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Tag: Fantasia Festival

Reviews: Darkest Miriam from Fantasia Festival 2024

August 16, 2024

Final Rating: 3/5 Working in a quiet downtown branch of the Toronto Public Library, librarian Miriam (Britt Lower) finds purpose observing the regulars and…

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Reviews: Electrophilia from Fantasia Festival 2024

August 2, 2024

Final Rating: 3.5/5 What happens when you survive a traumatic unexpected event? Do you gather yourself together and overcome any new fears you might…

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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…

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Talk To Me

248: 2023 Fantasia Film Festival Wrap Up

August 15, 2023

For the third year in a row we are covering Montreal’s Fantasia Film Festival, which celebrates the best in horror and genre cinema with an emphasis on international movies.

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Adams Family

247: Fantasia Fest Interviews – Satan Wants You and Where The Devil Roams Directors

August 8, 2023

Fantasia Festival is still going on, but we had the chance to interview two sets of directors who had their films screening at this years fest!

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Sometimes I Think About Dying

Reviews: Sometimes I Think About Dying From Fantasia Festival 2023

August 7, 2023

Sometimes I Think About Dying, starring Daisy Ridley, is a small film that will leave a big impression on viewers and stick in their minds the rest of the year.

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river Junta Yamagouchi

Reviews: river From Fantasia Festival 2023

August 3, 2023

Time travel movies are a tricky beast. That hasn’t stopped Japanese filmmaker Junta Yamaguchi, whose first film Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes completely reinvigorated the genre.

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A Disturbance in the Force

Reviews: A Disturbance in the Force: How the Star Wars Holiday Special Happened From Fantasia Festival 2023

July 30, 2023

In what became a lesson in being careful what you wished for, viewers were instead “treated” to the now infamous The Star Wars Holiday Special. What makes it so special is that after a single airing on TV, everyone realized how terrible it was and was never screened again.

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Baby Assassins 2 Babies

Reviews: Baby Assassins 2 Babies from Fantasia Festival 2023

July 29, 2023

At last year’s Fantasia Festival we covered a Japanese action comedy called Baby Assassins, about two girls fresh out of high school who work as hired assassins. This year we get treated to its sequel Baby Assassins 2 Babies at the same festival.

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Where The Devil Roams

Reviews: Where the Devil Roams From Fantasia Festival 2023

July 28, 2023

With the release of their 7th feature film, Where The Devil Roams, the Adams Family have returned to Fantasia for the third time and brought their DIY horror aesthetic with them yet again.

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