Paris, 13th District – AFI Film Festival 2021
Romance is a complicated thing in 2021 … Director Jacques Audiard’s Paris, 13th District elegantly shows this and gives us hope. Few filmsContinue Reading
Category: AW Kautzer’s Film Review
Julia – AFI Film Festival 2021
You know when a documentary about Julia Child begins with Jimi Hendrix’s Fire you’re in for a treat. Julia the newestContinue Reading
Film Review: Detention (2020)
Director John Hsu’s debut feature is as accomplished a debut in recent memory. Detention shows us the horrors of an oppressiveContinue Reading
Film Review: Titane (2021)
Titane, writer/director Julia Ducournau follow up to her bold debut RAW, is a uniquely cinematic vision and one of the bestContinue Reading
Film Review: COPSHOP (2021)
Writer/Director Joe Carnahan and Frank Grillo are back with the action-comedy siege film COPSHOP. They’ve brought Gerard Butler along for the wildContinue Reading
Hand Rolled Cigarette – Fantasia Film Festival 2021
Double and Triple dealings meet broken souls trying to survive at the center of Hand Rolled Cigarette. The Hong Kong-based Triad ThrillerContinue Reading
Mad God – Fantasia Film Festival 2021
Decades in the making Mad God is the kind of visually stunning handcrafted work of art we rarely get nowadays. Starting withContinue Reading
Midnight – Fantasia Film Festival 2021
Midnight is a nimble and clever Thriller out of South Korea. Writer/Director Oh-seung Kwon tightly constructed cat-and-mouse thriller has aContinue Reading
Ida Red – Fantasia Film Festival 2021
This Family Crime Thriller set in the Midwest is one of the best of recent memory. Writer/Director John Swab createsContinue Reading
When I Consume You – Fantasia Film Festival 2021
A brother and sister confront their demons both literal and figurative in Writer/Director Perry Blackshear’s When I Consume You. Perry Blackshear’s WhenContinue Reading