I find it necessary to watch the trailers before seeing any Fantasia movies because they can go a long way towards indicating the production value, style and concept of any given film. But sometimes, as we are all aware, a trailer does nothing except spoil a movie-going experience. “Robo Rock” is a case in point. […]

Finally some science-fiction! “The Chasing World” explores the concept of parallel dimensions, which is a sci-fi cliche that somehow hasn’t been overused. This Japanese film was nothing special but it had a few good ideas and a few genuine surprises. Well, one genuine surprise. It had some nice moments and as far as my inevitable […]

This one is difficult for me to review because I can look at it objectively and say it was good but also admit that it didn’t do much for me. Part of the reason is that I’m sort of over the whole hand-held-camera-POV genre and while sometimes I feel it works incredible well (such as […]

This is not a film for everyone. It is gloomy, slow, stark and minimalistic in setting, characterization, dialogue and imagery. But it is also stylish, moody and aesthetically innovative. Apparently John Bergin made this animated movie on his home computer, using images from his graphic novel of the same name. It shows. But I don’t […]