Author: Alejandro D. Orengo Colón
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‘LIVING WITH CHUCKY’ Review: A Tender Killer Doll Family Reunion (Fantastic Fest 2022)
The Chucky franchise has been a fascinating one to observe over the past 30 years. The perseverance of this horror icon through the decades and the evolving nature of these films is truly something stunning to behold. So it’s no wonder that Kyra Elise Gardener’s Living With Chucky is a perfect encapsulation of what it’s…
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‘KING ON SCREEN’ REVIEW: A Phantasmagoric Love Letter To The King (Fantastic Fest 2022)
In the pantheon of living authors working right now, no one comes even remotely close to Stephen King in terms of his works being adapted to the big screen, and this new documentary by Daphné Baiwir really drives home why Stephen King’s works are so moldable and fitting for film and television. ‘King on Screen’…
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‘A Life on the Farm’ Review: An Ode to the Artist in All of Us (Fantastic Fest 2022)
Art can be therapeutic. It can save someone’s soul and be a gateway to cleansing the spirit. Art can transform and mold you. On a small farm in Somerset, it was everything to Charles Carson. A Life on the Farm recounts the discovery of this old videotape owned by filmmaker Oscar Harding’s grandfather, which contains…
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‘Birdemic 3: Sea Eagle’ Review: A PSA-Laden Romantic Thriller (Fantastic Fest 2022)
In the plethora of modern so-bad-it’s-good films, few have seen the massive success and notoriety as James Nguyen’s phenomenal Birdemic: Shock and Terror (2010). A movie filled with all the cheesy romance and awful apocalyptic terror you can fathom, the earnestness and naivete artistry employed by Nguyen makes it forever enigmatic to what a cult…
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‘Unidentified Objects’ Review: A Surrealist Character Space Journey (Fantastic Fest 2022)
“Do you ever wake up from a dream and it’s like you’re still dreaming?” That question suffused Colombian filmmaker Juan Felipe Zuleta’s debut feature, Unidentified Objects. It haunts the viewer into a false sense of security, questioning their own experiences and purpose on this earth. Unidentified Objects stars Peter Hobbes (Matthew August Jeffers) and Sarah…
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‘Pinocchio’ Review: A Sturdy Remake with Rotten 2022 Hollywood Business Practices
It’s been a recent practice over the last decade or so for Disney, starting with Cinderella (2015), to remake their beloved animated classics into live action. So it was purely inevitable they’d get to the very early works as an animation studio, and there hasn’t been one that screams classic Disney than this new Pinocchio remake…
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‘Charcoal’ Review (TIFF 2022): A Farcical Art House Film
There’s a point very early on in writer-director Carolina Markowicz’s debut film Charcoal where I found myself baffled by how crass and horribly earnest the new nurse (Aline Marta Maia) who came by to treat Irene’s (Maeve Jinkings) father was. Irene was innocently explaining how she hoped he could get better and the nurse just…
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‘The Umbrella Men’ Review (TIFF 2022): A Colorful Goema-filled Heist Caper
The themes of gentrification, of losing part of your legacy and heritage will always feel so universal to those who witness it first hand or live it on a day-to-day basis. The newest John Baker film is no different in this regard, tackling these ideas head-on engulfed in a fun, comedic heist film in the…
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‘FALL’ Review: A Visual Sleight-Of-Hand Vertigo Thrill Ride
In the same vein as movies about women with a specific set of skills surviving obscene circumstances in the past decade, such as The Shallows with Blake Lively, ‘Crawl’ with Kaya Scodelario, and ‘Infinite Storm’ with Naomi Watts, “FALL” directed by Scott Mann and starring Grace Caroline Currey doesn’t add anything new to this specific…
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‘Prey’ Review: A Back-To-Basics Approach to a Well-Worn Franchise
The Predator franchise has been a very prominent one in pop culture since the first film released back in 1987 with Arnold Schwarzenegger to the point where even if you haven’t seen any of the films you have a basic understanding of who the character is, what it’s purpose is and the general plot thread…
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