Por Liz López Rating: B+ El director Tim Burton en Austin por la cinta Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children El cineasta Tim Burton (Beetlejuice) asistio el festival de cine, Fantastic Fest en Austin para presentar el nuevo largometraje, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, basado en el guion escrito por Jane Goldman, adaptada del… Continue reading Fantastic Fest 2016 Spanish Review: MISS PEREGRINE’S HOME FOR PECULIAR CHILDREN
Day: September 30, 2016
Fantastic Fest 2016: THE FANTASTIC FEST AWARDS
Source: Fantastic Fest Austin, TX – Friday, September 30, 2016 – Fantastic Fest is pleased to announce this year’s Fantastic Fest Award winners. It has been an outstanding year for features & shorts, making the job of honoring a select crop all the more difficult, but our esteemed team of jurors have done the nearly impossible… Continue reading Fantastic Fest 2016: THE FANTASTIC FEST AWARDS
Review: QUEEN OF KATWE
By Liz Lopez Rating: B+ Slowly but surely, changes are being made to create and produce more films that tell the real life stories of success from unexpected places around the world. Biopic films may not appeal to all fans of cinema, but some are especially engaging when the script is good and the performance… Continue reading Review: QUEEN OF KATWE
Fantastic Fest 2016: END REPORT
By Mark Saldana Photos by Mark Saldana After eight days of film screenings, special events, parties and other fun and games, the 2016 Fantastic Fest has come to end. This end-of-the fest piece is always bittersweet for me. After spending a week at the Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar getting reacquainted with old friends and getting… Continue reading Fantastic Fest 2016: END REPORT
Fantastic Fest 2016 Review: MISS PEREGRINE’S HOME FOR PECULIAR CHILDREN
By Mark Saldana Rating: 3 (Out of 4 Stars) The young adult novel which inspires Tim Burton’s newest movie seems tailor-made for Burton’s creative and imaginative mind and his artistic sensibilities for creating a visually vibrant cinematic experience. The material also has the right amount of abberance for Fantastic Fest audiences. I have not read… Continue reading Fantastic Fest 2016 Review: MISS PEREGRINE’S HOME FOR PECULIAR CHILDREN
Review: DEEP WATER HORIZON
By Laurie Coker Rating: A- Few who watched the news about the huge oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, especially those affected by the disaster, will ever forget the catastrophe on the off-shore oil rig the Deepwater Horizon. Director Peter Berg (Lone Survivor) gives viewers a taut, tense tale of that fateful day when… Continue reading Review: DEEP WATER HORIZON