This is an expanded rewrite of our original review published as part of our coverage of Fantasia 2024 A yuppie loser finds his home trashed by a trio of mischievous freaks in Frankie Freako. Conor (Conor Sweeney) is a yuppie office worker, whose boss Mr. Buechler (Adam Brooks) doesn’t believe his upcoming presentation is “spicy”…
A yuppie loser finds his home trashed by a trio of mischievous freaks in Frankie Freako. Conor (Conor Sweeney) is a yuppie office worker, whose boss Mr. Buechler (Adam Brooks) doesn’t believe his upcoming presentation is “spicy” enough and even Conor’s wife Kristina (Kristy Wordsworth) believes him to be a bit “square.” When Kristina leaves…
A teenage boy is guided by a grey heron to search for his missing stepmother in The Boy and the Heron. After previously losing his mother to a fire, Mahito Maki (Soma Santoki) travels to the countryside with his father Shoichi (Takuya Kimura) to live with Shoichi’s pregnant fiance Natsuko (Yoshino Kimura). Mahito encounters a…
A young girl with the telekinetic ability to start fires goes on the run with her father in Firestarter. When they were younger, Andy McGee (Zac Efron) and his wife Vicky (Sydney Lemmon) were subjects of a drug trial conducted by Dr. Joseph Wanless (Kurtwood Smith), which gave them telepathic and telekinetic abilities respectively. These…
A woman searching for her parents gets more than she bargained for in The Long Night. Having grown up in foster care with no idea where she’s come from, Grace (Scout Taylor-Compton) gets a lead about where she can find her birth parents. Grace heads off with her boyfriend Jack (Nolan Gerard Funk) to an…
A young artist develops a romantic connection with the woman she was hired to paint a portrait of in Portrait of a Lady on Fire. Marianne (Noémie Merlant) is a young painter, who travels to an island in eighteenth-century Brittany, where she is hired by La Comtesse (Valeria Golino) to paint a portrait of her…
A man goes to great lengths to save his family from a state of the art high rise in Skyscraper. FBI Hostage Rescue Team leader Will Sawyer (Dwayne Johnson) gets a job as a security consultant at The Pearl, a 220 story state of the art skyscraper in Hong Kong, built by Zhao Long Ji (Chin Han). As…
A repressed young woman uncovers her family’s dark secrets in The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches. In 1930s rural Quebec, a young woman (Marine Johnson) and her brother (Antoine L’Écuyer) are raised alone by their authoritarian father (Jean-François Casabonne). After their father hangs himself one night, the two siblings are left to…
A woman seeks justice for the unsolved murder of her daughter in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri. Seven months after the rape and murder of her daughter Angela, Mildred Hayes (Frances McDormand) rents three billboards on an isolated road criticizing the police department’s supposed lack of progress on the case, specifically calling out Chief Bill Willoughby (Woody…
Two artists film the events that lead up to the end of their relationship in Flames. Josephine Decker and Zefrey Throwell are New York based multidisciplinary, who are passionately in love with each other. On a whim, they decide to take a spontaneous trip with each other, which marks the beginning of the end for their love…
