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Fantasia 2025: Occupy Cannes: Toxically Avenging the Decline of Independent Cinema

Fantasia 2025: Occupy Cannes: Toxically Avenging the Decline of Independent Cinema

When you think of the Cannes Film Festival, you probably think of a certain type of film, and of the event as one linked to competition. It's the arty place for art films to compete over which is the artiest of all. What you probably don't

Fantasia 2025: Blazing Fists: Entertaining, Insightful, and Overstuffed

Fantasia 2025: Blazing Fists: Entertaining, Insightful, and Overstuffed

With well over a hundred films under the belt, Takashi Miike can only ever be described as prolific. He’s also a master, though. His filmography is most charitably called eclectic but can more reasonably be called mixed. However, with that, masterpieces can be found and the one thing tying

28 Years Later: The Heavens Fall, But Still We Crawl

28 Years Later: The Heavens Fall, But Still We Crawl

How many hundreds of years have we fallen this time? The apocalypse as cultural time dilation, decades sanding down the thin line of civility that once separated us from the monsters ravaging the landscape. Isolation has destroyed us, the bridges we once built to unite us across great distances now

Fantasia Retro 2025: Reconstructing the Past

Fantasia Retro 2025: Reconstructing the Past

The retrospectives and restorations category of any film festival is always a treat, bringing new life to old favorites or resurfacing hidden gems from decades past. Restoration work is critical to the preservation, archival, and history of cinema, allowing us to ensure culturally important works are preserved in the best

Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 + 4 (Series X): It Looks Just Like Tony Hawk

Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 + 4 (Series X): It Looks Just Like Tony Hawk

The Tony Hawk's Pro Skater series is nothing short of a sensation. Not only were these four original games critically acclaimed at their time, and hugely popular, they were deeply impactful on wider culture. The soundtracks shaped the musical taste of so many (myself included) and skateboarding itself

VIDEOHEAVEN: DVD Killed the Video Store

VIDEOHEAVEN: DVD Killed the Video Store

Alex Ross Perry has spent a lot of time thinking about video rental stores. More specifically, he’s been thinking about what we can learn from their depictions on film, primarily interrogating the relationship with reality and representation, and what this representation now means that the reality has gone. The

The Alters (Series X): An Existential Survival Game that's as Cerebral as it is Strategic

The Alters (Series X): An Existential Survival Game that's as Cerebral as it is Strategic

Ever wondered how things could have been? What if you had made a different decision, could you have ended up elsewhere? Would your life be better, worse? In The Alters, one of the first things you can do is view the main character's life set out as a