The Ice Queens
| B | Austin Film Festival 2016 | The script readings are always fun. I really hope this gets made into a real movie. It sounds very visual and actually…
Colossal
| A+ | Fantastic Fest 2016 | What a tremendous film! I was telling someone earlier that this being a genre festival, good characters are often set aside to make…
Don’t Kill It
| B- | Fantastic Fest 2016 | This was a serviceable horror-comedy. I liked the premise of the body-hopping demon. There were the typical kinds of problems for this type…
The Greasy Strangler
| D | Fantastic Fest 2016 | Ah, my first disappointment of the festival... I was excited about this one because I'd seen the trailer a couple months ago and…
The Autopsy of Jane Doe
| B | Fantastic Fest 2016 | Despite guessing part of the ending halfway through and a line near the end that almost ruined it completely for me, I still…
Safe Neighborhood
| B | Fantastic Fest 2016 | This was a well-done film with good surprises. Also a couple of "why didn't you...?" moments, but they were minor. Fun if you…
Shin Godzilla
| B | Fantastic Fest 2016 | Wow, what an interesting film... A fascinating incarnation of Godzilla--just not enough of him on the screen. A huge percentage of the movie…
Contratiempo (The Invisible Guest)
| A- | Fantastic Fest 2016 | And the hits just keep on coming. This was an excellent mystery. It starts out slow and much as you would expect. Then…
Split
| A | Fantastic Fest 2016 | For the first time, I took a chance on a Secret Screening, and glad I did. M. Night Shyamalan has returned to his…
Down Under
| A | Fantastic Fest 2016 | The festival started great for me! This film was hilarious with these racist idiots getting themselves into ridiculous trouble. And some serious moments,…