Author: Adam Charles
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The Essential Samurai Films of Toshiro Mifune
Samurai Supreme. Film SAT analogy question number 1: John Wayne is to cowboy as Toshiro Mifune is to ___________. No multiple choice provided. No multiple…
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Too Late’s Style and Craft Arrive Right on Time
This may be the best straightforward California-noir since Altman’s The Player.
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April and the Extraordinary World Is Extraordinarily Original With Ordinary Characters
Gkids It’s 19th century France, and – in the world of this story – Napoleon Bonaparte remained in power long enough to pass control of…
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Zoom Is Too Ambitiously High-Concept For Its Own Good
Elevation Pictures Read more of our Fantastic Fest 2015 coverage here. Alison Pill is Emma, an aspiring comic book artist who earns her living making real-girl…
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Man vs Snake Is the Best Documentary About a Game You’ve Never Heard Of
Read more of our Fantastic Fest 2015 coverage here. A few years back the documentary The King of Kong chronicled the underdog story of a man,…
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Liza The Fox Fairy Channels The Best of Jeunet
FilmTeam Of the thousands of pictures released around the world in a given year, maybe a few tens of them appear as complete creations of…
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Mamoru Hosada’s Favorite Themes Come to Fruition In The Boy and the Beast
FUNimation Entertainment Read more of our Fantastic Fest 2015 coverage here. Mamoru Hosoda has been one of the more reliable creators of coming-of-age cinema for the…
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February Asks That You Sympathize With the Devil
A24 Read more of our Fantastic Fest 2015 coverage here. Kat (Kiernan Shipka) is a lonely wallflower at a boarding school in the upper East Coast.…
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The Assassin Is Too Stealthy to Engage
Well Go USA Read more of our Fantastic Fest 2015 coverage here. Hsiao-Hsien Hou has long been one of world cinema’s most revered storytellers. His films are…