Fantasia Festival 2020 Review - "FRIED BARRY" (2020)

Fried Barry (2020)
Written and directed by Ryan Kruger
Starring Gary Green, Chanelle de Jager, Brett Williams and Joey Cramer
Running time: 1 hour and 39 minutes
Currently unrated, but it contains copious drug use, sexual content, violence, adult themes and the birth of an alien/human hybrid

Director Ryan Kruger’s Fried Barry is A LOT. The story of a burned-out, deadbeat dad who’d rather spend his time in bars or shooting up than at home with his family. One afternoon he’s just up and abducted by aliens who possess his body and take it on a whirlwind tour of the city and its seedy underbelly. It’s entertaining and surprisingly well-acted, but ultimately really exhausting.

"CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE FIFTH KIND" (2020)

CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE FIFTH KIND

Written and directed by Michael Mazzola

Starring: Dr. Steven M. Greer, Jeremy Piven, Jeremy Sheehan, Adam Michael Curry, Joe Martino, Jan Harzan and Dr. Russell Targ

Running time: 2 hours

Where do I even start, y'all? In Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind, Dr. Steven M. Greer asks viewers to accept strange truths - that intelligent life exists beyond our planet; that world governments have chosen to cover up most of what they know about the ETs; and that contact between them and us is not only possible but is actively happening, though perhaps not in the way you think. The movies would have us believe that to communicate with other intelligences, we'll have to use some "universal language" like music (Close Encounters of the Third Kind) or mathematics (Contact), but the real mode of communication is both simpler and much more complex. Dr. Greer's hypothesis is that the true universal language is the primary thing binding us to any intelligent life that may be out there: consciousness itself.

Tim Alien in CAPTAIN MARVEL

Watching the CAPTAIN MARVEL trailers for the upcoming installment of the column I write when I spotted this familiar-looking blue so-and-so:

It's not just me, right?