366 Weird Movies may earn commissions from purchases made through product links. DIRECTED BY: Frank Miller FEATURING: Gabriel Macht, Samuel L. Jackson, Eva Mendes, Scarlett Johansson, Sarah Paulson, Paz Vega, Jaime King, Dan Lauria, Stana Katic PLOT: When the villainous Octopus terrorizes Central City in pursuit of an ancient elixir that will give him godlike … Continue reading IT CAME FROM THE READER-SUGGESTED QUEUE: THE SPIRIT (2008)
366 Weird Movies may earn commissions from purchases made through product links. DIRECTED BY: Barry Levinson FEATURING: Dustin Hoffman, Sharon Stone, Samuel L. Jackson, Liev Schreiber, Peter Coyote PLOT: A team of scientists is dispatched to the middle of the Pacific to examine a mysterious spacecraft found on the ocean floor. COMMENTS: An unexpected side … Continue reading IT CAME FROM THE READER-SUGGESTED QUEUE: SPHERE (1998)
DIRECTED BY: Alex Cox FEATURING: Sy Richardson, Joe Strummer, Dick Rude, Courtney Love PLOT: Three gangsters, with a pregnant girlfriend in tow, blow an assignment, rob a bank, and hide out in a Central American village ruled by a band of coffee-addicted desperadoes. WHY IT WON’T MAKE THE LIST: This silly, violent and absurd … Continue reading CAPSULE: STRAIGHT TO HELL (1987)
Abridgement Last year there were three fully scheduled screening rooms. This year there are only two. With a flood of dramas from Southeast Asia clogging the Festival, pickings were a little slim. But hope springs eternal as it heads into its second half. Short: “Hooligans” (dir. Adam-Gabriel Belley-Côté) After a match that could at best … Continue reading 2018 FANTASIA FESTIVAL: A THIRD SLICE OF STRANGE
It’s fashionable to rag on 2016—with good reason—but this was an excellent year in film. My honorable mentions from the year past include a couple of fantastic foreign animated features that were ignored by the mainstream press: the French steampunk fantasy April and the Extraordinary World and Michael Arias‘ Harmony, the only movie where the World … Continue reading TOP 10 MOVIES OF 2016: THE MAINSTREAM EDITION