“Re: Born” is a title that makes sense once you watch the latest film from Yuji Shimomura (“Death Trance”), but it might as well have been called “One Man Army.”
Tak Sakaguchi (“Versus”) has come out …
While introducing the U.S. Premiere of Julia Ducournau’s “Raw,” Fantastic Fest programmer Evrim Ersoy declared it “the most audacious genre film of 2016.” After viewing, it’s hard to argue with the man.
This French coming-of-age story focuses on …
For his first feature film in a decade, Paul Verhoeven (“Basic Instinct”) originally intended to shoot in Boston and had a long list of famous actresses (including Nicole Kidman) he wanted to star. Instead, he …
Austin gave up its weird crown for a day on Sunday and went peculiar instead.
Director Tim Burton, an artist when it comes to both the peculiar and the weird, was in town for screenings of his new “Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children” at Fantastic Fest. Before the movie rolled, Austin director Robert Rodriguez presented on official proclamation from Mayor Steve Adler and the city declaring Sunday “Keep Austin Peculiar …
In the post-film Q&A for her second feature, Sarah Adina Smith referred to “Buster’s Mal Heart” as “an atheist’s lament.” It’s a story not so much of dual personalities, but of how a person (probably …
For three generations in Grantham, Virginia, the Tildens have owned and operated the local morgue and crematorium. Tony (Brian Cox) has been showing his son Austin (Emile Hirsch) the ropes, but he’s not too excited to …
In her second full-length film, writer/director Ana Lily Amirpour throws us into a fairly specific post-apocalyptic world of her own creation and provides viewers very few details.
In this (possibly) not-so-distant future, those in society who are most …
Dutch director Michael Dudok de Wit takes a very minimalist approach with his new feature, the first ever international co-production from legendary Japanese animation house Studio Ghibli.
It’s a fairy tale about a man lost at …
“I like this idea,” the character of Dash Shaw says in the filmmaker Dash Shaw’s “My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea.” “It has the quality of a dream.”
That notion holds for …
Let’s get one thing clear: It takes nothing away from “Arrival” — as powerful as it is — to note that director Denis Villeneuve and writer Eric Heisserer were working with extraordinary raw material.
“Arrival,” which …
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