I’m going to Fantastic Fest 2026!
I’m lucky enough to be attending Fantastic Fest again this year! This time I will be attending remotely strapped into a chair of the CG Viewatorium (and Sachin Hingoo might be if he survives TIFF 2026). I’ll be sharing first impressions and reviews here at Monstrous Industry and at the Gutter. In the meantime, here’s some of the movies I’m interested in this year. Every … Continue reading I’m going to Fantastic Fest 2026!
No Longer Prey: On Situational Awareness, A Wounded Fawn (2022), and Kuroneko (1968)
One afternoon, I was out listening to music on a walk. A guy stopped me on the sidewalk in front of a church to inform me that walking around outside with both earbuds in isn’t safe. He thought I didn’t realize it’s important to be able to hear my surroundings. I listened, bemused, because any grown woman, no matter how sheltered you believe her to … Continue reading No Longer Prey: On Situational Awareness, A Wounded Fawn (2022), and Kuroneko (1968)
“Mad Bruv Summer with AEW All-In 2026!”
Every year my pal Sachin Hingoo shares his predictions and thoughts about the outcomes of AEW’s annual All-In wrestling extravaganza with Jeffery X Martin and other sickos at Biff Bam Pop. I’m not exactly a sicko, so I was honored when he asked if I’d be willing to share any predictions or thoughts. Summertime, and the living is easy for wrestling fans craving the grandeur … Continue reading “Mad Bruv Summer with AEW All-In 2026!”
Fantasia 2026: Attack On Paradise (Netherlands / Belgium, 2026)
Attack on Paradise is a thoroughly satisfying action movie. It embraces the conceits of 1990s and early 2000s action movies that Jason Statham has been the current standard-bearer for. It’s a throwback to fun Hollywood stuff starring Jean-Claude Van Damme and Jet Li in his later career. It’s not as polished or well-funded as Hollywood and Hong Kong action movies, but if we’ve learned anything … Continue reading Fantasia 2026: Attack On Paradise (Netherlands / Belgium, 2026)
A Witchy Way of Feeling: Avalon Fast’s Camp (Canada, 2025)
On their website, Avalon Fast describes their intense, zero budget first feature, Honeycomb (2022) as “a way of feeling. A slow mindless space has been written with borderless rules and time to fill. The girls push for a meaning that is hardly there, struggling to reach out, grab it, and lock it in a box. Sometimes the girls find themselves feeling as though they were more … Continue reading A Witchy Way of Feeling: Avalon Fast’s Camp (Canada, 2025)
