The Fantastic Golem Affairs
| C | Fantastic Fest 2023 | As promised by the trailer, an absurd comedy. And it made me laugh out loud a couple of times. But many of those…
The Last Video Store
| B | Fantastic Fest 2023 | Great fun! The main actor actually owns the last video store in Edmonton, Alberta, and his friends have been making short films about…
The Toxic Avenger
| A- | Fantastic Fest 2023 | World premiere at Fantastic Fest! In attendance were Macon Blair (director of this reboot) and Lloyd Kaufman (co-writer/co-director of the 1984 original, and…
Backwards Faces
| B | Other Worlds 2022 | A clever film, examining the human impact of the “many worlds” quantum theory (where all possible outcomes have happened in one parallel universe…
Violent Night
| A- | Other Worlds 2022 | The festival could not get the opening night movie to play (something in the digital protection could not be unlocked), so they persuaded…
Little Jar
| B+ | Austin Film Festival 2022 | From all the AFF movie trailers I could find, I was looking forward to this film the most. And it was marvelous.…
Blow Up My Life
| C+ | Austin Film Festival 2022 | I knew we were in trouble about three minutes in. The movie starts with the main character in a graveyard (during the…
Quicksand
| B- | Austin Film Festival 2022 | There were some funny things in this movie, though more of them appeared in the end than the beginning. If more of…
Daniel’s Gotta Die
| B+ | Austin Film Festival 2022 | Funny. Definitely a dark comedy, but I love those. This is one of those movies where most of the characters are scheming…
Beauty Of A Blank Space
| B | Austin Film Festival 2022 | An endearing road trip movie where the two main characters find themselves along the way. The type of indie film I’m always…