by elinkstoday | Sep 23, 2024 | Film Festival
Writer/Director Stuart Ortiz has a new feature, Strange Harvest: Occult Murder in the Inland Empire, that just celebrated the World Premiere at Fantastic Fest in Austin, TX this weekend. Although I knew going into the theater that this is not a factual documentary,...
by elinkstoday | Sep 21, 2024 | Film Festival
Faces is an award-winning short film playing at Fantastic Fest 2024 in the Short Fuse Block during the opening weekend. Written and directed by Blake Simon (Red Velvet, Goldilocks), the film recently won the Audience Award Gold for Best International Short Film at the...
by elinkstoday | Sep 21, 2024 | Film Festival
Fantastic Fest, the largest genre film festival in the US, specializing in horror, fantasy, sci-fi, and action movies from all around the world, is now upon us. Starting Thursday, September 19th in Austin, TX, there are features and shorts, too numerous to list at...
by elinkstoday | Sep 21, 2024 | Film
With a mention of the Transformers movies, some people are greatly displeased or uninterested. Others who are fans will be glad to discuss the toy line from the 1980s plus the animated television series that followed it and subsequent films. These films made over the...
by elinkstoday | Sep 16, 2024 | Film
For a film that follows a group of New York City psychics, the documentary titled Look into My Eyes might give the impression these psychics might be using hypnosis or other methods with their clients. Despite the brief synopsis, I was not sure what content to...
by elinkstoday | Sep 16, 2024 | Film
The Killer’s Game is not only an action- comedy film, it also has some romance mixed in, so fans of either of these three genres will be getting quite a story written by Rand Ravich and James Coyne, adapted from the novel by Jay Bonansinga (1997) of the same...
by elinkstoday | Sep 16, 2024 | Film
Sometimes when I read that a film is a “coming of age” story, it does not always conjure up excitement as many of the stories are not the best, original and are not very engaging. The title and Aubrey Plaza starring in this story absolutely caught my attention. Plaza...
by elinkstoday | Sep 6, 2024 | Film, Film Festival
Directed by Stephen Ward and written by actor/producer Rich Grosso, P.J. Marino, and Jessica Abrams, this is a story about romance between two mature individuals who “weren’t looking for anyone” at the time they meet, but there is interest. There is humor and drama as...
by elinkstoday | Sep 6, 2024 | Film
I recall Tim Burton’s film, Beetlejuice from a very long time ago, but imagine my surprise when I saw the release of that film was March 30, 1988. It wasn’t even released in the fall in time for Halloween that year, but as time has gone on, it might have become a...
by elinkstoday | Sep 6, 2024 | Film
Directed by Max Eggers and Sam Eggers from a screenplay the brothers co-wrote based on the short story by Susan Hill, The Front Room does not deliver the horror anticipated from the trailer. Instead of chills and thrills, there were many more in the audience who...
