SLAMDANCE 2021 Premiere - When it comes to Kenny Scharf: When Worlds Collide, which covers Kenny’s life in the art world from nowish back about 40 years, I’d say it’s more of a hangout documentary than anything else. That style works for some more than others, but I’m quite fine with it when done well [...]

SLAMDANCE 2021 Premiere - Briefly but bluntly touching on dating, the struggle with identity for persons with physical disabilities, and how these two worlds intersect, short film Single starts out with a bitter tone but ends on one that is sweet and lovely. With editing that is as inclusive as its casting, Single features audio [...]

Written and directed by Em Weinstein, In France Michelle is a Man's Name (2020) is a short film showing as part of the Narrative Shorts lineup at the 2021 Slamdance Film Festival. The short offers a teaching moment in the lives of trans persons, displaying an attempt of a father trying to reconnect with his [...]

SLAMDANCE 2021 Premiere - The timing of this documentary's release is perfect--hot off the heels of the Sundance Film Festival premiere of Judas and the Black Messiah (2021), which recounts the final chapters in the life of Chicago-based community activist and Black Panther Party leader Fred Hampton, A Tiny Ripple of Hope (2021) is premiering [...]

If you like a lot of conversation then Mia isi rateaza razbunarea (or Mia Misses Her Revenge) delivers and does not mince words in doing so--this movie has a lot to say socially, and along the way, it is brought to life by colorfully uninhibited performances from its actors who were given a candid and [...]

In the post-nuclear war Jerusalem of Dead End a couple teengers, Kineret (Gaya Beer Gurevich) & Yarden (Ofir Sasson) act as teengers do while searching through the aftermath of a decimated city and its outskirts for their wandering little brother who’s forever one step ahead of them.  Sounds like a laugh riot, I know. Dead [...]

I'm almost at a loss of what to say about Jordan Wong's Mountain Lodge. I found it hilarious, of course, except more in the way that it kept a happily bemused grin on my face for pretty much the whole thing than a constant laugh-out-loud sense. Don't get me wrong--I absolutely laughed aloud on a [...]