by Todd Brown, October 10, 2009 7:00 PM
[Yes, Cold Souls' time has come and gone in North America but with the film screening here at the Sitges Festival now seems a good time to revisit one of the years quiet gems.] A darkly absurd, surreal high...
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by Todd Brown, October 10, 2009 6:52 PM
[This review originally ran when Indonesian slasher Macabre premiered at PiFan. We're republishing it now with the film having just had its European premiere at Sitges.] The premise is familiar: A van full of friends traveling through the remote...
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by Todd Brown, October 4, 2009 11:37 AM
To all of those out there who began to have visions of a full on samurai epic when the heard Ghost In The Shell director Mamoru Oshii had scripted a new animated feature based on the life of legendary...
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by Todd Brown, September 29, 2009 11:19 AM
[This review originally appeared as part of our PiFan 2009 coverage and re-appears now with the film screening at Fantastic Fest.] it is the early 1900s and Jin-Ho is master of his own destiny. Ignoring the social unrest around...
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by Todd Brown, September 26, 2009 11:38 AM
Those bemoaning the somewhat overly-sanitary monopoly the folks at Walden currently hold on the world of child and tween oriented fantasy, take heart. Black Sheep director Jonathan King has arrived with his adaptation of popular New Zealand novel -...
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by Todd Brown, September 25, 2009 11:43 AM
[In honor of the North American premiere of Indonesian martial arts film Merantau I'm pulling forward my review of the film from its world premiere at PiFan. The version screened at Fantastic Fest is significantly different from that screened...
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by Todd Brown, July 24, 2009 2:56 AM
Though festival screenings will continue for a couple more days last night marked the last film to premiere at the 2009 edition of PiFan and, along with that, the official awards selection and distribution of awards. And it's pretty...
by Todd Brown, July 21, 2009 3:36 PM
A huge audience favorite here in PiFan - where it had its world premiere and currently holds an audience rating better than 9 out of 10 - anthology horror film The Neighbor Zombie features a series of short films...
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by Todd Brown, July 21, 2009 3:23 PM
This is not a review, per se, but more a public thank you to the organizers of PiFan for the chance to see 1963 Czechoslovakian science fiction film Ikarie XB 1 - released on these shores as Voyage To...
by Todd Brown, July 21, 2009 3:02 PM
Dumb as a bag of rocks and plagued with plot and logic holes you could drive a truck through, not to mention a wildly cliche and simplistic 'rich man bad, poor kid good' ethos, Richard Jobson squanders some solid...
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