One of the more tragic and difficult aspects of being a wrestling fan – and it happens so frequently that you unfortunately have to call it part of the overall experience – is that you discover and then get invested in a wrestler only for them to die […]
Dead & Buried (1981) gained notoriety after being placed on Britain’s infamous Video Nasties list and with its copious amount of gore, one might think that it’s just another lurid exploitation piece. However, this film is a meditation on the fear of death, as well as a subversive […]
Sometimes the Netflix algorithm gets it right, instead of serving up its usual tendency to knock you unconscious with a malfunctioning neon drone to the head, as happens to Best of the Best’s Maya at her high school talent show. The loosely Bollywood-related setting is right up my […]
There’s still some screenings today, but Fantastic Fest 2026 is over for me at least. I had a good festival this year. I didn’t get to watch all the films I hoped to, but it’s hard to be disappointed when I know I’ll see most of them eventually. […]
As always at this time of year – festival season – but especially this year for personal reasons, I’ve been thinking a lot about the way I’ve become used to consuming art and specifically film. A large amount of my movie-watching takes place at film festivals, which means […]
Cyclops (1987) Japan made a good number of direct-to-video horror shorts in the ’80s, and Cyclops is one of the better ones, even though the story is almost incomprehensible. Takamori (Kazuhiro Sano) is obsessed with birth defects, specifically “cyclopia,” where the two eyes fuse together in the womb […]
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