So there is a movie called Holy Shit! (Ach du Scheisse!) and it is a comedy-mystery thriller that takes place in a porta-potty. Sounds completely ridiculous and full of crappy jokes right? It is sure to be full of nothing but low-hanging fruit poop jokes and hardly anything else of substance. Well, hold on to [...]

Most movies with John Malkovich end up being a convoluted but delicious layer cake of madness, and Chariot is no exception, playing out like a dream within a dream within a nightmare of veiled reality and the separation of fated lovers. Directed and written by Adam Sigal, Chariot proved to be a cake of many [...]

When being a first-time filmmaker there is nearly constant pressure to make your project ambitious as to stand out in the crowd. It has to be the most clever, the most interesting, and the most unique if it ever has a chance of being noticed by a studio. What that tends to lead to though [...]

In just the last year I have been introduced to well-crafted murder mysteries, with classics like Murder on the Orient Express and Then There Were None, and taken to them like a fish to water. These films combined with my constant searches for good murder documentaries have had the idea of mysteries as well as murder at [...]

Creating a tone for your film is an interesting factor in that it is almost effortless but has to be constantly considered lest you accidentally create a rollercoaster of emotion. A dark comedy finds what's funny in something that is not inherently comedic and is often at times the opposite of comedic. On the other [...]

One of the most interesting things a filmmaker can do for their project, as well as the audience, is creating a unique world for the story and characters to inhabit. This can be anything from just one small change that has a greater impact on the world as a whole, introducing an assassin robot to [...]

When it comes to directorial debuts there seems to be the trend of knocking it completely out of the park or crashing and burning spectacularly. Obviously, there are many factors that go into the results but for every Citizen Kane there seems to be its Date Movie. With the spectrum though there are bound to be the [...]