Mark Pacis Movie Reviews
Resident Evil Review – It’s a Thriller Night in Raccoon City
For over twenty years, Hollywood has tried and failed to make a great Resident Evil movie. Zach Cregger might have ...
The End of Oak Street Review – Come for the Mystery, Stay for the Mayhem
David Robert Mitchell has never been a filmmaker interested in making audiences feel comfortable. Whether it was the inescapable dread ...
The Specials (Fantasia International Film Festival 2026 Review)
The concept for Eiji Uchida’s The Specials sounds like a story so out there it shouldn’t work. It revolves around ...
The Origin of Ultraman (Fantasia International Film Festival 2026 Review)
Ultraman has been saving Japan from giant monsters since 1966, when special-effects pioneer Eiji Tsuburaya followed the success of Ultra ...
You Are the Film (Fantasia International Film Festival 2026 Review)
Makoto Ueda has spent years playing with time, repetition, and cause and effect in his clever screenplays. If you haven’t ...
Suzuki=Bakudan (Fantasia International Film Festival 2026 Review)
Suzuki=Bakudan understands that the most frightening person in the room is not always the one you suspect. Sometimes it’s the ...
The Samurai and the Prisoner (Fantasia International Film Festival 2026 Review)
Although Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s The Samurai and the Prisoner may look like a sweeping samurai epic, it is a different film. ...
Wind Breaker (Fantasia International Film Festival 2026 Review)
Most battle shonen stories try hard to look cool. However, Wind Breaker feels different. It is stylish and confident, but ...
The Mouths (Fantasia International Film Festival 2026 Review)
In 2002, Takashi Shimizu helped shape modern J-horror with Ju-on: The Grudge. After the massive success of The Grudge, he ...
Spider-Man: Brand New Day Review – A New Beginning Built on an Old Sacrifice
Spider-Man has always been defined by sacrifice. No matter how many villains he defeats or how many times he saves ...
