The world is coming to an end. So the question posed in writer/co-director David Chase and co-director David Heacock’s thriller, Spin the Wheel, is, what would you do? How about playing a game of Russian Roulette with the Devil? The Apocalypse…
Read moreAn ending can change your perception of the movie you just watched. A Thousand and One, which won Sundance’s Grand Jury Prize, throws a curveball during its third act that presents the characters in a new light. And yet, the…
Read moreLook, there is something seriously wrong with writer-director Jeffrey Limoncelli’s short film, The Magic Words, and I love that about it. Grayson (Rhys Jackson Becker) is a young boy asked to recite a passage from scripture for his first communion. So…
Read moreA story about the world of casting auditions and finding friends in the weirdest of places we bring you our Two’s A Crowd review. Two struggling, diametrically opposed actors’ find their fates collide in one calamitous audition. They’re paired together…
Read moreRiverdale returns this week for its seventh and final season, and after six insane years that have featured wild storylines including organ-harvesting cults, multiverses, and the highs and lows of high school football, the series is time-traveling back to the…
Read moreIn any discussion of a series that attempts to adapt a beloved novel, of which this year has already seen several tries to mixed results, a balance must be struck between comparing the two versions of the story and evaluating…
Read moreJasmine is a Star, written and directed by Jo Rochelle, introduces us to Jasmine, a teen living with Albinism. Albinism is a genetic disorder that results in decreased production of a pigment called melanin in the skin, hair, and eyes,…
Read moreAt the midway point of Season 3, The Mandalorian finally brings into focus a plotline that it has been teasing since the premiere, but in order to reach it — the path is lined with comically ill-equipped pirates. With Episode…
Read moreOne seldom discussed element of an excellent comedy is the idea of keeping the audience off-balance. One good example of this is filmmaker Azwan’s short film, Farmer Ed. Ed (E. James Ford) and his wife, Birdie (Samantha Nugent), are a pair…
Read moreI think we all know that artists are cut from a different cloth than the rest of us “normies.” One of these differences is in the perception of life/death. Writer-director Daniel Lawrence Wilson’s short film, A Brush of Violence, takes us…
Read moreWriter-director Michael Escalante’s The Burial is always hiding something. Thankfully, what is slowly unearthed is not as drab or derivative as simply a reanimated corpse or an abstract curse, but instead something novel and thematically compelling. With the aid of a clever…
Read moreDirected by Aristotle Torres from a screenplay in partnership with Bonsu Thompson, Story Ave is elevated by the special relationship crafted between its main characters. It doesn’t tell a fresh story, but in Torres and Thompson’s capable hands, the narrative…
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