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…
Strange Darling
| A- | Fantastic Fest 2023 | This cut of the film started out very cleverly, which you won't get to see once the movie is released. The first frames…
Where The Devil Roams
| B | Fantastic Fest 2023 | This film was made by a family of three. Looks to be a couple and their (now college-aged) daughter, and they just pull…
Divinity
| F | Fantastic Fest 2023 | On the plus side, Scott Bakula played a supporting role. On the minus side, everything else. This was the most self-indulgent crap I've…
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…
Between Before
| C | Other Worlds 2022 | A disappointing ending to the festival. I just couldn’t buy into everything that was going on. I was fine with the science fiction…
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…
Influencer
| B+ | Other Worlds 2022 | Great indie film full of talented people. The script (co-written by the director) was top-notch, with plenty of subtlety and unexpected turns. I…
Echelon
| C | Other Worlds 2022 | Kudos to this pair who wrote, directed, started in, ran cameras for, did post-production of—pretty much everything for this movie—during COVID. And they…
Polaris
| C | Other Worlds 2022 | Beautifully filmed. Intriguing approach to dialog (all made up language for this post-apocalyptic future). Nice use of the polar bear. And another kid…