by elinkstoday | Sep 17, 2025 | Film Festival
Fantastic Fest is celebrating its 20th anniversary with films from around the world. This year’s lineup features 45 World Premieres, 15 International and North American Premieres, and 12 U.S. Premieres. If you have attended Fantastic Fest before like I have, you know...
by elinkstoday | Sep 17, 2025 | Film Festival
Fantastic Fest is celebrating its 20th anniversary with films from around the world. Fantastic Fest’s 20th anniversary lineup features 45 World Premieres, 15 International and North American Premieres, and 12 U.S. Premieres. If you have attended Fantastic Fest before,...
by elinkstoday | Sep 11, 2025 | Film
When people hear that The Long Walk is a Stephen King novel, the first thought is it is a horror film (because of his more recent work). Believe me, it does have horrific scenes, but this dystopian story is one that he started writing in the mid-1960s (his first novel...
by elinkstoday | Sep 5, 2025 | Film
Sam Haye’s directorial debut feature, Pools, is the 2024 SXSW Sydney Audience Award Winner and had the North American Premiere at TIFF Next Wave. Pools had a sold-out screening at the festival that features a breakout performance from Odessa A’zion (Until Dawn,...
by elinkstoday | Sep 4, 2025 | Community, Film Festival, Food & Beverage, Music
Centroamericanto Fest 2025 celebrates its 17th edition with two days filled with Central American culture. Friday, September 19th will be dedicated to film and Saturday the 20th to music, dance, and gastronomy. Centroamericanto Fest has become a cultural festival that...
by elinkstoday | Aug 29, 2025 | Film
A film regarded as a “coming of age” story can be perceived in a couple of ways. Some people may want to pass on viewing it because it may be formulaic and predictable. I try not to set expectations and am open to seeing what the filmmakers offer. How creative is it...
by elinkstoday | Aug 28, 2025 | Film Festival
The Oscar-Qualifying HollyShorts Film Festival recently wrapped this month and two films that I viewed from filmmaker Oanh-Nhi Nguyen are very impressive. She is an AFI Conservatory MFA graduate. Both of her films were screened at the TCL Chinese Theater earlier this...
by elinkstoday | Aug 28, 2025 | Film
The Whale filmmaker, Darren Aronofsky directs his new film Caught Stealing with Austin Butler (Elvis,2022) in the lead role as Hank. A talented baseball player in his younger years, the athlete had a promising career in New York, and now he is a bartender. The...
by elinkstoday | Aug 25, 2025 | Film
From writers/directors Juan González and Nando Martínez, comes The Fantastic Golem Affairs, an absurdist Spanish sci-fi comedy that was offered internationally during the 2023 film festivals, Fantasia and Fantastic Fest (Austin, TX) among others. The film is about...
by elinkstoday | Aug 22, 2025 | Film
In the past I have enjoyed films by writer/director Ethan Coen, and while I liked several parts of his new film Honey Don’t! I felt a bit unfulfilled by the time the credits rolled. It almost felt like when the Rev. Drew Devlin (Chris Evans) is discussing “submission”...
