Bucky F*cking Dent
| A- | Austin Film Festival 2023 | So well done! A beautiful and touching script. Excellent acting. (Stephanie Beatriz had one particularly notable scene.) Overall an impressive movie from…
Egghead & Twinkie
| B+ | Austin Film Festival 2023 | A delightful movie! Excellent script full of emotional truths. Wonderful acting. Interesting visual style with so many surreal, fun insertions. And overall…
The Book Of Solutions
| C+ | Fantastic Fest 2023 | I'm always wary of stories that require context. I'd read all the fest's films' descriptions two weeks ago, so by the time I…
River
| B+ | Fantastic Fest 2023 | This film was done by the same group who did the marvelous Beyond The Infinite Two Minutes that played at Fantastic Fest two…
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.…