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Fantastic Fest 2008: "Ex Drummer."
Thu, Sep 25 2008 5:30 PM

Interesting that at a festival that celebrates visceral cinematic shocks -- the over-the-top splatter of "Tokyo Gore Police" and the "we dare you to walk out" boundary pushing of "Martyrs" and "Deadgirl" -- the two most disturbing films I saw weren't horror at all. The first is "I Think We're Alone Now,"... Read More...

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Filed under: Festivals, Fantastic Fest 2008, Reviews, Koen Mortier, Herman Brusselmans, Ex Drummer

Fantastic Fest 2008: "I Think We're Alone Now."
Wed, Sep 24 2008 3:42 PM

Like "American Movie" and "Billy the Kid," Sean Donnelly's "I Think We're Alone Now" makes you squirm at its relationships with its subjects and its audience. I wouldn't say that, as a documentary, it's unethical, but it does focus on two people who suffer from unknown degrees of mental illness and, watching it, you... Read More...

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Filed under: Festivals, Fantastic Fest 2008, I Think We're Alone Now, Reviews, Tiffany, Sean Donnelly

Fantastic Fest 2008: "JCVD."
Wed, Sep 24 2008 12:42 PM

Centering your film on the tragedy of being famous is a iffy proposition -- it's not a topic to which the majority of the world will relate, and from any normal and honest perspective, the benefits of celebrity far outweigh any downsides. But director Mabrouk El Mechri has as his star the Muscles From Brussels himself, Belgian action icon Jean-Claude Van... Read More...

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Filed under: Festivals, Fantastic Fest 2008, Reviews, JCVD, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Mabrouk El Mechri

Fantastic Fest 2008: "The Substitute."
Mon, Sep 22 2008 9:44 AM

Paprika Steen, the Danish actress best known for her roles in Dogme films like "Festen," "The Idiots" and "Mifune," is to die for in Ole Bornedal's horror-comedy "The Substitute." Like, she eats someone whole. She plays the forbiddingly named Ulla Harms, a substitute teacher who takes over sixth grade class 6B and whose... Read More...

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Filed under: Festivals, Fantastic Fest 2008, Reviews, The Substitute, Paprika Steen, Ole Bornedal

Fantastic Fest 2008: "Seventh Moon."
Sun, Sep 21 2008 2:03 PM

There was an episode of "The Maury Povich Show" in which people confessed to serious but laughable phobias -- birds, pickles, balloons -- after which, for scientific purposes, you understand, a PA would come out and confront them with their object of terror. As I watched a housewife be chased around a sound stage, shrieking, by an intern wielding a... Read More...

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Filed under: Festivals, Fantastic Fest 2008, Reviews, Tim Chiou, The Blair Witch Project, Amy Smart, Seventh Moon, Eduardo Sánchez

Fantastic Fest 2008: Opening Night, "Zack and Miri Make a Porno."
Sat, Sep 20 2008 9:34 PM

There's incredible (and welcome) cultural whiplash in sneaking away from the middle of the determinedly highbrow New York Film Festival to head to Austin for Fantastic Fest, an event that's most certainly not. Dedicated to horror, sci-fi, fantasy, cult and general genre fare, Fantastic Fest is the brainchild of Alamo Drafthouse founder Tim League with... Read More...

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Filed under: Festivals, Kevin Smith, Zack and Miri Make a Porno, Fantastic Fest 2008, Seth Rogen, Elizabeth Banks, Reviews

Zack and Miri go to Austin.
Mon, Aug 25 2008 1:41 PM

I've never been to the Toronto Film Festival. We've traditionally left it the realm of IFC Canada -- but this year I am headed to Fantastic Fest in Austin, and couldn't be more pleased. The country's fiercest genre festival has already announced two waves of films; among the selections the U.S. premieres of "Ong Bak" director Prachya... Read More...

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Filed under: Festivals, Kevin Smith, Zack and Miri Make a Porno, Fantastic Fest 2008