Fantasia Barrino admits she “hated” being part of Broadway’s The Color Purple and explained why that was the case.

From her days on American Idol to leading The Color Purple, here are six big moments in Fantasia Barrino's career.

Fallen legends, faded friendships, and a heartwarming homecoming; The Paper Tigers hits a lot of the familiar touchstones for Kung Fu cinema while making them feel fresh, funny, and full of heart. The new underdog martial arts comedy from debut feature filmmaker Quoc Bao Tran follows three former friends who used to be kings of their local Kung Fu scene, known as the unbeatable “Paper Tigers”, and find their way back to each other after the death of their former master. Fueled by a tremendous trio of leads, Tran’s light touch, and tightly choreographed fight scenes, The Paper Tigers …

There are few things as scary as someone or something that wants to hurt you just because they can. And because they enjoy it. Bryan Bertino twisted the knife into that primal terror with his 2008 directorial debut The Strangers, which set a bar for the early-aughts home invasion trend by packaging pure evil as a trio of masked killers and setting them loose on a couple you couldn’t help but root for. With The Dark and the Wicked, Bertino delivers another bleak and brutal home invasion story of sorts, but this time, it’s not the malice …

Fantasia International Film Festival is doing something very exciting this year. While many film fests have postponed or been cancelled outright in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, Fantasia is keeping the spotlight on the indie an international genre movies that too often fly under the radar by bringing the entire film festival online. From screenings to Q&As and seminars, Fantasia attempting to keep the cinephile festival experience alive digitally (though the fest will be geo-locked to Canadian viewers) and they just unveiled a pretty impressive second wave of titles. If you missed it, you can …

While the world and entertainment business tries to figure out how to get back to something resembling normal amidst the COVID-19 crisis you can count on one thing for sure -- genre fans aren't going to let a little 'ol pandemic get in the way of celebrating weird, wild and wonderful movies. Which is exactly why the Fantasia International Film Festival has gone fully virtual this year, allowing one of the world's biggest and best genre fests to keep up that celebration without putting folks in danger. And the first wave of films has arrived! Fantasia 2020 will …

For the last two years, I've been lucky enough to travel up to the wonderful city of Montreal, Canada for the equally wonderful Fantasia International Film Festival. One of the biggest genre fests in the world, Fantasia has spent the last few decades unveiling some of the most unique, inspired, and oddball action, fantasy, sci-fi, and horror films from all over the world. And this year, it's going entirely digital... for Canadian residents. Per an exclusive report in THR, Fantasia will be going online for a virtual screening event from August 20 to September 2 in an …

Fantasia was always meant to be a series of films. According to Neal Gabler’s biography Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination, he notes that as early as May 1940, Walt began thinking of a follow-up to his groundbreaking animated feature: he wanted to do an entirely separate movie (with pieces set to Richard Struass’s Till Eulenspiegel, Brahms’s First Symphony, and Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue) but also had the idea of adding new sequences to re-releases of the original film, “which had the advantages of being easier to do and of providing ongoing …

Fantasia 2000 introduced a whole new series of musical animations to Disney fans - and these are the best of the best.

From the brilliantly absurd "Dance of the Hours" to the truly epic "Rite of Spring," we've ranked all of Fantasia's stunning musical sequences.

Blood on Her Name starts with a murder. Maybe manslaughter. Or perhaps, something in between. All we know for sure is, when this thriller starts, Leigh Tiller (Bethany Anne Lind) has a dead body to dispose of, a son to protect, and secrets to keep. And she's completely out of her league, lacking the forensic skills and, worse, moral ambivalence to get the job done clean. A lowkey thrill ride that builds steady, quiet tension, Blood on Her Name thrives when it focuses on how utterly unprepared the average human is to do dirty deeds. Over the course of …

Often regarded as one of the darker original offerings in Disney's repertoire, Fantasia hides even more dark secrets than you may have known.

