Film Reviews
While thus far, I have delivered my thoughts in the showcases, in my last report, there’s a little bit of everything.
One of the biggest surprises of the 2023 HollyShorts Film Festival was its showcase of Adult Animation.
Before, Now & Then is a film that dares to ask this question and forces us to wrestle with the painful truth at the core of the answer.
With an emotional family-focused core and some unique visual flourishes, Blue Beetle is surpisingly memorable.
King Coal is a rare work of art that manages to look forward precisely by looking backward.
Beginning on August 10, 2023, this year’s HollyShorts kicked off with quite a start.
Strays is a mess of limited ideas, mined from the inebriated story idea, “What if a typical dog movie had more profanity and poop?”.
Unspooled like a true crime tale, Satan Wants You writes an origin story for this salacious, sensationalist phenomenon.
Amongst the horrors, dramas and animation, the festival never forgets to laugh.
I Like Movies manages to strum all the right cords in a truly unique celebration of cinema itself.
From demonic possessions to haunted polaroids, from motherhood to neocolonialism, the HollyShorts horror section has a taste of it all.
The Last Voyage of the Demeter turns in a light Dracula voyage too bound by its stock itinerary to sail into more adventurous waters.
Madeleine Collins proves that Virginie Efira belongs to that elite tier of actresses capable of elevating even the most mediocre material.
King On Screen is one hell of a trip down Stephen King cinema memory lane.
Prey offers an excellent example of less being more, especially in a series long known for its over-the-top dialogue and gory violence.