Bonus Episode of I Like to Movie Movie – Fantastic Fest 2023: Best of the Fest!
This year I was super lucky to be able to attend Fantastic Fest 2023 in-person in beautiful, sweltering hot, Austin, Texas! It was an incredibly
Ice Cream Man & Spider-Man: Brand New Day – two movies that I don’t have strong feelings about either way
The Odyssey – Seeing yourself become the villain
I Like to Movie Movie episode 280 – A Farewell Film Potluck
Evil Dead Burn – a New French Extremity-inspired entry to a series that will (hopefully) never die!
The Invite – an exceptional adult sex comedy
Supergirl – a middling hero flick with a great central performance
Disclosure Day – You’re always in good hands with Spielberg
Backrooms – Liminal horror with a plot!
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The Mandalorian and Grogu – a zero-gravity space adventure
This year I was super lucky to be able to attend Fantastic Fest 2023 in-person in beautiful, sweltering hot, Austin, Texas! It was an incredibly
Crumb Catcher dir. -Chris Skotchdopole We’ve all had that guest who just won’t leave. Typically a close talker with rancid breath, the “guy who won’t
Enter the Clones of Bruce – dir. David Gregory The mythical status of Bruce Lee looms so large that we often forget how short-lived his
Pet Sematary: Bloodlines – dir. Lindsey Beer Pet Sematary is a top-tier Stephen King novel. Pet Sematary is a top-tier film adaptation. Pet Sematary 2
UFO Sweden – dir. Victor Danell I’m a literal Scully (look at the website name), but my heart has always pumped the blood of a
Bark – dir. Marc Schölermann The first of two “trapped in a small space” films I’ve caught at Fantastic Fest comes in the form of
The Toxic Avenger – dir. Macon Blair “I’m not the step-dad, I’m the dad who stepped up.” So says the oddly combative t-shirt that undoubtedly
Later this week Fantastic Fest returns to Austin, Texas once again, dishing out a king’s ransom of independent films in every flavor you can imagine.
Jeezum crow, Megalomaniac is bleak. Bleeeeeak. From moment one, the film lets you know that, like that omnipresent Trent Reznor meme, you’re gonna have a
Folks going into Outlaw Johnny Black expecting Black Dynamite are going to be disappointed. I will admit that for the first third or so of