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I had written previously about how the roster of Fantasia has a “Midnight Movie” vibe, and I realized this weekend that said vibe applies to the audience too. Every showing at Fantasia is full of people who...

Despite working in feature films for nearly 40 years, Denzel Washington has never until now appeared in a sequel to one of his films. Oh sure, he has done a number of films where one suspects...

Watching “Dark Tourist,” the latest Netflix Original Programming offering premiering in its entirety Friday, reminded me of two things. One, I felt a bit of a pang of sadness at the recent death of Anthony Bourdain,...

It is the middle of the night. A prisoner tries to escape from a World War 2 camp. He’s caught in barb wire. Sentry dogs bark as spotlights find him. Soldiers shoot him on sight. The...

We’re proud to present an excerpt from a new book by Jason Bailey, “It’s Okay With Me: Hollywood, The 1970s, and the Return of the Private Eye.” Synopsis (from Amazon.com): One of the cornerstones of the 1970s...

I first saw Carlos López Estrada’s Sundance hit, “Blindspotting,” during the week ABC cancelled its highest-rated show, “Roseanne,” after racist statements were posted on Twitter by its leading lady. Not long before that, the “Yanny or...

One small, consistent thrill about being in Montreal during the time of Fantasia is asking the locals what movies they’ll be seeing at the fest. The results often sound like mad-libs plot synopses, and further prove the creative...

Among its many major discoveries, the Fantasia International Film Festival can lay ownership to what can now be called the “Unfriended” franchise. In 2014, a horror movie called “Cyber National,” which took place all on one computer screen, was...

The interminable slog of Netflix’s “How It Ends” had me thinking about endings in general. How it felt like the close of this film would never come. How we so commonly return in cinema, especially lately,...

The signature promotional image of “Skyscraper,” the latest Dwayne Johnson summer extravaganza, features the charismatic blockbuster star hanging from a soaring building by only his left hand. His wedding ring gleams prominently in the foreground, illuminated...