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Cinequest 2022: Dash
The premise is fairly simple. This is a dashcam video of a night in the life of a LA rideshare driver. The company he works for shares the name of the movie; Dash. And to more than one extent, we see that we’re dashing towards the disastrous culmination a number of bad decisions in this driver’s life. Continue reading
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Tagged Alexander Molina, Cinequest, Cinequest 2022, Dash, One Take, Sean Perry
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Cinequest 2022: Fanga
Tale as old as time… we all know the song from Disney’s Beauty and the Beast. And we’ve probably have seen a production other than the animated Disney cartoon. But this is a movie truly a “tale as old as time” given its roots in folktales and myth. And with Fanga, writer/director Max Gold is going back to the source material, and added a modern twist. Continue reading
Posted in Cinequest, Entertainment, Film, Media, Movies, SciFi Fantasy
Tagged Andrea Snaedal, Cinequest, Cinequest 2022, Fanga, Ingi Hrafn Hilmarsson, Max Gold, Review
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How To Survive Cinequest 2022
A viewer’s guide to what USA Today readers voted the Best Film Festival. I’m happy, so happy, to update this pre-Covid-shutdown article for use in 2022. This year Cinequest moves back from virtual film festival to one of in-person smiles, … Continue reading
Posted in Cinequest, Entertainment, Film, Media, Movies, Organizations, SciFi Fantasy
Tagged Carmen, Cinequest, Dash, Fanga, Jim Gaffigan, Linoleum, Survival Guilde
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Cinequest 2018: Peaches
We all know the rules of time travel by now. Never travel to a time and place where you’re sure to meet yourself. Never do it twice at the same time. Three times is a very bad idea. And a dozen or so… well that could be real trouble. Continue reading
Cinequest 2018:
Charlie and Hannah’s Grand Night Out
This is one of those cases where you’re best prepared when you’re unprepared.
Trust me. This film is what film festivals are for. Continue reading
Posted in Audience, Cinequest, Entertainment, Film, Media, Movies, Review, SciFi Fantasy, Writing
Tagged Absurdist, Bert Scholiers, Cinequest, Cinequest 2018, Clever, comedy, Daphne Wellens, Dialogue, Evelien Bosmans, Frances Lefebure, Patrick Vervueren
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Cinequest 2018: Hunting Lands
The Hunting Lands invites us along for a hunter’s pursuit, stalking a killer of a different kind. Continue reading
Posted in Audience, Cinequest, Entertainment, Film, Media, Movies, Review, Thoughts, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged Cinequest, Cinequest 2018, Hunting Lands, movie, Review
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Cinequest 2018: How to Cinequest!
As regular listeners to the Fanboy Planet Podcast know, San Jose’s award-winning Cinequest film festival opened last night. Opening night at Cinequest typically features an independent film that has or is expected to shortly gain general distribution, and last night’s … Continue reading
Posted in Cinequest, Entertainment, Film, Games, Geeking around, Media, Movies, Technology, Writing
Tagged Cinequest, Cinequest 2018, Fanboy Planet, Festival, How To, Movies, Review, San Jose
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Cinequest 2017: Two Euro Thrillers – Loop and Pyromaniac
Granted, like any other art, not every film is for everyone. We try to focus on giving you reviews that meet our fannish criteria. And today, on the fourth day of San Jose’s Cinequest we have two thrillers, one with a science fiction bent, that you may want to check out. Continue reading
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Tagged Cinequest, Cinequest 2017, loop, norway, pyromaniac, science fiction, thriller, time travel
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Cinequest 2017: The Festival Opens – This is Meg
Opening Night for Cinequest, and a review of “This is Meg” which in a way is representative of much that you will see at the festival. Continue reading
Posted in Cinequest, Entertainment, Film, Review
Tagged Carlos Alazraqui, Cinequest, comedy, Debra Wilson, Drama, goals, independent film, indy, Jenica Bergere, Jill-Michele Meleán, Joseph Reitman, Krista Allen, meditation, Sex, success
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Cinequest 2016: Encores and Last Chances
We’re down to the wire at Cinequest! Late last night, the Cinequest encores were announced. These make up the bulk of Sunday programming in the festival’s final day. As I predicted, there are still too many great films to see them all. … Continue reading
Posted in Cinequest, Entertainment, Film, Media, Movies, Review
Tagged Animated Shorts, Bendito Machine V - Pull The Trigger, Carface, Carlo, Cinequest, Cows, Creedmoria, Dependents Day, Fulfilament, Golden Shot, If I Was God, Love is All You Need?, My Heart Attack, Taking Flight, The Empire of Corpses, The Forest Paper, Welcome to My Life, Zombies
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Cinequest 2016: Embers
It’s a quiet armageddon. Every day you wake with a limited knowledge of the world, of yourself, and of those around you. Some smaller things do stick, but the cohesiveness of what we were, of who we were, is gone. Waking experience teases some of this out to consciousness, but we still see a stranger in the mirror. Continue reading
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Tagged Cinequest, degenerative, Embers, End of the World, Film, loss, memory, quiet, Review, Virus
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Cinequest 2016: Sight Unseen Recommendations
Now that Cinequest is fully upon us, I need to touch on a small subject of interest to those of you going to the festival. There are WAY too many great films to see everything. Way too many. And some are terribly hard to review for reasons that will be obvious in a few paragraphs. But luckily those same programs are very easy to recommend, and do fall on my “Don’t Miss” list.
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Tagged Animation, art, Cinequest, comedy, documentary, Film, foreign, High school, international, mindbenders, recommendations, short films, shorts
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Cinequest 2016: Friends Effing Friends Effing Friends
My first must-see entry from the Cinequest film festival is a sexy story that takes the “friends with benefits” motif to the next level. Continue reading
Posted in Cinequest, Entertainment, Film, Media, Movies, Review
Tagged breakups, Christina Gooding, Cinequest, couples, Friends Effing, Graham Skipper, Jillian Leigh, lies, Quincy Rose, Relationships, secrets, Sex, Tyler Dawson, Vanessa Dubasso
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Cinequest 2015: Short Catch-Up Reviews
Although I’ve written up a good many of the films I’ve seen at Cinequest, there are several I just hadn’t gotten to yet. Given this is the closing weekend and we have a day of encore showings on Sunday, I wanted to get some notes out to you and hopefully help your viewing decisions. Continue reading
Cinequest 2015: Bad Exorcists
In the end this film delivers a lot of laughs, mixed with just enough shocks and scares. And that’s exactly what I was looking for. Continue reading
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Tagged Cinequest, Film, Movies, Review
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Cinequest 2015: The House On Pine Street
The House on Pine Street is both a well-crafted traditional horror story, and a modern exploration of what haunting and haunted actually mean. More than a little is left up to your interpretation at the end. But that’s cool, because a film like this should haunt you long after you leave the theater. Continue reading
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Tagged Cinequest, Film, movie, Review
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Cinequest 2015: Clew
If you like puzzles, especially those that expose a new puzzle when you’ve gotten past the first answer, Clew is for you. Continue reading
Cinequest 2015: Astraea
In a market where every post-apocalyptic movie has it’s heart in an alien invasion or zombie uprising, we’re faced in Astraea with an all-too-possible scenario where a disease quickly and efficiently wiped out most of the population. The few survivors are crafty and cautious, knowing that men are far worse danger than any rotting corpse. And that making connections with the few remaining good folks is probably the most precious thing to pursue. Continue reading
Cinequest 2015: Aspie Seeks Love
Bringing this picture of a different form of coping, admittedly still full of personal frustration and failures, is the real gift of this movie. Continue reading