CRAZY SAMURAI MUSASHI – FANTASIA 2020 REVIEW

The limitations of the one take have consistently been tested to it’s very limits in the last decade or so. Especially after the critical smash that was Birdman or the Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance, contemporary filmmakers have been attempting to use the one take technique to either enhance realism or create a surreal way of […]

SPECIAL ACTORS – FANTASIA 2020 REVIEW

At one point in our lives, we’ve all experienced the miscellaneous experience of acting. Whether if it was just a one-day workshop or even a full mandatory school course where your credit and diploma was dependent on this weirdly specific elective, the art of drama and theatrics is a very intriguing universal trade. Right off […]

THE RECKONING – FANTASIA 2020 REVIEW

Neil Marshall must be having one hell of a year. Allegations of blackmail and extortion, recovery from the box office and critical flop of the Hellboy reboot from 2019, and now the world premiere release of his latest genre flick on a limited digital platform; you can’t help but wonder if the guy is actually […]

BARE – HOT DOCS ONLINE 2020 REVIEW

Leading the way for cinema so phallic it’s surprising to not see the organ onscreen, Bare is certainly an acquired taste. Avoiding both eroticism and a juvenile reaction to the male body in its raw form, Aleksandr Vinogradov’s exuberant filming of male nude dancers is an attempt to free the male form, as well as […]

THE REASON I JUMP – HOT DOCS ONLINE 2020 REVIEW

Around a year or two ago, I was officially diagnosed as an official person on the spectrum. I never really thought much of my diagnosis, with the exception of my panic attacks and moments of sensory overload. I never felt the need to tell anybody about my mental health condition, since I never found it […]