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Fantastic Fest Awards

It was a big night for Ugandan cinema at Fantastic Fest as Bad Black, the latest film from Wakaliwood's leading director Nabwana Igg, pulled off a major upset by winning the audience award for best feature.

6:45PM Fri. Sep. 30, 2016, Richard Whittaker Read More | Comment »

Fantastic Fest Review: Raw

College sucks for Justine. The seniors are all bullies, the lecturers don't care, her gay roommate doesn't get the whole "sock on the doorknob" thing, her sister ignores her, and then there are these odd new cravings.

1:15PM Thu. Sep. 29, 2016, Richard Whittaker Read More | Comment »

Fantastic Fest: VR Stories With Dark Corner

A filthy barn. A crumbling sanitarium. A sleazy motel. Three locations at Fantastic Fest. Or rather, they're not. They're three VR installations at Fantastic Fest, each an immersive little slice of hell.

3:40PM Wed. Sep. 28, 2016, Richard Whittaker Read More | Comment »

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Fantastic Fest Review: Sadako vs. Kayako

The horror crossover is a dangerous beast. From the lousy House of Frankenstein to the unwatchable Freddy vs. Jason, they're usually a monstrous hybrid that consumes its creator. Not so with Sadako vs. Kayako, finally mashing together Ring and The Grudge.

2:35PM Wed. Sep. 28, 2016, Richard Whittaker Read More | Comment »

Fantastic Fest Review: Don't Kill It

Here's a simple rule. When your small Mississipi town has a plague of triple homicides caused by a body-hopping demon, and Dolph Lundgren tells you Don't Kill It, you don't kill it. Capisce?

9:00AM Wed. Sep. 28, 2016, Richard Whittaker Read More | Comment »

Fantastic Fest Review: Fashionista

Call Fashionista a thrift-store The Neon Demon. But that's not an insult, or a budgetary commentary. Both fixate on fashion in a manner as stylized as couture itself, just from very different ends of the discount rack.

4:45PM Tue. Sep. 27, 2016, Richard Whittaker Read More | Comment »

Fantastic Fest Review: The Bad Batch

Ana Lily Amirpour’s follow-up to her riveting filmmaking debut, the feminist vampire film A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, is this fascinating post-apocalyptic cannibal survival tale, The Bad Batch. Although a bit shaggier than her first attention-getting debut, The Bad Batch is nevertheless a compelling work.

12:00PM Tue. Sep. 27, 2016, Marjorie Baumgarten Read More | Comment »

Austin Film Society Announces Design Firm Partnership

Austin Film Society has partnered with design firm Designtrait and architect Michael Hsu to turn the Marchesa building into a fulltime arthouse cinema with a distinct “Austin-vibe” (according to the press release). The renovations will feature a second cinema and a redesigned lounge and bar. The shiny, new theatre is scheduled to open in early 2017.

10:00AM Tue. Sep. 27, 2016, Will McCarthy Read More | Comment »

Fantastic Fest Review: The Lure

A gloriously genre-defying mashup of melodrama, romance, musical, and cultural subtext masquerading as a horror film, The Lure is utterly original and alluring even as director Agnieszka Smoczynska puts the ghastly in fishnets.

6:30PM Mon. Sep. 26, 2016, Marc Savlov Read More | Comment »

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