Fantasia Review: Seobok
Humans are the only animals who contemplate their own mortality. I’m not quite sure how you could prove this, but as evolved sentient creatures we approach death with a mixture…
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Fantasia Review – Satoshi Kon: The Illusionist
When Satoshi Kon died from cancer at the age of 46 in 2010 the world lost one of the greatest living filmmakers. In a career which only lasted a decade,…
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Fantasia Review: Brain Freeze
Many of us, at one time or another, have made our escape plans should a zombie apocalypse suddenly breakout. It’s perfectly normal behaviour. There have been so many films and…
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Fantasia Review: Broadcast Signal Intrusion
Mystery is one of the most powerful and compelling elements within genre cinema. The ability to keep your audience, and lead, in the dark can make for an enthralling viewing…
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Fantasia Review: Kratt
In the same way that animated films are not just for children, horror movies aren’t necessarily the sole purview of adults. Like thousands, if not millions, of other teenagers, I…
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Fantasia Review: Alien On Stage
I suspect no one in the audience to see a new science fiction film on 22 June 1979 will ever forget that night. Alien tore up the rule book and…
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Fantasia Review: Strawberry Mansion
While filmmakers may be constrained by finances or restricted by the availably of technology, the limits of the human imagination are almost boundless. Genre cinema provides a perfect safe space…
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Fantasia International Film Festival 2021 Preview
Now in its 25th year, Montreal’s Fantasia International Film Festival continues to push boundaries by showcasing the best in new international genre cinema since its inception. It’s a festival which…
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Tribeca Review: Ultrasound
Whilst on the face of it the science fiction film genre should be relatively narrow in terms of definition, when you think about it there’s actually a surprising number of…
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Sheffield Doc/Fest Review – 9/11: One Day in America
I’d argue that we can define modern history as the period before and after September 11th 2001. Anyone waking up on that Tuesday morning would never have believed the events…
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