the Christmas Eve sermon, the pastor observed that for most of us, Christmas is marked as either a time of great joy or profound grief. In Bennet De Brabandere’s The Christmas Spirit, our protagonist must go through extreme measures to move beyond grief to find his joy.
ROMI Featured, Reviews Film Threat The greatest strength of Robert Cuffley’s ROMI is its social poignancy. It taps into a burgeoning movement of films that focus on rogue technology, specifically the danger of AI assistants. Cuffley uses his cutting-edge visual identity to convincingly combine the tone of a crime thriller with the horror of a … Read more
American Fiction Cord Jefferson hits a nerve (and hates it himself) in American Fiction, a satirical drama based on Percival Everett’s novel Erasure.
Filmmaker Timm Kröger’s crazy new movie, The Universal Theory, is literally everything: a dark mystery, a sci-fi thriller, a romance, a psychedelic trip and a spy movie.
CONTACT ROME MOVIE 2023 REVIEW! It’s no surprise that fame comes with compromises. Shira Piven’s feature film The Performance examines how far a starving artist will go just to have an audience. It’s 1937 and Harold May (Jeremy Piven) is a talented American tap dancer, which means he’s a struggling artist with no money.
This year marks a milestone in dedication, creativity and perhaps a little creative madness with the release of visual effects master Phil Tippett’s stop-motion animated film, Mad God .
Divinity Featured, Reviews Film Threat RIGHT IN THEATER! If “far, man” are your three favorite words, then knock on the door to see writer/producer/director Eddie Alcazar’s bizarre sci-fi flick, Divinity. In the future, fewer people will be born due to mass infertility. However, people are living longer thanks to Divinity, the popular drug from Pierce … Read more
Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the next level of sophisticated rock and roll horror in director Josh Morris’s extraordinary Bliss of Evil.
AWARD THIS! 2023 NOMINEE! After doing television for a while, the incomparable Richard Elfman has been on quite the creative streak. From Aliens, Clowns, & Geeks to helping celebrate Full Moon’s many classics with the Carnage Collection, the filmmaker is once again reveling in the sheer absurdity of what cinema does best: transport audiences into the vision and mindset of the director.
The Bell Keeper started out as one of those C-grade slasher movies that was mocked by the excellent The Cabin in the Woods (2012).