BEATING HEARTS
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  Year Released: 2010 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 11 minutes |
Matthew Garrett’s short film “Beating Hearts” reminds me a little bit of Salinger’s “A Perfect Day for Bananafish” or Hemmingway’s “Hills Like White Elephants.” Both are stories that seem, on a superficial level, not to have much of a story at all, but it’s in the omissions that lurk all their secrets…
Posted on September 5, 2010 by Jeremy Knox
INTO ETERNITY
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  Year Released: 2010 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 75 minutes |
…the film transforms itself from a documentary about nuclear disposal into a science fiction movie taking place in the present…
Posted on August 16, 2010 by Jeremy Knox
NEVERMORE: AN EVENING WITH EDGAR ALLAN POE
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Year Released: 2010 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: minutes |
I think it’s only natural that Stuart Gordon and Dennis Paoli, the creative team behind “Re-animator” and “From Beyond,” have brought Edgar Allen Poe to the stage…
Posted on August 11, 2010 by Jeremy Knox
THE LAND BEFORE TIME
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Year Released: 1988 MPAA Rating: G Running Time: 69 minutes |
2010 FANTASIA FILM FESTIVAL SELECTION! This is a masterpiece. To call it anything less would not do. I finally saw a beautiful and crisp copy of it in a proper theatre at the Fantasia Film Festival when Don Bluth and Gary Goldman were both honoured with a well deserved lifetime achievement award. The room was filled with kids who sat in rapt attention during the showing, as did I…
Posted on July 29, 2010 by Jeremy Knox
T.T. SYNDROME
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  Year Released: 2002 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 102 minutes |
2010 FANTASIA FILM FESTIVAL! Yes, “T.T. Syndrome” is loud and obnoxious, and the characters are beyond dumb, but this is what makes the genre work. This feels like a period correct Giallo film in almost every single significant way…
Posted on July 28, 2010 by Jeremy Knox
ALICE JACOBS IS DEAD
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Year Released: 2009 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 21 minutes |
2010 FANTASIA FILM FESTIVAL SELECTION! “Alice Jacobs is Dead” earns the emotions that it wrings from you. It’s a genuine film, one that has a few ideas in its brain and something to say, one that is all too often seldom seen…
Posted on July 27, 2010 by Jeremy Knox
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Year Released: 2009 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 91 minutes |
2010 FANTASIA FILM FESTIVAL SELECTION! Based on the novel by Stanislaw Lem, who also wrote the equally existential “Solaris,” the film doesn’t pull punches or try to give easy answers…
Posted on July 22, 2010 by Jeremy Knox
AT WORLD’S END
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Year Released: 2009 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 90 minutes |
2010 FANTASIA FILM FESTIVAL SELECTION! What I felt most while watching “World’s End” was a warm fuzzy sense of nostalgia for the good old days of action movies. Where nothing too impossible happened and where plot, characters, dialogue and fun were what propelled the film, not CGI, shaky camera work and incoherent editing…
Posted on July 20, 2010 by Jeremy Knox
MAI MAI MIRACLE
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Year Released: 2009 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 93 minutes |
2010 FANTASIA FILM FESTIVAL SELECTION! At heart, Anime is a stylistic method and one of its trademarks is a profound sense of joy and optimism. Of course, the genre is often about sad things, but it maintains a stoic cheerfulness nonetheless. “Thus is life.” I’m sure it would say if it could.
Posted on July 20, 2010 by Jeremy Knox
KURONEKO
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Year Released: 1968 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 99 minutes |
2010 FANTASIA FILM FESTIVAL SELECTION! “Kuroneko” is a must for any fan of Japanese cinema, and especially those of J-horror cinema. It is the humble seed that has spawned a strange bloody forest…
Posted on July 18, 2010 by Jeremy Knox
FATSO
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Year Released: 2008 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 91 minutes |
2010 FANTASIA FILM FESTIVAL SELECTION! Have you ever had someone tell you a joke that you didn’t find funny, but then they start laughing in such a genuine way that it’s infectious and so you start laughing a little too? Foreign comedies are kind of like that…
Posted on July 17, 2010 by Jeremy Knox
TRIPPING FANTASIA 2010 WITH FILM THREAT
I find it fitting that I’m back at Fantasia after a hiatus last year. This summer marks the 20th anniversary of when I finally realized that films weren’t just some pastime for me, but a genuine passion. So I honestly can’t think of anything more appropriate than to celebrate this anniversary here…
Posted on July 12, 2010 by Jeremy Knox
TRICK ‘R TREAT (DVD)
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Year Released: 2008 MPAA Rating: R Running Time: 100 minutes |
HAPPY HALLOWEEN! “Trick ‘r Treat” is about the real Halloween – when you can literally smell the fear wafting through the air, where the dead are just a look over your shoulder away, and where superstition and reality begin to blur into the same darkness.
Posted on October 31, 2009 by Jeremy Knox
STUCK!
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Year Released: 2009 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 94 minutes |
A sometimes faithful, sometimes fanciful recreation of the old black-and-white women-in-prison films.
Posted on October 14, 2009 by Jeremy Knox
The FanTasia 2009 Festival wants YOUR Film
Since its inception in 1996, FanTasia has been an event hell-bent on showcasing the most exciting, innovative and individualistic examples of contemporary international genre cinema, with an emphasis on unveiling films very rarely seen in North America
Posted on February 25, 2009 by Jeremy Knox