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Meet the team running things! Once again, because this is the tightest-scheduled festival you will ever see and (presumably) because of covid concerns, there was no Q&A in the theater for the animation package, but if you've got questions, the...

I've totally been holding onto that review of Everything Everywhere All at Once so that I could pair it with another movie as opposed to being lazy and distractible for the past two weeks. (Looks back and forth) Not buying it, huh? Anyway, it's ki...

Not a whole lot of guests in the movies I went to on Sunday, but as the halfway mark, it's another good chance to do some counting: 35 features, 26 shorts, 9 attached and 17 as part of two programs. That actually gets my feature pace down a bit, to...

Okay, this is taking longer than expected, but, to be fair, there is a lot of other stuff coming out that needs/wants writing up. Maybe I'll pick up speed writing while watching baseball and as it gets cooler out, but I really wasn't expecting to ha...

Going to have to circle back around for Sunday, because it was shorts day, and there's twenty of those things which probably take a half-hour each to write up even if they only lasted five minutes. Remember that the next time you say critics are pai...

Trying to pull ahead of the one-month line and not quite managing to do so. Of course, the really scary thing is that there's six months of other stuff backed up behind this. It is somewhat interesting to see what that (currently) 32-day-gap does t...

With the first movie I hadn't seen not starting until two, I decided to give the VR Experience another shot, this time with the Oculus Rift and "Body/Mind/Change Redux", a Cronenberg-inspired (and hosted) short that fuses bits from his movi...

This blog has been a bit of a flurry of "not seeing/writing about as many movies as I'd like because I'm moving" over the past few weeks, and if it ends with this post, it's mainly because it becomes The Fantasia Daily for the next few week...

Of all the Oscar categories, the nominees for the Live-Action shorts may be the ones that are the ones likely to seem the least relevant to the average viewer. There are touring animation shows, and depending on the length, they may wind up shared w...

Sunday tended to follow the pattern established on Saturday, and I think it's one that recurs for a weekend day or two at Fantasia every year: Play the stuff that has its own constituency on weekend afternoons when the folks who were up watching mid...

I say this in nearly everything I write about the Boston Sci-Fi Film Festival, at least over the past couple of years when it added a week-long screening series in front of the long-running marathon, but it's true: I want it to succeed. I want it t...

It's a sparse week, but Christmas shopping and Christmas visiting are priorities. Besides, it creates a nifty sort of theme week - all foreign films, but making their way to the United States in necessarily different ways:I probably think about dist...

Merry Christmas, readers.I don't have much time to spend on this today - I've still got brothers and parents to Christmas-shop for and right around four hours to do it and wrap them before another brother arrives to bring me to Maine (because it's no...