DOCNYC 2023 Festival Preview
by Daniel Pecoraro, Staff Writer
I’m especially looking forward to covering DOCNYC, New York’s annual celebration of documentary film at the IFC Center, SVA Theater, and Village East Cinema (and online) November 8–26.
Toronto After Dark: Shorts Roundup
by Billie Anderson, Staff Writer
This past month, I had the opportunity to cover the Toronto After Dark Film Festival–a horror and science-fiction film festival that promises five nights of local and international content for thousands of horror fans every year.
BLACK NOISE is an underwhelming sci-fi slasher
by Gary M. Kramer, Staff Writer
Had the characters worked through their guilt and traumas, Black Noise might have been more compelling.
SUBJECT is a documentary about living in the real world as we watch almost-real depictions of it
by Alex Rudolph, Staff Writer
Subject, the new film from Camilla Hall and Jennifer Tiexiera, asks those questions about the ways documentaries (and, often implicitly, audiences) treat their stars.
Coppola’s PRISCILLA shares little of the person herself
by Rosalie Kicks, Old Sport and Editor in Chief
Sofia Coppola’s film, Priscilla shares fleeting snippets of a young woman’s past and invites the watcher to draw their own conclusions.
Read MoreALL THE FIRES burns with youthful confusion
by Jo Rempel, Staff Writer
As an ex-teen/ex-boy, any teen boy depicted with a hint of realism is going to freak me out. I just happen to find anything close to my adolescence deeply unpleasant.
Artificial Bodies, Artificial Lives: Introducing Robby the Robot
by Tessa Swehla, Staff Writer
Created by such members of the MGM prop department as Arnold Gillespie and Robert Kinoshita, Robby is another leap forward in android design.
The Legend of the Banana Stand: ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT After Two Decades
by Billy Russell, Staff Writer
Arrested Development turns 20 and it’s original run still stands strong.
How To Start Watching: Invisible Funny Assholes
by Ryan Silberstein, Managing Editor
If there is one thing that unites all of these invisible people is that they tend to be assholes. The best kind, as we will see, are funny assholes, using invisibility in a playful way, at least until they lose their minds.
Dispatches from the Hatch #10: Why Women Kill, the Uneven Writing of Women on LOST
by Megan Bailey, Staff Writer
The writing of women on LOST is… a bit uneven.
THE DELINQUENTS invites the audience to spend time with its characters
by Gary M. Kramer, Staff Writer
The Delinquents is full of lovely little scenes to be appreciated, but after three hours the payoff may not be satisfying. However, for some, the film will continue in one’s head, and that makes it worth watching.
Read MoreSCRAP offers little beyond being an unremarkable indie drama
by Ian Hrabe, Staff Writer
These little indie dramas, composed of by-the-numbers shot/reverse shot sequences, put so much focus on the dialogue that it really has to be great. No one has ever talked like the people in this movie, who talk like what a first time screenwriter thinks people talk like.
Hell on Earth: War in Cinema – Spooky Edition: DOG SOLDIERS
by Billy Russell, Staff Writer
Dog Soldiers is one of those movies that feels like a checklist of movie references and cliches, but less as a routine exercise in formulaic filmmaking, and more as a clever pastiche of best-of moments of the genre
BODY COUNT serves up classic vibes in a new short
by Nikk Nelson, Staff Writer, Cinematic Maniac
The music in Body Count stands out—I loved all the songs. The film is composed, shot, and executed adeptly.
Cursed to be Queer: Mark Pirro’s CURSE OF THE QUEERWOLF and MY MOM'S A WEREWOLF
by M. Lopes da Silva, Staff Writer
The films broadcast bigotry but do not examine what they broadcast, using the comedy genre’s relentless energy and forward momentum to protect their intolerance from interrogation like a politician rapidly mumbling nonsense at a press conference.
Cinematic Maniac vs The Werewolf triple feature
by Nikk Nelson, Staff Writer, Cinematic Maniac
The obscure, the forgotten gems, and the so bad it’s good.
Frankenstein's Monster Is My Neighbor
by Rosalie Kicks, Old Sport & Editor in Chief
While viewing this INCREDIBLE series, I could not help but mull over the idea of living next door to America’s favorite spooky family.
Read MoreHAYRIDE TO HELL needs more hay, needs more hell
by Nikk Nelson, Staff Writer
This hits just above Birdemic for me, as far as overall executions to compare it to. That’s not to say I didn’t/don’t enjoy Birdemic or didn’t enjoy this hayride as well.
Read MoreTHE FIFTH THORACIC VERTEBRA is a nasty fungus feature
by Jo Rempel, Contributor
The Fifth Thoracic Vertebra is tense—seeing two people occupy a bedroom gives a new twist on Hitchcock’s adage about telling the audience a bomb’s about to go off—but its emotional arc is closer to ensemble films like Magnolia, or Cloud Atlas.
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