Nightstream Film Festival (NFF) - Do you like gore, war, and documentaries? Scott Barber's This Is GWAR is an excellent tour through the rise and fall of GWAR, a rock band known for its shock and awe performances, delightfully disgusting lyrics, and off-camera antics. Beginning as a parody of over-the-top metal bands, the self-proclaimed "art [...]

Cleanin' Up The Town: Remembering Ghostbusters is a documentary that plays out like a love letter to fans of one of the most endearing and unique film franchises of all time, the Ghostbusters movies. The original films took the world by storm over a series of summers in the late 1980s, accomplishing what only a [...]

The truth is out there, and the cryptozoological documentary team, Small Town Monsters, helmed by director Seth Breedlove, attempts to find the truth surrounding the presence of possible alien life forms and UFOs in their latest documentary, On the Trail of UFOs: Dark Sky. Breedlove, again, invited host, Shannon Legro, as they hit the trail [...]

Dr. Phil Kennedy is a pioneer of brain-to-machine interfacing. He lovingly calls his patients and experiments cyborgs -- a science fiction term describing a combination of human and machine. Kennedy, himself, is one of those cyborgs. Kennedy, of Irish descent and with a calm, jovial voice reminiscent of Liam Neeson, talks of his loner work [...]

Tribeca 2021 Screening - Many artistic troupes matched out of the creative boon of expression that marked the 1960s and 70s, and one such artistic leader, Will Vinton, became the father (or illegitimate step-father, to some) of claymation, leading a team of artists and writers to revolutionize animation. Directed by Marq Evans, ClayDream follows Vinton's [...]

Kata is a Japanese-language short film that is beautiful inside and out -- from dialogue, to setting, to the inner spirituality captured by the film's lead subject, Mahiro Takano. The film is practically a 6-minute monologue, however, its words of determination about a young woman's drive to learn karate kept me rapt on high. Kata, [...]

Three forced marriage survivors - Nina, Sara, and Fraidy - tell the dark story of their lives through the lens of the unbelievable violence and trauma they faced in Knots: A Forced Marriage Story. Their journeys led them through sexual, emotional, and physical abuse, and into the world of advocacy - fighting to prevent other [...]