Sundance Film Festival 2022 Premiere - Rendang of Death is an Indonesian-language film that is 7 minutes of food-related anarchy -- a pleasant break from the serious content that often dominates film festivals. Directed by Muhammad Andri Abdi and with the story and co-writing done by Ryan Jackson, Rendang of Death is screening as part [...]

Sundance 2022 Film Festival Premiere - After Yang is a quiet sci-fi melodrama written and directed by Kogonada. In his sophomore feature film debut, Kogonada displays a natural talent for storytelling through purposeful and symbolic visuals and subtle world-building. What's more, peeks at his humor in the film's spattering of bittersweet moments made this melodrama about [...]

Sundance 2022 Film Festival Premiere - I love all movies about witchcraft, from cheesy The Craft knockoffs to the upper echelons of cinema where Suspiria lives; and having watched just about everything in between, I cannot say that I've seen a witch film quite like Master. Written and directed by Mariama Diallo as her feature [...]

Sundance 2022 Film Festival Premiere - Emergency came out swinging, filling my lungs with laughter, and then doling out emotional gut punches that nearly knocked the wind right out of me. Best summarized as a movie about three gentle bears and a wily goldilocks, Emergency's is a "one wild night" kind of movie -- but [...]

Written, directed, and edited by James Schroeder, Nicole (2020) is smartly written horror-comedy goodness, the kind that delivers its punchlines without going for the easy jokes or making a slap-sticky mess out of blood and guts. Nicole will get into your heart and then carve it out of your chest with its biting social commentary, [...]

If outback hiking horror didn't already exist it sure does now with Mathew J. Wilkinson's film Stuffings. Though its plot is a bit all over the place, each character gave an earnest performance in portraying silly scenes with straight -- or screaming -- faces. Led by relatively new actors Daniel Moody and Kathleen Halligan in [...]

Lobster Girl & Other Tales is a short film comprised of other short films, turning out to be an anthology of terrifying stories that seem to be connected by shared themes of violence and lovelessness. What's more, each story was non-traditionally animated, making the film as visually interesting as its deeply tragic premises were. Lobster [...]