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Screener Squad: Without Blood
WITHOUT BLOOD MOVIE REVIEW Ernest Hemingway once wrote, “When you go to war as a boy you have a great illusion of immortality, other people get killed; not you”. A more modern writer, multiple award winning Alessandro Baricco, examines the fallout of war in his work Without Blood which now has been adapted and directed by Angelina Jolie and starring
Screener Squad: Unabomber
UNABOMBER MOVIE REVIEW For two decades, the notorious Unabomber terrorized America, until 1996 when the FBI finally apprehended Ted Kaczynski, a former professor of mathematics now living as a recluse in a small cabin in Montana that lacked running water or electricity, but had a typewriter and lots of bomb-making equipment. A gifted student, the young Kaczynski skipped several grades
Infestation: Fantastic Fest 2026 – Ghost in the Cell
GHOST IN THE CELL MOVIE REVIEW Let’s just get out of the way from the get-go that this is in no way beholden to the film that you almost certainly thought of when you saw the title was Ghost in the Cell. There’s no anime referencing here. Instead you get the modern master of Indonesian genre cinema Joko Anwar (Satan’s
Infestation: Fantastic Fest 2026 – 5 More Minutes
5 MORE MINUTES MOVIE REVIEW The time-loop time travel conceit in film and tv has been well explored, certainly since 1993’s Groundhog’s Day (although explorations of the idea in fiction go back to the early 20th century). The Spanish film 5 More Minutes which played at this year’s Fantastic Fest sets very specific boundaries to the loop, as the title
Infestation: Fantastic Fest 2026 – Donkey Princess
DONKEY PRINCESS MOVIE REVIEW From the directors of the politically charged, surreal, animated fairytale film The Wolf House comes the politically charged, surreal, partially animated fairytale film Donkey Princess which was featured at Fantastic Fest this year. The story follows Princess Diana who lives in a magical kingdom with her father the king. When the king’s wife dies, he outlaws
A Better Yesterday – Ep. 6: Making Sense of Nonsense
A BETTER YESTERDAY – EP 6: MAKING SENSE OF NONSENSE Ross O’Brien talks with Bey Logan about mo lei tau—Cantonese “nonsense talking”—and how Stephen Chow turned it into the dominant Hong Kong film genre of the 1990s. Starting from the end of the heroic bloodshed cycle, they trace the shift from Chow Yun-fat’s rain-soaked hitmen to Stephen Chow’s fast-talking, genre-bending