Nightstream Film Festival (NFF) - Allegory and heavy-handed metaphors stall the meaningful message of Clearcut - a cautionary tale about logging, industry, and colonization. Brutal, sadistic torture lays a dark but necessary swath over a tale of a misguided but well-meaning lawyer, Peter Maguire (Ron Lea) who has just lost the case against a logging company [...]

Nightstream Film Festival (NFF) - A brutal beginning, including a sixteenth birthday, a seance, and a death-by-bookshelf set the scene for Alison's Birthday, a 1981 Ozsploitation film from the mind of Ian Coughlan. Despite the tragedy and the terrifying message of impending doom (seemingly sent by the spirit of her dead father), Alison (Joanne Samuel) [...]

I have to be honest. I’m not one hundred percent sure of what I just watched. The synopsis of Companion is simple enough - “Across a post-apocalyptic landscape haunted by spirits, a guilt-stricken woman must choose to abandon her husband or die with him.” Makes sense to me, certainly. Ella (Anna Flynn) and Gus (Marcus [...]

Let me start by saying The Influencer surprised the heck out of me. I was expecting a film that simply pokes fun at the zoomer/millennial generation. We’ve seen many movies that use these gens as jokes, anywhere from an idea of an influencer and avocado toast to the tried and true “back in my day.” [...]

As the Village Sleeps takes the hidden roles style of games and tries to apply it to a horror movie. The set up isn’t new. If you’re not familiar with this type of game, everyone draws cards to decide roles. You keep your role secret as everyone tries to figure out the target, be it [...]

In a town where death has been banned, there are few people more shunned than the Undertaker. Doctor Caligari (Antonio Amoruso) can’t sell his coffins - and his reverence of death prevents him from jumping on the trend of resurrection. Business beyond dwindling, and his personal life on the brink of total destruction, he is [...]

An asteroid, a plague, zombies, robots, aliens, and a little time travel thrown in for good measure. To say Nebulous Dark has a lot on its plate is an understatement. At one point a character says, “I had no clue what was going on.” And all I could do was simply agree with that statement. [...]