You better strap in when you sit down for Come to Daddy, because the directorial debut from Turbo Kid and Deathgasm producer Ant Timpson is an elusive, endlessly shocking thrill ride. Built around some brutal daddy issues and finding the cracks in broken relationships where something new can flourish, Come to Daddy is always zigging when you expect it to zag, with tongue firmly in cheek and heart proudly on its sleeve (whether that's a heartfelt moment or just a bit of arterial spray depends on the scene.) Elijah Wood stars as Norval, an awkward and effete thirty-something …

Ma Dong-seok, aka Don Lee, is poised to become Hollywood's next big international breakout. He's already one of the most popular actors in South Korea with bonafide worldwide cinephile cache thanks to standout roles in Korean hits like The Good, the Bad and the Weird and Train to Busan, but with an MCU role in The Eternals on the horizon, he's on track to reach a bigger audience than ever before. And then there's The Gangster, the Cop, the Devil. Sylvester Stallone's production company already scooped up the 2019 South Korean thriller for an …

Extreme Job may already be on your radar thanks to its record-shattering South Korean debut, but if it isn't, you're going to want to make this Korean action comedy a priority as soon as possible. The 2019 mega-hit currently sits as the highest-grossing and second-highest-watched film in Korean box office history, and Kevin Hart already has an English-language remake in the works, but aside from an extremely limited theatrical US theatrical release, most North American audiences haven't had the chance to indulge in the first-rate action comedy's eccentric hilarity …

Sometimes, nature is a bitch. It's not evil, it just is -- you can't call a lion an asshole for eating that gazelle and a parasite isn't exacting some cruel vengeance against its host, but the predator's lack of moral culpability doesn't make the food chain any less painful for the prey. Lorcan Finnegan's sophomore feature Vivarium is all about the ravages of life cycles, natural and man-made, from the intimate perspective of a couple experiencing the peaks and valleys of the 21st Century human life cycle in fast-forward, while literally trapped in …

In terms of genre cycles, J-horror seems about ready for a revival. Hideo Nakata's Ringu (1998) was a horror game-changer that helped launch a flurry of atmospheric, slow-burn paranormal horrors built around striking visuals and oppressive dread. When the trend hit North American shores with Gore Verbinski's remake The Ring (2002), it likewise spawned a series of imitators, making Nakata's vision one of the most internationally influential creative precursors to early-21st-century horror. But since then, the subgenre has all but died out on an international scale, leaving it primed for a comeback. …

Get ready to put some movies on your radar. For more than 20 years, Fantasia International Film Festival has been delivering a celebration of genre cinema, growing into a three-week smorgasbord of horror, action, sci-fi, fantasy, crime dramas and all the weird little niches in between. Showcasing genre films from around the world, Fantasia is one of the best destinations to get a first look at upcoming under-the-radar gems and potential breakout hits. On July 11th, Fantasia returns for its 23rd edition in Montreal, Quebec, and the lineup is just as adventurous and stacked as ever, …

The 2019 Fantasia Film Festival is just around the corner! Kicking off next month in Montreal, Canada, the international genre festival has debuted its full lineup, featuring over 130 titles from around the world. You can check out the first wave over here, but newly revealed standouts include the opening night film, Hideo Nakata's new Rigu sequel Sadako, the Samara Weaving survival horror Ready or Not, the festival hit The Lodge, and recent Cannes debut Vivarium, starring Jesse Eisenberg and Imogen Poots. The festival will also have the world premieres of Mystery of the Night, Blood on Her Name, …

North America's largest genre festival is at it again! The Fantasia International Film Festival returns to Montreal, Quebec this summer for its 23rd anniversary. And as always, it's boasting a wild, diverse lineup of genre cinema from around the world. The first wave of titles includes world premiere's for Malik Bader's crime thriller Killerman, starring Liam Hemsworth and Emory Cohen, and the first Critters film in nearly three decades with the debut of Critters Attack! 2019's FantasiaFest lineup also includes The Gangster, The Cop and The Devil, fresh off its Cannes premiere, the Lupita Nyong'…