‘The Studio’ review: Lampooning Hollywood showbiz with a bevy of stars

A man in brown suit looks at a woman in a white sweater holding a mug in her hands as they stand near a pool.

“Millions are to be grabbed out here,” Herman J. Mankiewicz wrote Ben Hecht in 1926, “and your only competition is idiots.” Here was Hollywood, in particular the picture business, and Hecht, a former journalist and […]

Fantasia International Film Festival’s 2024 Edition Offers Another Bevy of Genre Goodness

An old man has a demon sword on his arm in Old Man and the Demon Sword.

One of the very best film festivals in the world (in my humble opinion) kicks off again this weekend for another fortnight-and-a-bit of horror, sci-fi, fantasy, action, and basically all the great genre movies you […]