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Fantasia Film Festival

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Festivals

The Great Yokai War: Guardians – first-look review

by Josh Slater-Williams

It’s leg­ends only as Takashi Miike returns to the scene of his fam­i­ly-friend­ly fan­ta­sy extrav­a­gan­za from 2005.
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Festivals

The Devil’s Deal – first look review

by Josh Slater-Williams

Lee Won-tae fol­lows up his 2019 hit The Gang­ster, the Cop, the Dev­il, with anoth­er accom­plished under­world crime saga.
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Festivals

Satoshi Kon: The Illusionist is an emotional look at a virtuosic director

by Kambole Campbell

Though light on the tech­nique, this doc­u­men­tary offers a fas­ci­nat­ing insight into the ani­mé icon’s world.
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Festivals

A new documentary about a DIY stage version of Alien is an absurd delight

by Kambole Campbell

Alien on Stage tells the sto­ry of a pan­tomime troupe’s hand-craft­ed trib­ute to Rid­ley Scott’s sci-fi classic.
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Festivals

Special Actors – first-look review

by Josh Slater-Williams

Shinichi­ro Ueda fol­lows up his break­out hit One Cut of the Dead with a sim­i­lar­ly enter­tain­ing and inven­tive char­ac­ter drama.
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Festivals

A Julia Fox erotic drama explores domination and digital life

by Josh Slater-Williams

She stars along­side fel­low Safdie broth­ers alum­ni Bud­dy Duress in this dark­ly fun­ny mod­ern cau­tion­ary tale.
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Festivals

The rising women of genre cinema

by Justine Smith

This year’s Fan­ta­sia Inter­na­tion­al Film Fes­ti­val in Mon­tréal show­cased an excit­ing emerg­ing crop of bound­ary-push­ing directors.
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Festivals

The self-taught filmmaking family shaking up the horror genre

by Justine Smith

Along with their daugh­ters, co-direc­tors John Adams and Toby Pos­er are win­ning fans with their alter­na­tive, home­spun approach.