Fantasia reviews

Nightmare Cinema (Movie Review)

Posted 6 years ago

PLOT: Five lost souls wander into an abandoned movie theater run by a ghoulish projectionist (Mickey Rourke) who presents them with terrifying visions of their inevitable damnation. REVIEW: NIGHTMARE CINEMA will no doubt be a welcome treat for fans of...

Predestination (Fantasia Review)

Posted 11 years ago

PLOT: A time-travelling lawman, or rather “temporal agent” (Ethan Hawke) tries to prevent a terrorist bombing. REVIEW: To those of you reading this review, I don’t blame you for no doubt thinking that my plot synopsis is pretty bland. Sounds...

In Order of Disappearance (Fantasia Review)

Posted 11 years ago

PLOT: A snow-plough driver (Stellan Skarsgard) living in Norway goes after the crime syndicate responsible for the death of his son. REVIEW: “A father has to avenge his son.” That’s the sole explanation given by Skarsgard’s Nils as he cuts...

The Harvest (Fantasia Review)

Posted 11 years ago

PLOT: Young Andy (Charlie Tahan) lives a sheltered existence. Having spent most of his life confined to bed due to illness, his parents keep a watchful eye over all aspects of his life. His MD mother (Samantha Morton) is cold...

Cybernatural (Fantasia Review)

Posted 11 years ago

PLOT: A gang of skyping teenagers are terrorized by an anonymous user that’s somehow connected to a former classmate who committed suicide after one of them posted an embarrassing video of her online. REVIEW: CYBERNATURAL is nothing if not timely....

Kite (Fantasia Review)

Posted 11 years ago

  PLOT: A young assassin (India Eisley) tries to avenge her parents by killing-off the minions of a flesh-merchant called The Emir. With the help of a renegade cop (Samuel L. Jackson) she gets close to her target only to...

Faults (Fantasia Review)

Posted 11 years ago

PLOT: A disgraced cult deprogrammmer (Leland Orser) is convinced by a wealthy couple to abduct and deprogram their daughter (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) who's fallen in with a cult called “Faults”. REVIEW: Anyone who was lucky enough to catch director Riley...

Review: I Origins (Fantasia Film Festival)

Posted 11 years ago

PLOT: Two molecular biologists (Michael Pitt & Brit Marling) studying the biology of the human eye, make a stunning discovery that challenges their unshakable belief that everything is explicable by science. REVIEW: The notion of science vs faith is one...