It is a dismal tale in the faux genre turning Futuristic that is the debut feature film, meanwhile on earth written and directed by Jérémy Clapin. The past is full of such ambitious ideas which have now become naive and dulled fantasies while the same cannot be said of the present as it is only […]
In the distant future, aliens have come down to earth cause for some reason their mother planet is no longer habitable. That is a storyline that belongs to District 9, not the first page of The Silent Planet, a movie by Jeffrey St. Jules which is receiving its World Premiere at Fantasia. While that is
Do you remember the part in Ti West’s MaXXXine when Elizabeth Debicki as Elizabeth Bender goes around saying how she made a ‘b-movie with a’ ideas? That is very likely the furthest we will get at this point and time is probably what Mangy Llanso’s Infinite Summer, which had its world premiere at the Fantasia
Calvin Reeder’s “The A-Frame” is filled with well-articulated concepts yet to be developed into an effective piece of work. It is a film about the inevitability of death and embarrassing desires of running from it and how creatively, the narrative design turns towards terminal illness. But as the narrative starts exploring the Sci-Fi aspect, it
There are bad movies, there are really bad movies, and there’s “Lumina,” a stunningly pitiful effort at every single level that makes one think that the writers are going for a deliberate model of The Room or Birdemic and playing for the audience only. What’s with some of the awful shot selection, the hair-brained plotting,
It is indeed true that there is no such thing as a video game adaptation curse, but there are terrible films based on video games. Borderlands, for instance. Honorable mention goes, of course, to Eli Roth’s ugly-as-hell adaptation of one of Gearbox Software’s best loved franchises, the ridiculously entertaining looter shooter following. Even the title
Alien: Romulus revives a franchise that was losing ground and with jump-out-of-your-seat scares. Fede Álvarez, an Uruguayan movie director, crafts a ghostly, visceral thriller for the seventh series (without mentioning the terrible Predator crossovers) which deftly combines elements of sci-fi and horror at their most excellent. However it does not matter who will survive in
They have seen you from across the bar, Deadpool and Wolverine. It doesn’t matter if you haven’t enjoyed the MCU since Avengers: Endgame pushed the stakes of the franchise off a cliff, or if you’re cautiously optimistic about the rest of the Multiverse Saga – come for Deadpool and Wolverine’s blockbuster chemistry, but stay for
