Bone Lake
| B+ | Fantastic Fest 2024 | This movie switched gears (genres) several times, to good effect. It started out as an interesting psychological, cat-and-mouse thriller. (They bill themselves as…
Ick
| B | Fantastic Fest 2024 | I mostly saw this film because a friend of mine is a huge Superman fan (and this starred Brandon Routh), so I wanted…
Baby Assassins Nice Days
| B+ | Fantastic Fest 2024 | I finally got to see a Baby Assassins movie at Fantastic Fest! In 2021 I was intrigued by the description of the first…
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…
Sunset Superman
| B | Fantastic Fest 2024 | A solid, independent comedy. And yes, named for the Ronnie James Dio song, for which they got the rights to use. Comedy: Definitely…
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 Rule of Jenny Pen
| B- | Fantastic Fest 2024 | The acting was excellent. As you would expect from Geoffrey Rush and John Lithgow. And the director’s style was interesting—good composition in many…
The Hidden Web
| B | Austin Film Festival 2023 | An engaging mystery. It seemed slow at times, but paid off with the twists and the gruesome depiction of the crimes underneath…
Don’t Tell Larry
| B | Austin Film Festival 2023 | A funny farce that keeps throwing obstacle after obstacle at the protagonists. Several times I was thinking, “Whew, they solved that prob—wait,…
Bolt From The Blue
| C | Austin Film Festival 2023 | During their brief introduction, the writer/director and the producer told us this was a family friendly movie. Unfortunately that seems to mean…