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Reviews: Cuckoo from Fantasia Festival 2024

July 31, 2024

Final Rating: 4/5 A famous aspect of the cuckoo bird is brood parasitism, which is found in all members of the Cuculidae family. Brood…

Reviews: Infinite Summer from Fantasia Festival 2024

July 30, 2024

Final Rating: 2.5/5 At times, Miguel Llansó’s Infinite Summer is a character study, a conspiracy thriller, a wistful teen comedy, and a buddy cop…

Reviews: Kizumonogatari – Koyomi Vamp from Fantasia Festival 2024

July 29, 2024

Final Rating: 2/5 One day, while walking through the subway, Koyomi Araragi (Hiroshi Kamiya) encounters a vampire at the end of her life. Despite…

Reviews: The Silent Planet from Fantasia Festival 2024

July 25, 2024

Final Rating: 4/5 Sometime in the near future aliens have come to live on earth because for whatever reason, their home planet is now…

Reviews: Tribeca Round Up – Part 1

July 3, 2024

With this year’s Tribeca film festival now wrapped here are the first pair of feature reviews, New Wave and Bitterroot along with three short films.

Reviews: The Fix

July 1, 2024

The Fix is a fun action romp that has just enough body horror to keep you on the edge of your seat. It’s a throwback to films from the 80’s and 90’s.

Reviews: Daddio

June 28, 2024

Daddio, is a character driven slow burn, the latest from director/writer Christy Hall starring Dakota Johnson and Sean Penn.

Reviews: Jeanne Du Barry

June 25, 2024

The historical romance film Jeanne du Barry is clearly a passion project for director Maïwenn, but ironically, passion is the thing most absent in the film.

Reviews: Don’t Call It Mystery From Toronto Japanese Film Festival 2024

June 20, 2024

Totonō, is a socially awkward student with a Sherlock Holmes-like knack for observation. On a trip to Hiroshima, he is enlisted to help solve a family feud.

Reviews: Missing From Toronto Japanese Film Festival 2024

June 19, 2024

Miu, the daughter of Saori and Yutaka has been missing for six months. Every day, the couple spend their time after work distributing flyers in the town square.