I really have to give it to Jane Kaczmarek who stars in “And Now I Lay Me Down.” She really is a marvel in what is a pretty gut wrenching movie that approaches a serious topic with a tongue in cheek. Kaczmarek is essentially the only cast member in the entirety of Rani DeMuth’s short drama comedy and commands a lot of the screen with such an immense powerful and intense sadness.
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Baby Assassins: Nice Days (aka Baby Walkure: Naisu Deizu) (2024) [Fantasia Film Festival 2024]
Chisato and Mahiro finally are on vacation, things relaxing (maybe), but not for long. Soon, colleagues show up and they learn that they now need to go back to work.
VOÏVOD: We Are Connected [Fantasia Film Festival 2024]
A documentary about the 40 years history of VOÏVOD through interviews, photos, and videos.
A Two Hearted Tale (2023)
Dave Chappelle asked for a Bell’s Beer during a comedy set in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Taking a sip, he casually called out, “The Two-Hearted Ale? Why the hell did you put a fish on the label? ” This is the story of that iconic trout label adorning the most popular it IPA beer in America, and its eccentric artist, Ladislav Hanka.
The Silent Planet (2024) [Fantasia Film Festival 2024]
Following a sentence for hard labor off planet, 2 inmates find themselves in the same location unexpectedly. Once together, they start finding a bit of humanity in each other before losing a bit of their senses.
Tiki Tiki (1971) [Fantasia Film Festival 2024]
Fantasia Retro 2024
Animation buffs might end up appreciating and loving this oddity by Canadian filmmaker and animator Gerald Potterton based mainly on how it was conceived. On its own, “Tiki Tiki” is a gigantic mess of a movie that tries to fit a square peg in to a circle hole. At seventy minutes, Potterton’s film is packed with about forty minutes of filler. Most of the filler is comprised of random scenes of people dressed as monkeys, and nigh endless musical numbers. And what kind of musical numbers per se? It’s mostly funk and soul music, which when viewed in context, is absolutely awkward.
Most times Potterton almost seems to forget that this is kind of an animated movie pitting his characters as back drops for an incredibly dull story about pirates and Monchhichis.
Les Écorchés – Partie 1 [Fantasia Film Festival 2024]
As the new kid in town, Sam makes friends with a local group of teens who loves ghost stories and comic books.