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Spoiler-Free Reviews: 1978 and SOLVENT (Dark Nights Film Festival)

1978   Codirectors Luciano and Nicolás Onetti craft a marvelously macabre fright-fare outing with 1978 (Argentina, 2024). Set in Argentina in the titular year, and specifically during both a military dictatorship and the World Cup match...

Spoiler-Free Reviews: TOUCHED BY ETERNITY and HEAVIER TRIP (Fantastic Fest)

Touched by Eternity Writer/director Mārcis Lācis serves up an intriguing, amusing feature with his Latvian philosophical horror dramedy Touched by Eternity. Fatso (Andris Keišs) longs for immortality, though why he desires that isn’t clearly...

Checking out some Halloween goodies from Dylan’s Candy Bar!

Halloween is coming, but why wait till then to enjoy some candy? There's candy all over the place in stores at the moment and we can argue till the cows come home which candy is the best and assign them to tier lists, but unfortunately, there's a...

Spoiler-Free Review: THE SEVERED SUN (Fantastic Fest)

Writer/director Dean Puckett’s The Severed Sun (U.K., 2024) is an engrossing work that takes folk horror elements and sets them in an ambiguous time period — the story could be taking place in the past but a couple of items suggest that it could...