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Reviews: The Late Show – Physical Release

August 12, 2026

Final Rating: 3.5/5 Blu-ray Recommendation: Recommend When the New Hollywood era kicked off in the late 1960s, conventional ways of telling stories in film…

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…

Reviews: Misterio (Studio Q) from Fantasia Festival 2026

August 4, 2026

Final Rating: 4/5 In film history, female filmmakers were anecdotes. Despite being pioneers, they are relegated to side notes in favor of the canon….

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….

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….

Reviews: No Rest for the Wicked from Fantasia Festival 2026

July 30, 2026

Final Rating: 4.5/5 Composer Hettarher’s spare, moody music opens the tale with ominous tones, which swath a rugged seaside draped in near-darkness – pink…

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…

Reviews: Pontypool from Fantasia Festival 2026

July 27, 2026

Final Rating: 4.5/5 Early on in Bruce McDonald’s 2008 film Pontypool, playing at Fantasia Festival, our protagonist Grant Mazzy (Stephen McHattie), asks the philosophical…

Reviews: The Outer Threat

July 23, 2026

Final Rating: 2/5 William Woods’ directorial debut, The Outer Threat, follows a family of four after the parents discover evidence of extraterrestrial life. This…

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…