Well, the reviews site and podcast your mother warned you about is ready for another year of Fantasia Fest! But […]
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The 4th Annual North Bend Film Fest: An SR Preview
This year’s festival features some truly off-the-wall features, which we’ll get into below, as well as robust collections of short films, which we’ll get into as the festival draws ever closer. So join us as we take you behind the scenes of some of the selections from the 2021 North Ben Film Festival.
Read moreSimply Scary Soundtrack Songs Part One, 1990-1995
Horror soundtracks in the 90s were a thing of beauty. With the Grunge Generation arriving, Thrash and Death Metal thriving, […]
Read moreSR at the 2020 Nashville Film Fest: ‘The Outside Story’ Is Pure Schmaltz, and That’s Not All Bad
‘The Outside Story’ is a NEIGHBORLY film that is equal parts schmaltz and predictability, but with a cast this charming and quirky, it’s difficult to hate.
Read moreNashville Film Fest 2020: Our Simplistic Preview
Music City Here we come! Virtually of course. These are just some of the films we are looking forward in this year’s 51st edition of the festival.
Read moreA Simplistic Review: ‘Mr. Soul!’ Sings the Praises of an Unsung Hero
@Mrsoultheovie From 1968 to 1973, the public television variety show SOUL!, guided by the enigmatic producer and host Ellis Haizlip, offered an unfiltered, uncompromising celebration of Black literature, poetry, music, and politics.
Read moreA Simplistic Review: ‘We Got A Monkey’s Paw’ is Paw-some!
Things get hairy when Zack convinces Jakki to spend the day making wishes on a cursed Monkey’s Paw. Soon the two find themselves doing backflips trying to undo the cataclysmic series of events they’ve set off: Ghost brides, demon boxes, dead-y bears, oh my!
Read moreA Simplistic Review: ‘Nail in the Coffin: The Fall and Rise of Vampiro’
But as we’ve learned in other docs like ‘Beyond the Mat’ and the story of ‘GLOW’ the fall is just as epic and mythic for many titans of the squared circle.
Read moreFantasia Fest 2020: ‘For the Sake of Vicious’ is More Treat, Than Trick
Directors Gabriel Carrer & Reese Eveneshen choose to be more direct with their tidy 81-minutes and gives us a violence-laden exploitation thriller that gets the job done.
Read moreFantasia Fest 2020: ‘Feels Good Man’ Harshes the Mellow
We live in a society where the most nefarious and unscrupulous have motives to take something and twist it into their visage and create their very own totem, symbol, or rallying cry.
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