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…
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,…
Heard She Got Married
| B | Fantastic Fest 2022 | I had time for one more film before the final FF@Home movies expired. Having just enjoyed Magic Spot, I decided to watch this…
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…
Shin Ultraman
| B- | Fantastic Fest 2022 | I enjoyed Shin Godzilla when I saw it at Fantastic Fest (good lord, six years ago?). So with this film coming from the…
Bad City
| B | Fantastic Fest 2022 | Fun Japanese gangster action movie. A convicted ex-cop released on temporary parole to lead a special task force to halt a feud between…
Give Me Pity!
| C | Fantastic Fest 2022 | Unfortunately, I watched this one almost immediately after All Jacked Up And Full Of Worms. They were similar in that both deteriorated into…
All Jacked Up And Full Of Worms
| D | Fantastic Fest 2022 | From the description and trailer, there are pretty much only two ways this movie could go--super fantastic or huge letdown. It was the…
Country Gold
| C | Fantastic Fest 2022 | This writer/director has a distinctive, I would say odd, voice. The film was at turns surreal or absurd or philosophical or a fever…
Sick Of Myself
| B+ | Fantastic Fest 2022 | A marvelous black comedy! The tone was perfect. Such awful things were happening and I was laughing the whole way through it. It's…