Fantasia Festival 2019 Review: Harpoon
Not all films set on a vessel are tales of endurance, loss and triumph or involve a battle of wits with a nefarious sea creature. Whilst pitching ‘man’ against the…
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Fantasia Festival 2019 Review: Kingdom
There’s nothing in the West quite like Asian historical action epics. That sense of grandeur which mixes fact and fiction to produce a glossy spectacle on a huge scale. Akira…
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Fantasia Festival 2019 Review: Hard-Core
With a myriad of streaming services at our deposal, a great many online resources and active film communities, it has become increasingly simple to watch cinema from all around the…
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Fantasia Festival 2019 Review: House of Hummingbird
South Korea was booming in the early 1990s. It was one of the biggest global success stories. Driven by a buoyant real estate market, Seoul in particular was rapidly expanding.…
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Fantasia Festival 2019 Review: Door Lock
When people think about Asian horror, they often focus on Japanese cinema. Whilst some of the most famous films (Ringu, Audition, Dark Water) come from the land of the rising…
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Fantasia Festival 2019 Review: A Good Woman is Hard to Find
It’s surprising the lengths we will go to in order to protect our family. There’s an animalistic instinct which kicks in around young children, especially if you’re a single parent…
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Fantasia Festival 2019 Review: The Incredible Shrinking Wknd
We live in a world where events move so quickly. On a daily basis, we’re assailed from all sides by information and news from around the world. It can become…
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Fantasia Festival 2019 Review: The Prey
Today’s action movies are full of CGI, unnecessary high moral concepts and diversity quotas. It’s not like the good old days when they were created as vehicles to showcase the…
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Fantasia Festival 2019 Review: 8
South Africa isn’t a country which you’d naturally associate with cinema but it has produced some of the best contemporary African films over the years. The likes of The Wound,…
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Fantasia Festival 2019 Review: Ode to Nothing
You need to be a very special character to work in a funeral home or mortuary. Someone who is comfortable with blood, bodily fluids and being surrounded by cadavers. It…
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