After Fantastic Fest’s screening of The Boat (2018), there was a Q&A with the film’s writer, producer and lone actor, Joe Azzopardi. Joe’s dad, Winston Azzopardi, co-wrote, produced and directs the film and the two apparently didn’t always see eye to ...
Read More »Fantastic Fest Review: Blood Lake (1987)
With so many options to rent/buy/stream movies, it’s amazing how many titles still linger in Never-never Land. And, with so much content, it’s even more remarkable that so many film fans remain curious about those strange little shot-on-video regional oddities ...
Read More »Fantastic Fest Review: Suspiria (2018)
At the beginning of Dario Argento’s 1978 horror opus Suspiria, a young American woman named Suzy Bannion (Jessica Harper) finds herself a foreigner in a foreign land. Overwhelmed by the long trip and the violent storm around her, she finds ...
Read More »Fantastic Fest Review: Halloween (2018)
At the beginning of the newest Halloween entry, two investigative journalists are sitting inside Laurie Strode’s (Jamie Lee Curtis) compound, hoping to get a few words from her about the ordeal she suffered forty years prior. They ask her if ...
Read More »Hey Weirdos! Joe Ziemba of the American Genre Film Archive Talks AGFA and Upcoming Fantastic Fest Screenings
Although the American Genre Film Archive (AGFA) has existed for nearly a decade, the organization has really picked up steam over the last couple of years. Their mission to rescue and preserve film oddities of all shapes and sizes has ...
Read More »‘Master Ninja’ (Blu-ray Review)
Just a few months prior to the debut of The Cosby Show, which allowed NBC to crawl out from under their ratings rock in the fall of 1984, there was another run for viewership gold held during the 1983-84 season. ...
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