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A Town Called Panic Trailer: Insanity Reigns! If Fantastic Fest is going to be credited for starting this year’s great cinema meme (Chaos Reigns), then it must also take credit for launching A Town Called Panic into the spotlight. This wild little film did win the Audience Awards, after all. By Neil Miller on November 17, 2009 | Comments |
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Fantastic Fest Interview: Ride with ‘Broncos’ Author Dr. Ronald Chevalier We managed to sit down with Dr. Chevalier to talk Gentlemen Broncos, being a pompous asshole, and the future of science fiction novellas. By Adam Sweeney on November 3, 2009 | Comments |
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Fantastic Fest Interview: Ride with ‘Broncos’ Star Jemaine Clement We managed to sit down with Jemaine Clement to talk Gentlemen Broncos, playing a pompous asshole, and the future of Rock Band: Flight of the Conchords Edition. By Adam Sweeney on November 3, 2009 | Comments |
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Fantastic Fest Review: First Squad You read that title right. We’ve covered so many films from Fantastic Fest that even now, a month after the fest has closed its doors, we’re still pumping out reviews. By Neil Miller on November 2, 2009 | Comments |
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Fantastic Fest Review: Under the Mountain Twins! Psychic powers! Sam Neill! Alien neighbors! Gingers! How will they put them all together into one film? By Rob Hunter on October 27, 2009 | Comments |
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Fantastic Fest Review: Cirque Du Freak: The Vampire’s Assistant Darren and Steve are best friends despite different upbringings and personalities. They both attend a mysterious Freak Show populated by fantastical beings, and Darren joins the ranks of the undead by becoming a vampire, but Steve will have his own, darker journey to go through. By Dr. Cole Abaius on October 26, 2009 | Comments |
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Exclusive: Team ‘Mandrill’ Teaches Us How to Be a Super Spy With as lightening-fast as Marko Zaror is, we were incredibly lucky to catch him on camera for an exclusive Fantastic Fest interview. We assume the master martial artist and Mandrill director Ernesto Diaz Espinoza were lured in by the promise of free booze and shag carpet on the walls. By Brian Salisbury on October 19, 2009 | Comments |
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Magic, ravens, forbidden love, an evil flour mill, and a retarded Baldwin brother! (There aren’t actually any Baldwins in this film). By Rob Hunter on October 15, 2009 | Comments |
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Fantastic Fest Review: Dirty Mind The lowest on the totem pole, Diego, is laughed at on the job working with his confident, stunt man older brother Cisse. He’s shy, struggles with a need for love he can’t fulfill, and is generally walked upon by everyone until an accident sees him waking up in the hospital as Tony T – a brand new personality that comes complete with cockiness and catch-phrases. By Dr. Cole Abaius on October 14, 2009 | Comments |
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Fantastic Fest Review: Salvage A strange cargo container washes ashore near an idyllic cul-de-sac in Liverpool, and with it comes a strange killer and the full force of the black ops who take over the neighborhood. With a monster lurking in the shadows and the automatic-weapons-wielding force lurking in plain sight outside, there’s no safe haven for the residents, but Beth is desperate to find her daughter and take her to safety. By Dr. Cole Abaius on October 13, 2009 | Comments |
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After that damned Global Warming has messed up the environment, it’s also created a massive boon in truffles in Montreal where a new business has taken over. Unfortunately, supplies are finite, and a new company has moved in under the guise of a pelt-selling shop that, of course, is more intent on sending out furry mind-control drones to take over the wealth of the truffle-hunting biz. On the outskirts of the war is freelance truffle-miner Charles who has to struggle to make a living and not get choked by a muppet. By Dr. Cole Abaius on October 12, 2009 | Comments |
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Fantastic Fest Review: Fireball Tai gets out of jail thanks to bail money from his twin brother who is sadly in a coma from all the money-raising/underground mob activity he’s engaged in. So, Tai goes underground and joins a Fireball team as well to avenge his brother’s coma. By Dr. Cole Abaius on October 12, 2009 | Comments |
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Fantastic Fest Review: Private Eye Murder, detectives, politics, gadgetry, circus workers, and at least one spectacular foot chase in a period piece! By Rob Hunter on October 11, 2009 | Comments |
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Fantastic Fest Review: Breathless Abuse, beat downs, unexpected friendships, emotional upheaval, more beat downs, simulated sexual thrusts against a child, drama, and even more beat downs! By Rob Hunter on October 11, 2009 | Comments |
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Exclusive: ‘Zombieland’ Writers Talk Killing the Undead and Fighting the Moon In which two men, one having never seen a zombie film and the other a casual fan of the genre, create the best zombie flick since Shaun of the Dead. And in which, I get the scoop of the century on who will be playing Venom. By Dr. Cole Abaius on October 9, 2009 | Comments |
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Fantastic Fest Review: District 13: Ultimatum Speed, agility, violence: Parkour, it’s not just something that gets parodied on The Office, it’s the way of the French. Come check in as Neil goes back to District B13 for another ass-kicking round of awesome. By Neil Miller on October 8, 2009 | Comments |
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Fantastic Fest Review: Kenny Begins In the weird column, I would like to enter Kenny Begins. It is quite simply the weirdest, most insane and possibly most deviously enjoyable films that I’ve seen here at Fantastic Fest. It’s Swedish. And that’s just the beginning. By Neil Miller on October 8, 2009 | Comments |
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Fantastic Fest Review: Daybreakers If there is one thing movie-going audiences have been saturated with of late it is vampire films. Luckily, some of them have turned out to be pretty damn good… By Brian Salisbury on October 8, 2009 | Comments |
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Fantastic Fest Review: The House of the Devil If House of the Devil was put in a stack of horror flicks from 1979-1984, no one on the planet would ever realize it was made thirty years after the fact. By Dr. Cole Abaius on October 7, 2009 | Comments |
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Fantastic Fest Review: The Revenant Iraq War Veteran Bart comes home in a body bag, but he doesn’t stay in the ground for long. He comes to his best friend Joey for help and they both enter a life of finding human blood so that Bart can avoid decomposing. By Dr. Cole Abaius on October 7, 2009 | Comments |