• Categories: Movies, Reviews, Short Films

      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 [...]

    • Categories: Movies, Reviews

      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 [...]

    • Categories: Reviews, Short Films

      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 [...]

  • Featured Events

    • ‘CANARY’ Wrestles With Some Serious Demons

      June 22, 2023
    • ‘THE SPERM BANK’ Has Laughs & Some Hard Truths

      June 18, 2023
    • BLIND SPOTS–Slamdance 2022

      January 28, 2022
    • PLANTARIUM–Slamdance 2022

      January 27, 2022
    • FUTURE FEAR, a Banquet of Slop with a Cherry on Top

      June 15, 2021
    • DREAMER’S JOURNEY Is A Horrific Lucid Dream

      June 7, 2021
    • FLEX Gets Under The Skin–SXSW

      March 23, 2021
    • JOANNE IS DEAD Has Comedy Meet Crime–SXSW

      March 19, 2021

    Conventions

    • ‘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




      Festivals

    • ‘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