Reviews: God Skin from Fantasia Festival 2026 August 7, 2026 Final Rating: 2/5 In God Skin, which screened at Fantasia Festival, a Thai delivery boy becomes a cybernetically enhanced underground boxer to earn money… Continue Reading
Reviews: The Peril At Pincer Point from Fantasia Festival 2026 August 3, 2026 Final Rating: 2/5 The Peril at Pincer Point, playing at Fantasia Festival, is a low-budget absurdist throwback to mid-century monster movies and folk horror…. Continue Reading
Reviews: Sheep in the Box July 31, 2026 Final Rating: 3/5 In Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Sheep in the Box, a couple adopts a robot made to look and act like their deceased son…. Continue Reading
Reviews: Attack on Paradise from Fantasia Festival 2026 July 29, 2026 Final Rating: 1.5/5 Attack on Paradise, playing at Fantasia Festival, is an action thriller film, from director Bob Colaers, pitting an ex-con and a… Continue Reading
340: Interview with Shiho Kataoka of Aruku July 28, 2026 Aruku is a new documentary about the pilgrimage Japanese Buddhists make where they travel to Shikoku Island and visit 88 temples along their journey. The… Continue Reading
Reviews: You Are The Film from Fantasia Festival 2026 July 22, 2026 Final Rating: 2.5/5 You Are the Film, playing at Fantasia Festival, is a low-budget experimental dramedy about two people who discover that they are… Continue Reading
Reviews: Dance Freak from Fantasia Festival 2026 July 21, 2026 Final Rating: 3.5/5 Obie’s life sucks. His perverted boss just laid him off, even though he’s the only one who knows the codes. On… Continue Reading
Reviews: Tight Lettuce from Fantasia Festival 2026 July 20, 2026 Final Rating: 3/5 Tight Lettuce is a dark comedy showing the all-consuming nature of addiction, not for the addict, but for the people around… Continue Reading
Reviews: Aruku from TJFF 2026 July 17, 2026 Final Rating: 4/5 Shikoku Island in Japan is host to a multi-site pilgrimage of 88 Buddhist temples associated with the monk Kukai (also called… Continue Reading
Reviews: How Dare You from TJFF 2026 July 9, 2026 Final Rating: 4.5/5 How Dare You, directed by Mipo Oh, centres around Ueda Yuishi (Tetta Shimada), an elementary schooler who loves bugs and animals… Continue Reading
