Mark Pacis Movie Reviews
Clayface Review – Holy Body Horror, Batman!
Clayface has been a part of Batman’s world since Basil Karlo showed up in Detective Comics #40 back in 1940. ...
Street Fighter Review – Here Comes a New Challenger, but Not Quite a Champion
Street Fighter is more than just an arcade game, and this movie shows why. Director Kitao Sakurai’s live-action version is ...
Digger Review – A Very Serious Movie About Very Unserious People
Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Digger is a movie that works best when you know as little as possible. Whatever you think ...
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. ...
