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Reviews: Self-Help from FrightFest 2025

August 25, 2025

Final Rating: 3/5 Not quite a movie about cults, not quite a home invasion movie, Self-Help, from director Erik Bloomquist, is inventively subversive in…

Reviews: Contact Lens from Fantasia Festival 2025

August 20, 2025

Final Rating: 4/5 Contact Lens begins with an unnamed woman putting in a contact lens as an alarm sound repeats in the background. As…

Reviews: The Woman from Fantasia Festival 2025

August 18, 2025

Final Rating: 1/5 In The Woman, Sun-kyung (Han Hye-ji) meets with an internet stranger, Young-hwan (Kim Hee-sang), offering a free cordless vacuum cleaner. But…

Reviews: Russians at War

August 15, 2025

Russians at War is a supposed impartial documentary about Russias invasion into Ukraine, that works better as a think piece than it does as a film.

Reviews: Suspended Time

August 14, 2025

Final Rating: 1.5/5 In the wake of any global event, countless pieces of media are made to reflect what life was like during it,…

Reviews: Stinker from Fantasia Festival 2025

August 13, 2025

Stinker is a light dramedy about an alien that lands in Kazakhstan and befriends a homeless man and grumpy elderly lady as they all learn to be friends.

Reviews: $POSITIONS from Fantasia Festival 2025

August 12, 2025

$POSITIONS uses cryptocurrency is used to show the new found way that addiction can take hold in people’s lives, especially in the form of gambling.

Reviews: The House With The Laughing Windows from Fantasia Festival 2025

August 11, 2025

The House With The Laughing Windows is a giallo film from 1976, that has been restored with its premiere at Fantasia before it will be released.

Reviews: Lurker from Fantasia Festival 2025

August 8, 2025

Lurker is a dark and disturbing look into celebrity obsession as a young man works his way into the entourage of an upcoming singer.

Reviews: Boys Go To Jupiter

August 7, 2025

Boys Go To Jupiter is a surrealist animated film that tackles the gig economy while casting a who’s who of indie comedy stars.