fantasy | Midwest Film Journal

Hellboy

Mitch Ringenberg
April 13, 2019

A hugely flawed but glorious work of geek trash.

Welcome to Marwen

Nick Rogers
December 19, 2018

Exceedingly strange and inconsistent, but not without its strengths.

Border

Mitch Ringenberg
December 5, 2018

Admirably weird, but a total slog.

Mirai

Nick Rogers
November 27, 2018

A fantastic family-film premise bogged down by volume and monotony.

Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween

Nick Rogers
October 12, 2018

The Freeform commercial breaks ... now baked right in!

Mandy

Mitch Ringenberg
September 11, 2018

A hallucinatory revenge tale of staggering beauty and exuberant bloodshed.

Schlock Art: Fateful Findings

Mitch Ringenberg
December 14, 2017

Welcome to Schlock Art — where truly tasteless, gleefully grotesque and insanely inventive works of genre cinema are celebrated with unironic fervor.… continue

City of Ember

Nick Rogers
October 10, 2008

A fun social studies lesson, while not quite the puzzle-box mystery it could be.

The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian

Nick Rogers
May 16, 2008

A Little Golden Book version of Gladiator, it’s a PG film with R-rated aspirations.

The Golden Compass

Nick Rogers
December 7, 2007

A lyrical, challenging piece of literature becomes a stupid, sloppy film.

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