Written by Anna Harrison 65/100 Video game adaptations are practically always hit-or-miss, and they tend to lean (very) heavily into the “miss” category (see: Super Mario Bros., Mortal Kombat, Warcraft, etc.); while Werewolves Within doesn’t entirely buck this trend, it … Continue reading.
Fantasia 2021 Film Festival Review: Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes
Written by Patrick Hao 73/100 Not to be Christopher Nolan, but movies can function as a magic trick. Sure, you can start poking around any logical fallacies or explanations, but to truly enjoy the experience is to allow yourself to … Continue reading.
Fantasia Film Festival 2021 Review: Art Kabuki
Written by Anna Harrison 85/100 “What makes us artists continue performing?” asks the beginning of Art Kabuki. It’s a question that has been posed for years and years, but one made more urgent than ever by the recent pandemic, which … Continue reading.
Val
Written by Alexander Reams 68/100 “I went from being the star of the play, to playing the character that was the butt of every joke,” a very begrudging Val Kilmer says as he discusses his first breakthrough at Julliard Acting … Continue reading.
Annette
Written by Taylor Baker 80/100 The Mael Brother's long awaited cinematic foray happens to coincide with the same year that beloved filmmaker Edgar Wright released his aptly titled The Sparks Brothers documentary detailing the loose threads, songs, and albums along … Continue reading.
Respect
Written by Patrick Hao 45/100 Genre and tropes can be a beautiful thing. They become tropes because emotionally and story-wise they work like gangbusters. But Respect is so devoted to the tropes of the music biopic that it starts becoming … Continue reading.
MCU Retrospective: Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Written by Anna Harrison In these retrospectives, Anna will be looking back on the Marvel Cinematic Universe, providing context around the films, criticizing them, pointing out their groundwork for the future, and telling everyone her favorite scene, because her opinion … Continue reading.
Tokyo Sonata
Written by Michael Clawson 90/100 Rather than filing into the stream of Tokyo office workers headed to their desks like he used to each morning, Ryūhei Sasaki (Teruyuki Kagawa) suddenly finds himself routinely getting in line at his neighborhood soup … Continue reading.
Bentonville Film Festival 2021 Capsule Review: Catch the Fair One
Written by Alexander Reams 38/100 While recently becoming a meme thanks to the long going Fast & Furious franchise, family truly is one of the strongest bonds in life. A love for one's family can blind the person from reality. … Continue reading.
Fantasia Film Festival 2021 Interview: Richard Bates Jr. Talks “King Knight”
Interview by Anna Harrison Fantasia Film Festival 2021 Director Richard Bates Jr., known for his horror-comedies such as Excision and Suburban Gothic, recently had his latest film, King Knight, premiere at the Fantasia Film Festival. He sat down to talk … Continue reading.
