30 Years of Fantasia: 2024 Reviews at Cinema-Crazed [Fantasia 2026]
As it is the 30th Anniversary of Fantasia, we (well, I on behalf of the team and site) will reshare reviews we’ve done for the fest including those done during the fest and those done for films that have played at the fest that we reviewed at other times to give an idea of the scope of Fantasia and how important it is for the film industry as a whole.
You Are The Film [2026] [Fantasia 2026]
Two moviegoers’ lives get intertwined when they realize both are starring in the movie the other is watching. Yes, that’s a confusing sentence. But you’ll figure it out as you watch Makota Ueda’s wonderfully trippy You Are The Film, now playing as part of the Fantasia Film Festival.
Brother Martin: Servant of Jesus (1942)
Most film historians have exiled Spencer Williams to the fringes of cinema history, a situation based on both his race and the circumstances in which he worked. During the 1940s, he was the only prolific African American director – albeit in a series of cheaply-made, independently-produced features for a company out of Dallas that were distributed for exhibition in racially segregated cinemas serving the nation’s black population.
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30 Years of Fantasia: 2025 Reviews at Cinema-Crazed [Fantasia 2026]
As it is the 30th Anniversary of Fantasia, we (well, I on behalf of the team and site) will reshare reviews we’ve done for the fest including those done during the fest and those done for films that have played at the fest that we reviewed at other times to give an idea of the scope of Fantasia and how important it is for the film industry as a whole.
Tight Lettuce (2026) [Fantasia 2026]
A man decides to make a documentary about his father’s life while attempting to lead him to sobriety. Soon he finds that perhaps his father has other ideas.