Fasten your seatbelts because Sofie Somoroff and Celina Bernstein are here to take you on one wickedly revved up journey with the short film Ride Baby Ride!
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Yorgos Lanthimos reteams with Emma Stone and Tony McNamara for his latest extravagant and strange offering, Poor Things, which earned him a Golden Lion at the Venice International Film Festival. Based on the Scottish novel by Alasdair Gray, the film is a wildly imaginative and wickedly funny dark comedy, rich in theme, character, and color, that combines elements of gothic romance, fantasy, and sci-fi into an absolutely unforgettable cinematic confection.
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Writer/director Eddie Alcazar latest sci-fi vision, Divinity, had its Texas premiere at Fantastic Fest. Set in an interesting retro-futuristic world full of surreal oddity, the film is a visually stunning slow burn that lightly explores its themes, resulting in an experience that pleases the eye, but can’t quite engage the mind or forge an emotional connection.
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For his 26th feature film, Killers Of The Flower Moon, legendary director Martin Scorsese reteams with Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro and forges a tight bond with the Osage nation to respectfully and authentically tell this true story of Indigenous injustice. Based off the book of the same name by David Grann which focuses more on the investigation of the sinister murders of the Osage, Scorsese interestingly pivots the film’s focus to the love and betrayal that rests at the center of the tragic story, yielding profound and sobering results.
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Writer/director Andrew Morgan returns with Texas, USA, an inspiring documentary about the fight for real and lasting change in Texas and beyond. Following an array of candidates and organizers from across Texas, including then-candidates Greg Casar, Beto O’Rourke, and Lina Hidalgo, the film tells a story of humanity, hope, and persistence amidst a seemingly bleak political landscape full of enormous obstacles and oppressive policies.
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Fantastic Fest kicks off this year’s festival with the world premiere of Macon Blair’s The Toxic Avenger. This is a studio reimagining of the 1984 Troma cult classic that is totally true to its vibe but also moves in its own direction. The film is a great homage with a fresh twist that’s wonderfully wacky, extremely gory, and absolutely hysterical. If you’re anything like us, you will be delighted to see the Toxic Avenger make his return!
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Thar she blows! Writer/director Neil Ferron creates a wild, weird, and wonderful wave of mermaid mutilation with his short film, Fishmonger. The film had its world premiere at this year’s Fantastic Fest and was even one of the first shorts to be programmed as a part of festival’s Burnt End section, a collection of films that “shatter all traditional borders of taste and convention."
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Spanish director David Velduque's new work, Transción, had its world premiere at this year’s Fantastic Fest, screening in its Short Fuse section, a shorts block that delivers “cutting-edge horror that will make you ponder the uncanny.” The film focuses on the abandonment suffered by elderly trans people and delivers unnerving atmosphere and creepy body horror.
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Writer/director Sam Fox latest horror-comedy hybrid, Fck’n Nuts, certainly lives up to its name — and in more way than one. The short has had a phenomenal festival run and recently screened in Fantastic Fest’s Short Fuse section, a shorts block that delivers “cutting-edge horror that will make you ponder the uncanny.”
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Following his overly complicated spy thriller Tenet, Christopher Nolan returns to cinema’s with a booming biopic about the modern Prometheus, J. Robert Oppenheimer. Epic in scope but intimate in feel, Oppenheimer boasts Nolan’s most explosive ensemble cast to date and creates a stimulating historical thriller that rattles and shakes with compelling contemplation.
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Following the success of Shiva Baby, Emma Seligman returns with Bottoms, an outrageously over-the-top sendup of American teen sex comedies. Rereading with Rachel Sennett (who also co-wrote the screenplay alongside Seligman) and adding Ayo Edebiri into the mix, the film delivers one razor-sharp and hilarious satirical haymaker that will have you spurting blood and laughter.
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Greta Gerwig dismantles the patriarchy and more in the biggest, boldest, and most stupid-fun smash of the summer! Tackling a complex array of themes, Gerwig finds a way to have her cake and it too, simultaneously criticizing and celebrating Barbie to create an ode to artifice that joyously peels back the plastic surface to find the humanity and spirituality deep within. Don’t be fooled, this Barbie is for everyone.
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It wouldn’t be summer without a bit of camp, and Theater Camp is here to deliver the goods! “Cue the cocaine,” this hilarious and heartfelt mockumentary is a rip-snorting sendup of theater culture that features a winning ensemble of child and adult talent. This is one show you won’t wanna miss!
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The twin brothers behind the YouTube channel RackaRacka, Danny and Michael Philippou, make the leap to features with attitude and aplomb in their debut horror film, Talk To Me. With a fresh new slant on the “cursed object” sub-genre and a stellar breakout performance from Sophie Wilde, the Philippou brothers craft a near-perfect fright fest with one helluva grip. Viewer beware: this Aussie flick will take you down under in more ways than one.
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Daniel Goldhaber concocts quite the incendiary eco-terrorist thriller with his sophomore effort, How To Blow Up A Pipeline. Based off the book of the same name penned by Andreas Malm, Goldhaber takes Malm’s message of sabotage as a valid and justified form of climate activism and puts it into compelling — and exciting — practice.
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Nicolas Cage gives horror icon Count Dracula the “Nouveau Shamanic” treatment in Chris McKay’s latest film, Renfield. Despite nearly staking itself in the heart with some weak subplots, this batty horror comedy proves to be a decent amount of silly, gory, disposable fun.
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Enys Men is the latest feature film from Cornish filmmaker Mark Jenkin, and it reaffirms his penchant for crafting haunting and poetic stunners. A logical progression of his previous film, Bait, the film finds Jenkin expanding his experimentation and atmospheric dread in more elusive, eerie, and unsettling ways to create an English folk horror unlike any other.
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Ari Aster returns to take audiences on an epically wild and decidedly weird guilt trip with his third feature, Beau Is Afraid. Big, bold, and ballsy, this three-hours long Freudian epic is ostensibly Aster’s very own Magnolia; an expensive, stylish indulgence that finds him wholeheartedly swinging for the fences at the risk of alienating his audience for the sake of art. Results will vary, but it’s a total winner to us.
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The filmmaking duo behind Haunt (2019), Scott Beck and Bryan Woods, pivot from horror to sci-fi/fantasy in their latest flick, 65. The film brings a futuristic edge and a time travel plot to the prehistoric period, pitting Adam Driver against dinosaurs in a lightly tense family-focused race-against-the clock thriller. It’s nothing new or particularly exciting, but it’s enjoyable enough dumb-fun.
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Infinity Pool is the third feature from Canadian filmmaker Brandon Cronenberg, and it takes audiences on another horrific and twisted sci-fi/horror trip. This go around, it’s a sunny, all-inclusive resort set in some surreal alternate reality, and it plays like a sadistic White Lotus for kinky weirdos. The film finds Cronenberg expanding in scope and solidifying his own singular style.
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