Fantastic Fest, 9/26.

"William Friedkin's Bug is a brilliant, unsettling, perfectly timed film that checks the pulse of a rapidly disintegrating national consciousness," writes Wiley Wiggins of the film that ranks, along with The Host and Funky Forest, among his favorites at the Fantastic Fest so far. Also wild about Bug is Blake Ethridge at Cinema Strikes Back: "Michael Shannon is at the driver's wheel. It's the best acting performance I've seen in 2006 and careens off all roads of sanity."

At Cinematical, Jette Kernion gets a kick out of Frostbite and also reviews Tideland and The Hamster Cage.

Peter Martin's quick run-downs at Twitch: The Host, Broken, Venus Drowning and Northville Cemetery Massacre (Director's Cut).

At Slackerwood, Chris Holland's got some quick notes and photos.

Allison Hope Weiner reports on Mel Gibson's controversial (deservedly or not) comments in Austin; related: Harry Knowles.

Posted by dwhudson at September 26, 2006 3:04 PM