Night Patrol
| C+ | Fantastic Fest 2025 | I really wrestled with this movie. The first half was already a mixed bag. Some interesting characters and good humor. But also some…
Mother of Flies
| B+ | Fantastic Fest 2025 | These filmmakers are a family of four (and their friends) who decide they are going to make a movie and work hard and…
Apartment 7A
| B+ | Fantastic Fest 2024 | As this film went on, I kept feeling like it was a remake of a classic film from the past, (with a more…
Dead Talents Society
| A | Fantastic Fest 2024 | A delightful comedy! And so many marvelous aspects to it. I'm extremely impressed with the director/co-writer, who mixed so many different styles into…
Ghost Killer
| B+ | Fantastic Fest 2024 | From the same director, fight choreographer, and one star of the Baby Assassins franchise, which I love. An absurd setup that leads to…
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…
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…
The Bystanders
| B | Austin Film Festival 2022 | An amusing movie about our guardian angels, with the tag line "They watch over us but they can't stand us." Occasionally laugh-out-loud,…
Magic Spot
| B | Fantastic Fest 2022 | There's a group of folks (a troupe, perhaps) that call themselves Motern Media. Magic Spot was my first experience with them even though…
He’s Dead & So Am I
| B | Austin Film Festival 2021 | A goofy comedy about two ghosts trapped in Purgatory, which means they're stuck where they died until they prove whether they should…