On November 24th 1988, on a little local channel in Minneapolis and Saint Paul Minnesota, there premiered an original television show that would grow to be one of the most influential TV series in television history. Mystery Science Theater 3000 or, as it would forever be known in google search boxes years later, MST3K. The …
Michael Stephenson, the child star of Troll 2 and director of Best Worst Movie, is set to direct his first feature film, a dark horror comedy called Destroy. The dark comedy is set in a world where vampires don’t exist but a makeshift vampire hunter is moving swiftly across Bavaria laying wooden stakes into hearts …
Life Is Hot In Cracktown Directed by Buddy Giovinazzo *** ½ Writer and director Buddy Giovinazzo has successfully adapted his collection of the 1992 short stories into a full-length feature film. Similar to Magnolia, Giovinazzo’s movie intercuts between four groups of people who all reside in the same ghetto overrun by crime, drug abuse and …
The critically and publicly acclaimed second edition of the DOCUMENTARIES FROM THE EDGE series proved last year that it holds a distinguished place at Fantasia. This section returns this summer with five debut films taking on curious and disturbing social phenomena. A debate over a video game, a modern out-law family, a site dedicated to …
Fantasia Festival is North America’s premiere (and largest) genre film festival. It is also my favorite film festival and so I could not wait to share the highlights of this years line up. Below is just some of the films we will be reviewing on our upcoming podcasts. BEST WORST MOVIE – Montreal premiere, hosted …