This year marks the 20th edition of Fantastic Fest, Austin’s renowned celebration of genre cinema. Known for its audacious programming,…
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Nathan Flynn
Nathan Flynn is a member of the Austin Film Critics Association and has been writing about movies since 2019, with work appearing on OneofUs.net and Cinapse.com. He’s especially passionate about action cinema, legal thrillers, and romantic comedies, and enjoys connecting classic and contemporary films for today’s audiences.
Fantastic Fest 2025 once again proves why it’s the most reliably unhinged genre festival in the world—a delirious marathon of…
It’s been eight long years since Gore Verbinski last graced us with a movie. His 2017 fever dream “A Cure…
Benny Safdie’s solo directorial debut arrives with heavyweight expectations. “The Smashing Machine” tells the story of former UFC and PRIDE superstar…
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There’s a cult around “Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning”, and seeing it once is enough to understand why. On paper,…
“HIM” is the kind of movie that frustrates you because the better version is so easy to imagine. On paper, it’s…
Robert Redford has died at 89. Actor, director, Sundance founder—sure, all of that’s true. But really, he was the face…
Horor studios often don’t know how to market their better films. Year after year, genuinely bold, and unnerving films slip…
“The Long Walk” is a strange, occasionally mesmerizing genre hybrid: part dystopian YA nightmare, part minimalist sports film, part cruel horror,…