Fantasia International Film Festival 2024 - Most likely, we're going to continue to see films that deal with AI and raise even bigger questions regarding transhumanism and merging our minds and potentially our bodies with machines. As much as it's fair to have legitimate gripes about AI, it's certainly not going away. Writer/director Miguel Llansó's [...]

Fantasia International Film Festival 2023 - Somehow, the Adams Family managed to outdo their 2021 breakout hit Hellbender in terms of experimentation, weirdness, and visual nightmares. Where the Devil Roams is a bewitching feast, a 90-minute circus act where the devil comes to collect his due. It goes even further than the family's last film [...]

Fantasia International Film Festival 2023 - We all remember those early days of COVID. Even going to the grocery store felt dangerous, especially if someone nearby sneezed. While Vincent Must Die isn't a film about COVID, it resonates so much because of its portrayal of loneliness and isolation. Since we all lived through lockdowns, we [...]

Fantasia International Film Festival 2023 - Kudos to any movie bold enough to take one of the most famous phrases in modern American poetry and use it as a title. Yes, I'm referring to Robert Frost's poem "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening." It's a fitting poem in the context of writer/director Teresa Sutherland's [...]

Fantasia International Film Festival 2023 - White Noise barely relents in its 16 minutes. The short follows protagonist Ava (Bahia Watson), who is disturbed by sound. When she tries to address the problem through an experiment, it goes horribly wrong. This short  succeeds in illustrating Ava's deep discomfort and putting the audience squarely in her perspective, [...]

The time has finally arrived -- the curtains are rising on the 2023 Fantasia International Film Festival! This annual film festival is a celebration of unique cinematic experiences exploring extraordinary stories and worlds represented by a wide array of movie genres. Every year the selections for Fantasia International Film Festival push the boundaries of storytelling [...]

Fantasia International Film Festival (FIFF) - Cult Hero is one of the few horror-comedy features screening as part of the 2022 Fantasia International Film Festival. Directed, co-written, and starring Jesse T. Cook, Cult Hero took me by surprise with its obnoxiously lovable characters, its comically dark exploration of the nightmares of suburban life, and [...]