All posts by Michael Haffner
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Fantastic Fest 2014: EVERLY – The Review
Sometimes a film is centered around a strong female lead. Other times it is centered around a cheap...
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Fantastic Fest 2014: TOMBVILLE – The Review
A nightmare is a creepy experience but ultimately short-lived. In the moment it can take you to a dark...
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Fantastic Fest 2014: V/H/S: VIRAL – The Review
What started as a clever way of combining the current found footage trend and fun anthology horror has...
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Fantastic Fest 2014: SPRING – The Review
Walking into a film completely blind and letting it take you to a new and foreign place is an...
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Fantastic Fest 2014: HORNS – The Review
A film not yet released after having previously premiered over a year ago isn’t necessarily a good sign...
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Fantastic Fest 2014: Red Carpet Interview and Premiere of MY LIFE DIRECTED BY NICOLAS WINDING REFN
The world premiere of MY LIFE DIRECTED BY NICOLAS WINDING REFN was held at Fantastic Fest yesterday in...
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Fantastic Fest 2014: JOHN WICK – The Review
Give me a great car chase, throw in a cool shoot-out, and sprinkle in a little blood and...
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Fantastic Fest 2014: TUSK – The Review
Kevin Smith’s second venture into horror camp – the use of camp is not an accident – may...
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Fantastic Fest 2014 – Opening Night Red Carpet For TUSK
Fantastic Fest is known for bringing out the party animals. So it seems only appropriate to kick-off the...
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Fantastic Fest – A Look at the Film, Parties, and Chaos that Await in Austin
The best way to describe how I approach Fantastic Fest is like summer camp. It happens once a...
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THE DROP – The Review
Smoky bars and rundown, vacant buildings are surrounded by cheap shacks that barely pass for homes… and I...
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AS ABOVE/SO BELOW – The Review
Often in films of this nature, the vapid group of overly curious teenagers delves into seemingly dangerous territory for...
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IF I STAY – The Review
There’s some that will judge if a comedy is good or not depending on how many times they...
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TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES – The Review
The mean and green “heroes in a half-shell” have repeatedly been reintroduced for almost three decades. You almost...
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BOYHOOD – The Review
Often film critics throw around such phrases as “unlike anything you have seen before” or “a cinematic marvel.”...
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LUCY – The Review
How can a film exist somewhere between being an ambitious Hollywood oddity and a wacky hot mess of...
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THE PURGE: ANARCHY – The Review
By all accounts, THE PURGE: ANARCHY was never a film I was hoping would exist. Even being a...
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DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES – The Review
One could argue the significance of the events that take place in THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK. It’s widely...
