The trailer for “The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster” makes it easy to assume that this is a Jordan Peele movie. The trailer immerses you in its urban setting, complete with gang violence and a hip-hop inspired soundtrack. As…
Read moreFew horror icons have been as indelible as Robert Englund as Freddy Krueger from The Nightmare on Elm Street franchise. So, is it a blessing or a curse? Just who is Englund beyond the character that everyone knows him for? Hollywood Dreams &…
Read moreAs often proves the case with talky indies, a single visual flourish in “Downtown Owl” emerges to ensure the film does not become a mere plot and dialogue delivery mechanism. Here, that’s the long lens shot, which flattens out images…
Read moreTed Geoghegan isn’t messing around with his newest offering, Brooklyn 45. The man behind We Are Still Here has returned with yet another period piece, teaming up with Shudder for a 1940s horror tale that seems like it comes straight…
Read moreDirected by Marchella De Angelis and Jennifer Schauerte, Woolf Women follows Schaerte, or “Jungle Jenny,” the world’s number 2 women’s downhill skater. She is a world-class athlete who leads a collective of five downhill skateboarders with a passion for thrill-seeking called Woolf…
Read moreWatching Season 1 of Human Resources was the animated series equivalent to going through doodles of a notebook from a 15-year-old. That’s not necessarily a bad thing, but, more often than not, the Big Mouth spin-off favored repetitive dick jokes…
Read morePietro Marcello, the celebrated director of 2019 hit Martin Eden, is back with his latest literary adaptation, Scarlet (L’envol). The previous film was daunting in scope and grounded in earthly conflicts like labor and class. Based on Alexander Grin’s novel, this historical romantic…
Read moreDirector Wes Andre Goodrich tells the story of a young man who can’t utter a word but has so much to say in his short film, Speak Up Brotha!. Roderick Lawrence is Ahmad, a man who suffers from deep anxiety when…
Read moreTransformers: Rise of the Beasts is a film that seeks to revitalize the iconic Transformers franchise by introducing new elements and expanding the universe created by Hasbro. Directed by Steven Caple Jr., the movie promises an epic battle between the…
Read moreLeonardo Nussenzveig makes his feature-length debut as a writer and director with the slice-of-life The Doldrums. Cole (Matthew Hadley), Matt (Matthew Price), and Alec (Nick Hansell) spend their high school days getting high and drinking because what else are they…
Read moreWesterns, by nature, usually find themselves set in isolated parts of the United States with a limited cast and set that allows dialogue to do the heavy lifting as much as the characters speaking those lines. With any luck, a…
Read moreWriter-director Sean Breathnach’s horror short, Don’t Open the Box, confirms that if you open your door at night and there’s a mysterious package, then re-read the title. John Ryan Howard plays Mike, a father who is up at night working from…
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