The Smashing Machine de Benny Safdie está basada en la vida del pionero de MMA Mark Kerr, con Dwayne Johnson en el papel principal. Esta historia trata sobre el luchador de artes marciales mixtas a final de los años 90, donde el público conoce el éxito que está teniendo en Estados Unidos y Japón. La… Continue reading Crítica de cine: The Smashing Machine – Grandes actuaciones de los protagonistas
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Fantastic Fest 2025: COYOTES Delivers B-Movie Amusement
Fantastic Fest consistently offers its participants a diverse and entertaining selection of films, often featuring a wild and unusual variety. Coyotes is an utterly absurd film, but it is usually funny and sometimes suspenseful. It is a B-movie that makes no pretensions about what it is delivering, and that, alone, is part of the fun.… Continue reading Fantastic Fest 2025: COYOTES Delivers B-Movie Amusement
Monster Within: built on sincerity and ambition
Some films have all the right ingredients — a heartfelt premise, a meaningful metaphor, and a profoundly personal creative vision — yet still struggle to come together fully. Monsters Within, written, directed, produced, and led by Devin Montgomery (Worm), is one of those films. It’s a project built on sincerity and ambition, but its execution… Continue reading Monster Within: built on sincerity and ambition
Fantastic Fest 2025: The Vile from Emirati Filmmaker wins Best Horror Film
The Vile is the latest intense horror/psychological thriller from acclaimed Emirati filmmaker and genre master Majid Al Ansari (Zinzana, The Intruder, “Paranormal” series). The alum of Fantastic Fest made his 2025 return with the world premiere of The Vile, shot entirely on 16mm film. His debut feature was Zinzana (Rattle The Cage) in 2015. The… Continue reading Fantastic Fest 2025: The Vile from Emirati Filmmaker wins Best Horror Film
FANTASTIC FEST – APPOFENIACS: the true horror runs much deeper, in the ideas that pulse beneath its gore
Premiering at Fantastic Fest 2025, Appofeniacs is the kind of horror film that sneaks under your skin and stays long after the credits roll. On the surface, it might appear as a blood-soaked spectacle — and yes, there’s plenty of viscera on display — but the true horror runs much deeper, in the ideas that… Continue reading FANTASTIC FEST – APPOFENIACS: the true horror runs much deeper, in the ideas that pulse beneath its gore
Crítica de película de Fantastic Fest: One Battle After Another – Familia, acción y drama es todo un éxito
La nueva película de Paul Thomas Anderson, One Battle After Another, está inspirada en la novela “Vineland” de Thomas Pynchon, ambientada en los años 80. El guion de Anderson es una historia de familia, drama y resistencia que cautivará al público. Aunque esta historia se desarrolla hace unas décadas, la historia de la resistencia no… Continue reading Crítica de película de Fantastic Fest: One Battle After Another – Familia, acción y drama es todo un éxito
FANTASTIC FEST 2025: One Battle After Another- ambitious, bold, and often wildly entertaining
Bob is a washed-up revolutionary living in a haze of stoned paranoia, off-grid with his spirited and self-reliant daughter, Willa. When his evil nemesis resurfaces and Willa goes missing, the former radical races against time to find her as both father and daughter face the repercussions of their pasts. One Battle After Another was among… Continue reading FANTASTIC FEST 2025: One Battle After Another- ambitious, bold, and often wildly entertaining
FANTASTIC FEST – Bad Haircut: Animal House meets Texas Chain Saw Massacre
Some movies make you rethink a bad haircut. “Bad Haircut,” which premiered at Fantastic Fest 2025, makes you reconsider stepping foot in a barbershop ever again. On the surface, Kyle Misak’s debut appears to be a quirky indie thriller about a guy trying to reinvent himself with a new look — but once the scissors… Continue reading FANTASTIC FEST – Bad Haircut: Animal House meets Texas Chain Saw Massacre
FANTASTIC FEST2025: Haunted Heist- one of the most painfully misguided and awkward screenings I’ve attended in years
There’s nothing quite like the particular kind of disappointment that comes from walking into a film excited and walking out questioning how it ever got made. That was the mood leaving Haunted Heist, Lil Rel Howery’s directorial debut, which premiered this week at Fantastic Fest. What should have been a clever, high-energy mix of heist… Continue reading FANTASTIC FEST2025: Haunted Heist- one of the most painfully misguided and awkward screenings I’ve attended in years
Fantastic Fest Review: Quentin Dupieux’s Dark Comedy Satire is Spot-On
About: A social media star, Magalie Moreau (Adèle Exarchopoulos) often shoots videos that go viral and keeps going to “test” various items that include her body as the test site. As a youngster, she began with some items that caught people’s attention, then gradually moved on to more shocking ones. She has vast numbers of… Continue reading Fantastic Fest Review: Quentin Dupieux’s Dark Comedy Satire is Spot-On