fantasia festival

Review: Kung Fu Comedy THE PAPER TIGERS Is An Absolute Joy

  There’s a serious amount of fun to be had with Tran Quoc Bao’s The Paper Tigers. The writer/director/editor delivers a hugely energetic and entertaining comedy which is a joy to watch from beginning to end. The film transcends its low [...]

September 8, 2021

Trailer & Poster: Cult Comedy KING KNIGHT

King Knight looks like a quirky cult comedy. I’ve watched this trailer and I’m not quite sure what it’s about, but at least I’m curious. Isn’t that what a trailer is supposed to make you – curious? Written and [...]

August 6, 2021

Trailer For Horror Film THE CURSE OF AUDREY EARNSHAW

  Movies In Focus caught The Curse of Audrey Earnshaw when it played at the Fantasia Festival in 2020. The horror film from writer-director Thomas Robert Lee is a well acted genre piece which starts slow but it gains momentum as it goes along, [...]

September 11, 2020

Fantasia Festival Review: WOMAN OF THE PHOTOGRAPHS

A film about reflections and perceptions, Takeshi Kushida’s Woman of the Photographs is a film which illustrates how photography and photographs help craft who we are to ourselves and to others. The Japanese film is a slow moving psychological [...]

August 26, 2020