Blow Up My Life
| C+ | Austin Film Festival 2022 | I knew we were in trouble about three minutes in. The movie starts with the main character in a graveyard (during the…
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…
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…
The Antares Paradox
| C- | Fantastic Fest 2022 | God damn it… This was such a mixed movie. I hardly know how to grade it. I liked the main character (Alexandra) a…
Nova
| C- | Other Worlds 2021 | This movie was exceedingly mediocre. I could rant here about the script and the acting, but that would feel like kicking someone when…
Blank
| C- | Other Worlds 2021 | I liked the vision the director had for this film and the style of the images I saw on the screen. And I…
Madelines
| C+ | Other Worlds 2021 | The premise sounded interesting: Madeline and Owen have invented time travel, but after discovering a mistake in the code that causes a copy…
Name Above Title
| C- | Fantastic Fest 2021 | Yet another experimental film at this festival, but this one less successful. There is almost no dialog in the film (once it was…
Alone With You
| C- | Fantastic Fest 2021 | This film started out promising, building up an interesting mystery that is probably supernatural, teasing out possible clues or at least strange occurrences.…
Let The Wrong One In
| C | Fantastic Fest 2021 | No trailer was available, but there were several things to give me high hopes for this movie: Irish comedy, title referencing one of…