June 18, 2023
Brian Fanelli
The Sperm Bank somehow makes the grim topic of cancer funny. At the same time, it hits at a few tough truths about dying. Oh, and the short has a wild premise about a 23-year-old just diagnosed with the c word who wants to donate his sperm. Directed by Margaux Susi and written by Jeremy [...]
January 28, 2022
Miranda Riddle
Slamdance 2022 Film Festival - A director and an intimacy coordinator end up at near-blows, after a consent violation sets the coordinator's hackles up, and she finds out the director was fueling the insubordination. Blind Spots briefly dives into the often unthought-of world of intimacy coordination. Every time there's a sex scene in a film [...]
January 27, 2022
Miranda Riddle
Slamdance 2022 Film Festival - In this animated short film from Polish writer and director Tomek Ducki, an unusual, lonely man tends to his subterranean garden. All is as usual for the strange man as he lovingly prunes and waters his plants, when he suddenly finds a small child growing from a pot. Knowing only [...]
June 15, 2021
Max Matta
Any piece of media that is composed of multiple creators, whether it be a book of short stories or a film anthology, is inherently a gamble. The curator of the project must find talented people to contribute and decide on the best way and order to present the stories. With film anthologies, there is even [...]
June 7, 2021
Miranda Riddle
In a rare, but much needed shift in film, Dreamer's Journey focuses on trauma and abuse experienced by men. Sexual abuse and exploitation against men and boys is too often ignored - not just in film but in all types of media. Dreamer's Journey focuses a mindful and conscious eye on the lifelong pain and suffering of [...]
March 23, 2021
Miranda Riddle
South by Southwest (SXSW) Film Festival - Surreal comedy short Flex takes four minutes and sends you on a roller coaster from self love to self hate, as a bodybuilder flexes and preens in front of a mirror. Calle Bolund is a real life Swedish bodybuilder and Instagram sensation. In Flex, his internal dialogue is [...]
March 19, 2021
Miranda Riddle
South by Southwest (SXSW) Film Festival - Raucously funny and delightfully dark Joanne is Dead takes place in the last place you would expect - an elderly care facility. When a hospice care worker (Barry Rothbart) is stuck on a shift with a crazy, dementia riddled patient (Jenny O’Hara) he expects annoyance. He’s used to [...]
‘CANARY’ Wrestles With Some Serious Demons
‘THE SPERM BANK’ Has Laughs & Some Hard Truths
BLIND SPOTS–Slamdance 2022
PLANTARIUM–Slamdance 2022
FUTURE FEAR, a Banquet of Slop with a Cherry on Top
DREAMER’S JOURNEY Is A Horrific Lucid Dream
FLEX Gets Under The Skin–SXSW
JOANNE IS DEAD Has Comedy Meet Crime–SXSW
‘CANARY’ Wrestles With Some Serious Demons
‘THE SPERM BANK’ Has Laughs & Some Hard Truths
BLIND SPOTS–Slamdance 2022
PLANTARIUM–Slamdance 2022
FUTURE FEAR, a Banquet of Slop with a Cherry on Top
DREAMER’S JOURNEY Is A Horrific Lucid Dream
FLEX Gets Under The Skin–SXSW
JOANNE IS DEAD Has Comedy Meet Crime–SXSW
‘CANARY’ Wrestles With Some Serious Demons
‘THE SPERM BANK’ Has Laughs & Some Hard Truths
BLIND SPOTS–Slamdance 2022
PLANTARIUM–Slamdance 2022
FUTURE FEAR, a Banquet of Slop with a Cherry on Top
DREAMER’S JOURNEY Is A Horrific Lucid Dream
FLEX Gets Under The Skin–SXSW
JOANNE IS DEAD Has Comedy Meet Crime–SXSW