FANTASTIC FEST: Cannon Arm and the Arcade Quest (2021)
Kim Cannon Arm is a lover and collector of arcade cabinets. He’s also a legend in the world of competitive video games, as he and his friends at Copenhagen’s Bip Bip Bar are all masters at their own games — and unique life skills — while Kim excels at playing Konami’s Gyruss. He’s made it […]
FANTASTIC FEST: Agnes (2021)
In the time that you’ll read this, Mickey Reece may have already made a new movie. For four years in a row, he’s had a debut at Fantastic Fest. You may have seen his Climate of the Hunter a year or so ago — time no longer makes sense, so it could have been months — […]
FANTASTIC FEST: This is Gwar (2021)
17 year old me discovered Gwar and life finally made sense. What other band outright claimed that they were going to murder you when you saw them in concert? Coming from space, destroying the ozone layer, that had game shows on stage that gave the people what they want — “the senseless slaughter of the […]
FANTASTIC FEST: The Found Footage Phenomenon (2021)
Written and directed by Sarah Appleton (who has worked on many documentary shorts and DVD extras, as well as being the cinematographer of Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror) and Phillip Escott (who wrote and directed Cruel Summer), The Found Footage Phenomenon has done the impossible: take a genre that I saw no value in […]
FANTASTIC FEST: There’s Someone Inside Your House (2021)
Based on the book by Stephanie Perkins, this Patrick Brice-directed (Creep) film is exactly the kind of movie for people who wish that the 90s and early 00s slasher boom never ended. Seriously, this film has major vibes of I Know What You Did Last Summer and if that’s a good thing for you, then this […]
FANTASTIC FEST: Nr. 10 (2021)
Alex van Warmerdam, who also made Borgman and Schneider vs. Bax, has really made one of the strangest films I’ve seen at Fantastic Fest, which is a real testament. That’s because it starts like some sort of highbrow art film, as a director worries about the opening night of his new play. One of the actors has […]
FANTASTIC FEST: Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes (2021)
Kato lives above the shop that he owns in Kyoto, Japan and spends whatever time he has left after working playing in a band and thinking of the Megumi, who works at the shop next door. Somehow, in the midst of the ordinary that is his life, Kato learns that the computer screens within his […]
FANTASTIC FEST: The Visitor (1979)
EDITOR’S NOTE: During Fantastic Fest, one of my favorite films of all time is getting shown as it should be, on the big screen — The Visitor — which we originally wrote about on September 1, 2017. It will be presented in conjunction with the launch of Mondo’s new book Warped & Faded: Weird Wednesday and the […]
FANTASTIC FEST: Rad (1986)
EDITOR’S NOTE: In celebration of its 35th anniversary, the 1986 BMX racing film Rad will return to movie theaters nationwide on Thursday, October 14 at 7:00 p.m. courtesy of Fathom Events and Utopia. Featuring a new 35th-anniversary restoration, fans will see — for the first time — A Rad Documentary – Inside the BMX Movie That Changed […]
FANTASTIC FEST: Possession (1981)
Director and co-writer Andrzej Żuławski’s only English language film, Possession is the only section 2 video nasty that has a lead actress, Isabelle Adjani, who won the Best Actress award at the Cannes Film Festival. I often think, “Man, it would be awesome to act in a movie or be part of one,” but at no […]
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