By Mark Saldana Rating: 4 (Out of 4 Stars) Actor Mark Patton will forever be remembered as the male “scream queen” of A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge. Even though he has been honored and celebrated in recent years as a trailblazer in horror cinema, his journey to this status has been a… Continue reading Fantastic Fest 2019 Review: SCREAM, QUEEN! MY NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET
Month: October 2019
Fantastic Fest 2019 Review: VHYES
By Mark Saldana Rating: 3.5 (Out of 4 Stars) Just like The Kentucky Fried Movie lampoons television and movies of the seventies and Amazon Women on the Moon does the same for the eighties, VHYES satirizes, celebrates and loves late 80s cable television and VHS pop culture. Director Jack Henry Robbins takes his older audiences… Continue reading Fantastic Fest 2019 Review: VHYES
Review: LUCY IN THE SKY
By Laurie Coker Rating: C- There is a history, a deep one, behind Natalie Portman’s latest film, Lucy in the Sky. Stories and rumors flew like fireflies about the Paul McCartney, John Lennon song first performed by the Beatles for their Sgt. Pepper album in 1967. LSD (acid, Lucy) certainly, according to tabloids, was the… Continue reading Review: LUCY IN THE SKY
Fantastic Fest 2019 Review: THE DEATH OF DICK LONG
By Mark Saldana Rating: 3.5 (Out of 4 Stars) Writer Billy Chew and director Daniel Scheinert take a relatively simple, but disturbing true story and spin it into a suspenseful and intguing yarn that is certain to shock and awe. Normally, I would reveal the true events that inspired this feature film, but to do… Continue reading Fantastic Fest 2019 Review: THE DEATH OF DICK LONG