Overlook 2023 Film Festival - Sometimes, we do what we have to do to make a buck and pay rent. In the case of Trim Season, the main character, Emma (Bethlehem Million), takes a job trimming weed on a remote marijuana farm with a diverse group of characters. However, it turns out that the farm [...]

Overlook 2023 Film Festival - Lately, there have been a wave of horror movies dealing with pregnancy and motherhood, and considering recent headlines, that's unlikely to stop anytime soon. Writer/director Alexis Jacknow's Clock is a nail-biting and relentless feature about a woman who wants to "fix" her biological clock and succumbs to pressure to have a [...]

A Moving Love Letter To Art & The Bronx--SXSW

South by Southwest 2023 Film Festival - Transport yourself back to 1970s America. Nixon. Manson. Vietnam. Leisure suits. Oh, and increased interest in the occult. Late Night with the Devil is set during that turbulent decade and follows a fledging TV host who tries to save his show "Night Owls" from cancellation. He plans a [...]

South by Southwest 2023 Film Festival - Will AI ever evolve to feel emotion? Should AI be given the freedom to choose its own objectives?  What ultimately will be the legacy of the human race? These are just some of the philosophical questions raised in writer/director Franklin Ritch‘s very weighty The Artifice Girl, a movie that also [...]

South by Southwest 2023 Film Festival - In Deadland, three Texas border agents can't quite shake the accidental death of a migrant. The man returns again and again, an unsettling figure that's an eerie manifestation of guilt. This premise makes for a haunting and gripping thriller with seemingly divergent storylines that lead to a satisfying [...]

A Poor Man's Matrix With Heart