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Fantasia 2016 Review: Terraformars
I learned something from filmmaker Edgar Wright a long time ago, when he presented Riki-Oh! The Story of Ricky. There is a certain kind of narrative silliness in screenwriting that can only be...
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Fantasia 2016 Review: The Rupture
“Don’t fight it. Let it happen. This confusion is all part of the process.” This advice is repeated, often in a beatific manner, by the mysterious group of captors who are intent on, among other...
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Fantasia 2016 Review: The Lure
Mermaids are apparently popular again. Disney is currently remaking their animated hit as an expensive live-action feature, and Stephen Chow’s, The Mermaid ended up being an epic-sized cash-machine of...
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Fantasia 2016 Review: In A Valley Of Violence
In Sergio Leone’s classic The Good The Bad And The Ugly, one of many iconic scenes involves a gunfighter sneaking up to murder Eli Wallach’s Tuco in the bath-tub. The anonymous heavy lost his arm in a...
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Fantasia 2016 Review: I, Olga Hepnarová
At one point over the course of this haunting and difficult film, the lead character is reading the Graham Greene novel, The Quiet American. She highlights a passage from the novel that is the...
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Fantasia 2016 Review: Shelley
A classy, atmospheric take on the hysteria of new parenthood, Ali Abbasi’s Shelley wears its influences boldly on its sleeve (and right there in the title), only the Frankenstein’s monster here is a...
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Fantasia 2016 Review: Realive
When screenwriters turn towards directing their own features, the case is often that they can make their talkiest screenplay into a film. This is not necessary a bad thing at all, especially...
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