Fantastic Fest 2026

Time loop movies are a fickle product. The formula is simple: take one moment, repeat that moment, make that moment into a story that means something. That’s far easier said than done. This Spanish language movie from director Javier Ruiz Caldera manages to achieve that difficult task. Enter Antonio (Berto Romero) and Barbara (Belén Cuesta) off […]

The best genre films are often the ones that you just don’t see coming. The ones where it seems you are on the highway traveling at a high rate of speed in one direction, and then suddenly you are on an exit you never saw coming, headed somewhere totally different. That’s exactly what happens in […]

While Paul & I are finishing off this year’s Toronto International Film Festival and couldn’t be having a better time, our hero Anna Hanks is in Austin covering the 2026 edition of this year’s Fantastic Fest, taking place entirely While I (Jason) be there as TIFF is running at the same time, I have covered […]