Fantasia Festival: Honeko Akabane's Bodyguards
★★ | Delightfully silly and with great performances, Honeko Akabane's Bodyguards is sadly overstuffed and undercooked.
★★ | Delightfully silly and with great performances, Honeko Akabane's Bodyguards is sadly overstuffed and undercooked.
★★ | Visually dazzling and with great performances to boot, Alien: Earth suffers from irratic pacing and an inconsistent tone that tear apart any terror the series can muster.
★★★★ | Mixing found footage with cosmic horror and broad satire, Buffet Infinity is a deceptively smart satire on a society gone rogue.
★★★★ | An exquisitely crafted adult fairy tale that leaves the viewer shaken to their core.
★★★ | The Fantastic Four is a perfectly fine sci-fi adventure that suffers from Marvel's inability to let the characters do anything else except advertise the next movie in the pipeline.
★★★★ | Smartly directed with old-school thrills, Oddity is a masterclass in sustained suspense.
★★★ | Too long and sluggishly paced, Osiris is nonetheless a surprisingly inventive and charming sci-fi-actioner worthy of a Friday night rental.
★★★★★ | Rian Johnson's winning series returns with another banger of a season.
★★★★★ | Bravely redefining the epic hero for the modern era, James Gunn reinvents Superman by reminding us of the politics and aspirational qualities of The Man of Steel.
This oddball horror comedy is an acquired taste and the pristine 4K is solid, if unremarkable. For fans only.
★★★★★ | Sandman Season 2 is yet another pitch-perfect adaptation of a classic graphic novel. If only Gaiman's ugly shadow didn't loom so heavily over it.
Lethal Weapon hasn't aged exactly gracefully, but there's still a lot to love in its rough charm, especially as the 4K release is superlative.