Director Julien Knafo’s zombie horror comedy is a movie that teeters back and forth between what it’s trying to say and what it’s trying to appeal to. It identifies itself as a horror comedy and injects a lot of silliness involving zombie carnage, body horror, and even some poor animals, but mid-way it stops being funny and tries to convey some kind of social commentary. What the commentary is, exactly, is beyond me, but it never improves on the overlong, tedious exploits.
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Baby, Don’t Cry (2020) [Fantasia Film Festival 2021]
Director Jesse Dvorak’s crime drama is a bit problematic in that it’s a film that constantly jumps from theme to theme and never quite decides on what kind of story it wants to tell. It’s both about the immigrant experience in America, followed by culture shock often experienced by main character Baby. Most of the time she struggles with what she thinks are the norms for American culture, and this amounts to a script that’s never quite focused and feels ultimately under cooked.
Raging Fire (Nou Fo) (2021) [Fantasia Film Festival 2021]
When a gang attacks a group of cops during an operation, a good cop decides to do everything he can to get the members of its gang even though he had been kept out of the operation and may be more connected to the gang than he originally thinks.
The Suicide Squad (2021)
Director David Ayer’s take on DC Comics’ “Suicide Squad” is one of the classic examples of studio interference, and how it can destroy a potentially great project. Director/Writer James Gunn has a talent for highlighting the more appealing and exciting elements of more underdog comic book characters, and with “The Suicide Squad” he shows us how a lot of the time allowing a director to just create and show audiences their vision can be beneficial for everyone.
Five Films We’re Anticipating for Fantasia Film Festival 2021
For yet another year, Cinema Crazed’s own Felix Vasquez and Emilie Black will be covering the Fantasia Film Festival, and this year the Festival celebrates 25 years. Going digital once again due to COVID restrictions, Fantasia Fest will continue from August 5th to August 25th with its usual line up of groundbreaking and original foreign, fantasy, horror and action films, as well as innovative short films and showcases from unique voices from film and pop culture from all over the world.
In anticipation of the coverage, we thought we’d list five films that we’re eagerly anticipating for this year’s line up! And if you’re attending the festival digitally, these are five we hope you check out.
Let us know what you’re anticipating, below!
Ultrasound (2021) [2021 Tribeca Film Festival]
After a car problem, a man is taken in by a couple who later offer him an odd/interesting proposition. This is only the beginning of what soon becomes an odd fever-like dream.
Agnes (2021) [2021 Tribeca Film Festival]
A nun living in a convent where the paranormal seems to have taken hold sees things and meets people who change her and lead her in a new direction.