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Fantasia Blu-Ray

To celebrate the release of the brilliant Disney Epic Mickey on the Wii and the Fantasia/Fantasia 2000 Two-Movie Special Edition Blu-ray, we’ve got a host of magical prizes to give away courtesy of Disney. First Prize (and for Disney fans, you really can’t get much better than this): We have a superb grand prize – [...]




Fantasia and Fantasia 2000 Blu-ray Review

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Disney’s Fantasia is a classic film and an oddity in popular cinema. A comeback vehicle for Disney’s most famous creation, the image of Mickey clad in the robes of a sorcerer whizzing through a castle followed by a hurricane of brooms is so well known now that a single frame from the film will cause [...]




Disney Release a Trailer Showing all 50 of their Animated Features

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A few days ago, we put up the press release for the announcement that Disney are going to be showing every single one of their animated feature films at the BFI during the course of 2011. This is to celebrate the fact that their new movie, Tangled is their 50th feature release. To coincide with [...]




Fantasia 2010: The Pack Review

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The Pack (La meute) is a French horror film written and directed by Franck Richard. The film is set in rural France around a roadside diner run by the disturbing La Spack, an elderly lady with a murderous obsession and the keeper of a dark secret. Into the diner walks Charlotte (Emilie Dequenne) and a hitch-hiker, Max (Benjamin [...]




FanTasia 2010: The Loved Ones Review

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The end of year school dance is a difficult time for teenagers and the experience can go many ways. The Loved Ones shows us the pretty unique experiences of two teenage boys on the night of the school dance, one who can’t believe his luck and one who probably thinks he’s in hell. Brent, played by Xavier [...]




FanTasia 2010: At World’s End Review

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At World’s End opens deep in the Sumatran jungle where a BBC documentary crew are filming a nature programme. The Attenborough inspired presenter is looking for a rare frog which has run off at the wrong time. Frustrated he sends the local tribes-people off in search of it. Instead of the frog they find something [...]




FanTasia 2010: Ip Man 2 Review

Released in 2008 the first Ip Man film was a critical and box office hit. Part of a recent wave of high budget martial arts films coming out of Hong Kong and China that draw on the wealth of talent that the countries have to offer, often casting big stars from the late eighties/early nineties [...]




FanTasia 2010: The Violent Kind Review

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Directed by Mitchell Altieri and Phil Flores, who refer to themselves as The Butcher Brothers, The Violent Kind is their third feature film following The Hamiltons (2006) and April Fool’s Day (2008). The film begins with a sex scene between a man and woman which climaxes with the woman punching the man in the face. [...]




Mouth Off Episode 26 The Karate Kid and Fantasia Festival

The only thing to kick the Monday morning blues right in the face is here, the latest episode of the Mouth Off podcast hits the internet. Up for discussion this week is the Harald Zwart’s remake of the classic (?) 80s film The Karate Kid, this time starring Jaden Smith and the Jackie Chan. Bleeding [...]




FanTasia 2010: A Serbian Film Review

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A Serbian Film opens with a scene that effectively sets up one of the main recurring themes in the film and also gives the audience a small taste of the uncomfortable and increasingly horrified feeling they are going to experience throughout the 100 minute running time. The film opens on a porn scene which a young boy is [...]




FanTasia 2010: Herschell Gordon Lewis – The Godfather of Gore Review

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Herschell Gordon Lewis films are often far from from great films but they helped define a unique time in American exploitation cinema and films such as Blood Feast or The Wizard of Gore helped break new ground in what could be seen in film. In Herschell Gordon Lewis – The Godfather of Gore Frank Henenlotter [...]




FanTasia 2010: Air Doll Review

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The premise of Air Doll is one than will instantly alienate a lot of people which is unfortunate as it is a premise that Koreeda uses not in the most obvious ‘wacky’ way that people might expect but to investigate emotional subjects. The film is based on a Manga by Yoshiie Goda entitled The Pneumatic [...]




FanTasia 2010: 1 Review

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Based on the short story/essay One Human Minute by Stanislaw Lem, 1 is a Hungarian film adaptation by director Pater Sparrow who has created a baffling, mesmerizing and beautiful film. 1 opens with a series of clips of strange found footage depicting a variety of events from mankind’s history. It then cuts to a bookstore [...]




FanTasia 2010: [REC] 2 Review

**This review originally appeared on HeyUGuys prior to the film’s UK cinema release but in light of the recent Fantasia screening we are reposting it in case you missed it the first time.** *In the following review there are spoilers for the first [Rec] film but I have deliberately avoided discussing the exact details of [...]




FanTasia 2010: Festival Report

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If you’re a regular HeyUGuys reader you will have seen a few reviews from FanTasia 2010 on the site the past couple of days and there are still a lot more to come but I wanted to put these in context of the wonderful festival that I saw them at as it draws to a [...]




FanTasia 2010: Neverlost Review

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Josh can’t sleep and following the death of his fiancee Kate his life has got steadily worse, in part due to his incessant insomnia. His current girlfriend is cheating on him  and there appears to be little affection between the two. Desperate to get some sleep and try and get his life back in order [...]




FanTasia 2010: Black Death Review

**This review originally appeared on HeyUGuys prior to the film’s UK cinema release but in light of the recent Fantasia screening we are reposting it in case you missed it the first time.** Black Death is the latest film from British director Christopher Smith (Creep, Severance and Triangle) and stars Sean Bean and Eddie Redmayne. The film takes place [...]




FanTasia 2010: Red White & Blue Review

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UK writer/director Simon Rumley impressed me greatly with his 2006 film The Living and the Dead and I therefore had reasonably high expectations walking into the FanTasia screening of his latest film, Red White & Blue. My expectations were not only justified but they were not high enough. Red White & Blue is phenomenal and [...]




FanTasia 2010: Bodyguards and Assassins Review

Set in 1905 Bodyguards and Assassins takes place during an interesting time in Chinese history. The film’s events occur before the revolution of 1911 which was given birth to by Dr. Sun Yat-Sen. In this film Dr. Sun Yat-Sen has to escape a series of assassination attempts and the film builds to a sequence where [...]




FanTasia 2010: The Devils Review

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One thing I truly love about cinema is the way in which films can make an audience think, to ignite a spark in their minds, provoking thoughts that never would have occurred otherwise and send them off in new directions, contemplating new ideas and viewpoints. One of the most exciting ways that cinema often achieves [...]