Smoking Causes Coughing
| B | Fantastic Fest 2022 | SMOKING CAUSES COUGHING This writer/director (Quentin Dupieux) definitely makes odd films. I found this one to be more grounded than his others I’ve…
Nova
| C- | Other Worlds 2021 | This movie was exceedingly mediocre. I could rant here about the script and the acting, but that would feel like kicking someone when…
Ultrasound
| B+ | Other Worlds 2021 | Best of the films I caught live at the festival (though I'll get to catch others streaming over the next week). A film…
The Alternate
| B | Other Worlds 2021 | I will say up front that the origin of the portal is strange (and unique), but the care taken in the lead-up to…
Blank
| C- | Other Worlds 2021 | I liked the vision the director had for this film and the style of the images I saw on the screen. And I…
Madelines
| C+ | Other Worlds 2021 | The premise sounded interesting: Madeline and Owen have invented time travel, but after discovering a mistake in the code that causes a copy…
Spaghetti Junction
| B- | Austin Film Festival 2021 | I feel the festival blurb for this film was a bit misleading, pitching it as supernatural and a struggle against a strange…
The Timekeepers Of Eternity
| B | Fantastic Fest 2021 | This film was definitely experimental. It took the 1995 TV mini-series The Langoliers (based on Steven King's novella From Four Past Midnight), prints…
Beyond The Infinite Two Minutes
| A- | Fantastic Fest 2021 | I love a good twisty time movie! And this sub-genre of "peek into the future" (but no one actually travels through time) is,…
Glasshouse
| B | Fantastic Fest 2021 | This one is a real thinker. No so much slow as subtle--you really have to pay attention to catch little things. And turned…