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Sheep Without a Shepherd (2019) [Fantasia Festival 2020]
A husband and father will do almost anything to protect his wife and daughter after extreme measured had to be taken to protect themselves.
Crazy Samurai Musashi (2020) [Fantasia Festival 2020]
An action-filled telling of Miyamoto Musashi’s most famous battle where he defeated 588 enemies, this film is a 77 minute fight sequence with intro and conclusion added around it.
Baby: The Secret Diary of a Mom to Be (2019) [Fantasia Festival 2020]
A young woman about to climb the ladder in her career after years of hard work and effort finds herself pregnant unexpectedly. This delights her mother-in-law who begins a series of overbearing, meant to help actions.
Yummy (2019) [Fantasia Festival 2020]
A young woman travels to a remote plastic surgery clinic to get a breast reduction with her boyfriend and her mother who loves getting plastic surgery. Once there, things go sideways and a virus is unleashed in the clinic, making the people therein ravenous and crazed.
Padmavyuha (2020)
Raj Krishna is a fantastic director, one who has promise to bring audiences entertainment with substance. While I’m never a big fan of films about religion and affirming religion, it’s a good change of pace to see a film like “Padmavyuha” that explore the complex and unique dimensions of Hinduism and how a man struggles with his core beliefs and his all encompassing faith.
Yummy (2019) [Fantasia Festival 2020]
Now Streaming Exclusively on Shudder
Lars Damoiseaux’s “Yummy” reminded me a lot of the sub-plot in Robert Altman’s “The Player” where the two aspiring executives have an idea for the opening of a drama. Tim Robbins’ character snickers behind their backs that they have a movie with no second act. “Yummy” is a movie with a great concept, but no real execution behind it. It’s a gory darkly comic zombie movie set in a plastic surgeon’s office… and then… not much else happens beyond that.