But I did enjoy it.…
Sisu: Road to Revenge
| B | Fantastic Fest 2025 | A marvelous action movie. A sequel, but no need to see the first one to get what's going on. Minimal dialog. None for…
Penance
| C | Fantastic Fest 2025 | This film was made by a stuntman and a bunch of his stunt-friends he pulled together. For $7,000. Yes, that few zeros. I…
Chocolate
| B | Fantastic Fest 2025 | For a movie made in 2008 it had a very 70s feel. I assume that was intentional by the director. Much of it…
The Forbidden City
| B+ | Fantastic Fest 2025 | There was a lot going on in this movie. Martial arts, both Italian and Chinese crime families, romance—all going on in the multi-cultural…
Road to Vendetta
| B | Fantastic Fest 2025 | A fun martial arts action movie with an actual story (not just skipping from fight sequence to fight sequence). The premise starts with…
I, The Executioner
| B | Fantastic Fest 2024 | A very good Korean cop thriller. I enjoyed the characters and the crime they were investigating. There was one twist I guessed early…
Baby Assassins Nice Days
| B+ | Fantastic Fest 2024 | I finally got to see a Baby Assassins movie at Fantastic Fest! In 2021 I was intrigued by the description of the first…
Sunset Superman
| B | Fantastic Fest 2024 | A solid, independent comedy. And yes, named for the Ronnie James Dio song, for which they got the rights to use. Comedy: Definitely…