Fantastic Fest

Austin-based cinema-eatery Alamo Drafthouse is giving genre films their due via a new programming series designed to bring the best in genre to cinephile...

Conflict is the basis of drama, and there are few dramatic conflicts as powerful as the exploration of class. Everyone alive feels that conflict...

Rian Johnson's Knives Out is an engine of perfect entertainment. From the opening moments, we are swept into the story and characters, and it feels...

Robert Eggers' The Witch (or The VVitch if you prefer) is a polarizing film. Now that we have a little distance from it, and now...

Eddie Murphy is back. The best Eddie Murphy movies are those where it feels like he has something to prove. It's been a few years...

These days, science fiction films aren't necessarily about the ideas, but the spectacle.  Many have several hundred million-dollar budgets, gigantic CGI moments, and actors...

I have been obsessed with Alien since I was nine years old, and my parents refused to take me to a movie theater to see...

H. P. Lovecraft is a notoriously difficult author to adapt to film. There have been a thousand riffs off his work over the years,...

Young Jojo Betzler (Roman Griffin Davis) is a good little Nazi. He worships Adolf Hitler - so much so that he imagines Adolf (Taika...

Fantastic Fest will be honoring the career of Japanese maestro Takashi Miike with a lifetime achievement award and a special screening of The Happiness of...

Fantastic Fest has announced its second wave of programming (see the first wave here), led by a closing night screening of writer-director Rian Johnson’s...

Fantastic Fest 2019 announced today that the Taika Waititi's anti-hate satire Jojo Rabbit will premiere at the festival as the opening film. In Jojo Rabbit, a...