Reviews

[Fantasia Review] Preservation

When Christopher Denham's Preservation shows recently discharged vet Sean Neary (Pablo Schreiber) telling sister-in-law Wit (Wrenn Schmidt) about how playing wa...

[Fantasia Review] Ejecta

Many might take my comparing Ejecta to The Fourth Kind as a slight, but I actually enjoy the latter feature. While Chad Archibald and Matt Wiele's science ficti...

[Fantasia Review] The Search For Weng Weng

In 2010, Mark Hartley followed up his tribute to Australia’s trashy film past Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation with Machete Maidens U...

[Fantasia Review] Time Lapse

While ultimately a flawed film, Time Lapse does do what every memorable sci-fi brainteaser should: it makes you blind to the obvious. I bought into the premise ...

[Fantasia Review] The Zero Theorem

The comparisons between The Zero Theorem and Terry Gilliam’s most-beloved film are inevitable: dystopian sci-fi, a looming corporation, one lone man navigating ...

[Review] Guardians of the Galaxy

The opening scene of Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy is decidedly Earth-bound; a young boy sits in the waiting room of a late 90’s hospital, listening to 10cc’...

[Review] Cabin Fever: Patient Zero

I don’t remember much about Cabin Fever, the 2002 film that put writer/director Eli Roth on the map. Twelve years after watching it in theaters, I can’t for the...

[Fantasia Review] Creep

Blumhouse Productions has become a horror powerhouse with its many popular and expansive titles, ranging from the ever-growing Paranormal Activity series to the...

[Review] Get On Up

Biopics, especially musical biopics, are both an easy sell and a tough nut to crack. Like the most resilient of sub-genres, the formula is so tried and true tha...

[Review] Hercules

The trailers for Brett Ratner’s Hercules feature Dwayne Johnson punching a variety of very large mythological animals while screaming into the camera. Students ...