Just in time to join the fearful festivities of the Halloween season, director/co-writer Dante Yore unleashes bloody barrels of hay and guts in Fear PHarm 2. A follow-up sequel to the 2020 original Fear PHarm (read our review here), Fear PHarm 2 continues the storyline of horror cinema's fresh, fun, and freak-filled family of farming [...]

Nightstream Film Festival (NFF) - As hard as it is to make friends as an adult it can be hard to maintain long-time friendships as well, made abundantly clear in the dark comedy, All My Friends Hate Me. A movie about feeling like the odd man out in a room full of people as well [...]

Written and directed by Enzo Cellucci and Ash McNair, Class is a short film that takes a brief peek into the carefully crafted microcosm of one man’s acting class. This mini melodrama started out quiet and unassuming but added on unexpected layers of tension and intensity. In Class, a man named Adam (David Krumholtz) attends [...]

Fantasia International Film Festival (FIFF) - I can't believe it's claymation -- I totally lost myself inside of Junk Head creator Takahide Hori's world! Having written the screenplay and directed the film, configured the lighting, drafted character designs, and so much more in order to create Junk Head over the course of 7 years, this [...]

Fantasia International Film Festival (FIFF) -  I don't think I have seen anything like Sexy Furby before, and I'm not sure if I want to again. I love weird stories, but Sexy Furby is weird in a way that I felt was trying very hard to be silly or trying very hard to be weird [...]

Written and directed by Robert G. Putka, Mister Limbo (2021) is surprisingly emotionally moving at times, with the film being an existential study on life and death filtered through a comedic screen. A handful of characters are given monologues to depict moments of deep introspection and reflection upon their sorry, previously-living selves. These moments are [...]

South by Southwest (SXSW) Film Festival - Screening as a selection in the "Texas High School Short Competition" category, A Really Dark Comedy (2021) is directed by Manasi Ughdmathe and written by Jackson Coates. In A Really Dark Comedy, high school Gus (Satvik Shankar) is nervous about asking his crush out to prom. Bringing his [...]