Slamdance 2022 Film Festival - Get whisked away to an idyllic woodland nourished by youth and futile rebellion against angst in director/co-writer Avalon Fast's feature directorial debut, Honeycomb. I was immediately struck by the film's shot-on-video look, in fact, the film oscillated between feeling like a feature film and somewhat of a found footage movie [...]

Slamdance 2022 Film Festival - Writer/director Kenichi Ugana's short film, Visitors, was everything that I love about horror! It was all at once original but referential to so many beloved horror classics, expertly setting up atmosphere, likable characters, and memorably gory kills. Screening as one of the 2022 Slamdance Film Festival's short film selections, Visitors [...]

Slamdance 2022 Film Festival - I don't think I've ever thought "WTF" to myself so many times in one viewing as I did with the science-fiction comedy, Ultrainocencia, screening during the 2022 Slamdance Film Festival. Written and directed by Manuel Arija, Ultrainocencia is a movie made for weirdos, and I mean that in the most [...]

Sundance 2022 Film Festival - Written and directed by Alex Fofondoff, the short film, While Mortals Sleep, was a bundle of pleasant surprises. Screening as part of the 2022 Sundance Film Festival lineup that is full of shocking and experimental short films, While Mortals Sleep still managed to stand out with riveting story writing and [...]

Sundance 2022 Film Festival - Kitchen Sink had WTF-ness dripping from every pipe. Written and directed by Alison Maclean, Kitchen Sink was screened in the 2022 Sundance Film Festival as a blast from the past horror out of the year 1989. After finishing doing her dishes, a woman (Theresa Healey) finds a mysterious thread protruding [...]

Slamdance 2022 Film Festival - Creating a stop-motion piece is a feat in and of itself, and to create one with as interesting a story as there is animation technique is an accomplishment -- writer/director Brad Hock has done just that with his short film Oldboy's Apples. Screening at the 2022 Slamdance Film Festival, Oldboy's Apples is [...]

Sundance Film Festival 2022 Premiere - How many lives does one have to live in order to know what it is to be human? It is a question asked and answered in Goran Stolevski's witch-tale, You Won't Be Alone, an official selection of the 2022 Sundance Film Festival. There is no mistaking that You Won't [...]