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Fantastic Fest 2008: Movie Batch #2 Has Been Announced!
Filed under: Action, Animation, Drama, Foreign Language, Horror, Independent, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Thrillers, Mystery & Suspense, Shorts, Fantastic Fest, Comic/Superhero/Geek, Remakes and Sequels  A few weeks back we learned that flicks such as Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer, Let the Right One In, The Tingler and Eagle Eye would be playing at the fourth annual Fantastic Fest in Austin -- and now we have batch number two! (And if you're wondering why I give a little genre fest so much blog-love, all I'll say is...
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Fantastic Fest '08 Announces First Bunch of Freaky Films
Filed under: Action, Animation, Comedy, Documentary, Drama, Foreign Language, Horror, Independent, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Thrillers, Mystery & Suspense, Shorts, Family Films, Fantastic Fest, Comic/Superhero/Geek Aw yeah, this is just about my own personal version of Christmas Eve. The first wave of titles for the Austin's lovely Fantastic Fest has splattered into my inbox, so instead of me rambling on about how great Austin is in late September, especially if you're a massive fan of films gory, scary, sexy, twisted and weird, I'll...
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Review: Postal
Filed under: Action, Comedy, Theatrical Reviews, Fantastic Fest, Cinematical Indie 
(We're re-posting our Postal review from Fantastic Fest in conjunction with the film's theatrical release this weekend.)
There's been a little pre-release buzz on this Postal flick, most of which seems to focus on the assertion that it's either A) Uwe Boll's best film yet, or B) Uwe Boll's first good movie. Well, considering that we're talking about the guy who directed House of the Dead, Alone in the Dark and BloodRayne, "best film yet" doesn't mean a whole hell of a lot. And as far as Uwe's "first good movie" is...
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David Cronenberg Digging the 'Timecrimes' Remake?
Filed under: Foreign Language, Horror, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sundance, Magnolia, United Artists, Fantastic Fest, Remakes and Sequels  The last time I saw my awesome amigo Nacho Vigalondo, it was at a Sundance party during which he was A) very thrilled to have his film play the festival, B) mega-elated that writer/producer Steven Zaillian would be involved in the English-language remake of his film (Timecrimes), and C) seriously drunk and hanging out with an overworked karaoke machine. When I pressed him for additional details, he said something to the effect of "I don't know yet, but .... Steve SALE-IAN, man!...
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Sundance Interview: 'Timecrimes' Director Nacho Vigalondo
Filed under: Foreign Language, Horror, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sundance, Mystery & Suspense, Magnolia, Fantastic Fest, Interviews 
A few months back I was fortunate enough to meet up with a powerfully friendly Spaniard called Nacho Vigalondo. He was attending the Fantastic Fest in Austin, and he was there with his first feature film, the very well-received Timecrimes. How well-received? Strong enough that the Sundance programmers took note and snatched the flick for one of their Park City at Midnight slots! (Plus Jette liked it!) So we figured we'd grab a quick chat with Nacho before he becomes the next big...
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Fantastic Feud Footage!
Filed under: Horror, Fandom, Fantastic Fest  OK, I'm sharing this video clip with you despite the fact that, like most of you, I hate seeing myself on video and I hate the sound of my own voice. But the guys over at Dell Lounge were kind enough to put together a video package from my game-show hosting debut, and it just seems right that I share my humiliation on a massive scale.
The very brief and uneventful history of Fantastic Feud: About nine days before Fantastic Fest '07 began, I asked Alamo Drafthouse Lord Tim League if I could help out in some small way. "Perhaps I...
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'Timecrimes' Gets Picked Up by Magnolia
Filed under: Foreign Language, Independent, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Deals, Magnolia, Distribution, Fantastic Fest, Cinematical Indie Nacho Vigalondo's Timecrimes, which won the top prize at Fantastic Fest, has been picked up for distrib by Magnolia Pictures. The film, Vigalondo's feature film debut, explores the idea of time travel through a tale about a man who travels back in time and runs into himself, thus setting in motion a chain of events with consequences he never imagined. Vigalondo's 2003 short film, 7:35 in the Morning, was Oscar-nommed, but lost out to Wasp by Andrea...
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Fantastic Fest Review: Timecrimes
Filed under: Foreign Language, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Theatrical Reviews, Fantastic Fest, Cinematical Indie
One of the most pleasant surprises of Fantastic Fest this year was Timecrimes (Los Cronocrimenes), which had its world premiere at the Austin fest -- and won the top prize. I went to the second screening at the festival after the audience at the first screening urged the rest of us not to miss it. Not only was the movie itself supposed to be good, but Spanish writer/director Nacho Vigalondo's Q&A was also getting buzz. (The funniest parts are unsuitable for family reading.)...
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Fantastic Fest '07: The Wrap-Up
Filed under: Action, Animation, Comedy, Documentary, Foreign Language, Horror, Independent, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Thrillers, Mystery & Suspense, Shorts, Fantastic Fest, Comic/Superhero/Geek, Remakes and Sequels, Cinematical Indie 
(Click on the image above to head straight to Cinematical's Fantastic Fest 2007 photo gallery)
I just spent the last seven days at the 3rd annual Fantastic Fest in Austin, Texas ... and I think I need to start seeing a therapist. There's just no freakin' way that a person should be able to call this "work." But let's be...
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Fantastic Fest Review: Spiral
Filed under: Thrillers, Theatrical Reviews, Fantastic Fest, Cinematical Indie 
If you've seen the horror flick Hatchet, you might have preconceived notions about filmmaker Adam Green, and therefore about Spiral, which he co-directed with Joel David Moore, and which screened at Fantastic Fest a year after Hatchet played there so successfully. But you'd be wrong -- this film has very little in common with the old-school horror of Hatchet. Spiral is an odd film, a combination of indie-relationship film and thriller that stands on the precipice of gory horror and threatens to dive into...
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