PHILLY FEST IS JUST FOR YOU

I don't really care about the Philadelphia Festival of World Cinema (March 30 - April 11), but I really do care about their Danger After Dark program put together by Travis Crawford, a mild-mannered gentleman who, when touched by moonlight, transforms into an enormous, flying ant who fights crime. This year, Travis has focused a little bit less on crime fighting and a little bit more on gathering together an amazing collection of Asian films in his underground kingdom, as if they were so many grains of yummy sugar.

So there's some of the usual suspects: LADY VENGEANCE, Takashi Shimizu's REINCARNATION, and THE GLAMOROUS LIFE OF SACHIKO HANAI which is building up a real cult following. Then there's the stuff of dreams.

HELL, the new Thai horror film that doesn't end with teens being slaughtered, but follows them down to Hell to see them eternally tortured, too!

TOKYO ZOMBIE with Tadanobu Asano fighting off a zombie horde!

MEATBALL MACHINE about aliens turning humans into necroborgs! Necroborgs?!? How dare they!

STRANGE CIRCUS, and incredibly divisive follow-up to Sion Sono's SUICIDE CLUB about a sexually abused little girl and her active fantasy life.

Philadelphia: easily accessible by rail, road or sea, and protected by a crimefighting ant.