2020s

Slamdance 2025: Noggin and Bloqué
Slamdance 2025: Noggin and Bloqué

Today, we’re looking at two shorts: One about a filmmaker preparing for the progression of his diagnosis, the other about a drummer struggling creatively.

HOUSE OF SPOILS: Mostly Just Rotten Food
HOUSE OF SPOILS: Mostly Just Rotten Food

House of Spoils is striking and interesting at first, but by the time the action comes it is too little, too late.

THE MONKEY: A Disgustingly Bloody Good Time
THE MONKEY: A Disgustingly Bloody Good Time

Like a Saturday Morning cartoon drenched in blood, The Monkey throws everything it can at its audiences.

NOSFERATU: More Than A Mustache
NOSFERATU: More Than A Mustache

Nosferatu is a cinema masterpiece, an art house piece from an indie director who could do anything he wanted yet he chooses to make high art.

Slamdance 2025: Standout: The Ben Kjar Story and Know Me
Slamdance 2025: Standout: The Ben Kjar Story and Know Me

For this installment of Slamdance coverage, we’re looking at an inspiring documentary and a gripping fictional drama based on a true story.

Slamdance 2025: My Omaha and The Hole Story
Slamdance 2025: My Omaha and The Hole Story

Today, we’re looking at two documentaries: One focusing on social justice in Omaha, and another exploring a mysterious hole in northern California.

COMPANION: Not Your Typical Robot Buddy
COMPANION: Not Your Typical Robot Buddy

It’s 97 minutes of pure bonkers cinema and it deserves to be watched by as many people as possible.

"Nickel Boys" (2024) - source: Amazon MGM Studios
NICKEL BOYS: An Uneven Experiment In Perspective

Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Colson Whitehead, Nickel Boys follows a young man,…

Slamdance Film Festival 2025: RACEWALKERS

Racewalkers reminds us of the beauty in embracing the quirky, the unconventional, and the unexpected.

A Case for 'Flow' Winning Best Animated Feature
A Case for ‘Flow’ Winning Best Animated Feature

In my opinion, no picture is more worthy of receiving best animated feature than Gints Zilbalodis’ Flow (2024).

HEART EYES: Valentine's Day Is No Longer Safe
HEART EYES: Valentine’s Day Is No Longer Safe

Heart Eyes is an ode to holiday horror-slasher films of the past, coming into a space that has been left vacant for a while and solidly planting their flag.

Slamdance 2025: American Theater and Foul Evil Deeds
Slamdance 2025: American Theater and Foul Evil Deeds

We’re taking a look at a documentary following a conservative musical theater production and an ensemble dark comedy about people acting out in suburbia.

THE QUIET ONES: Going Through the Motions

Teal and orange have made a serious comeback, at least in Frederik Louis Hviid’s new…

"The Outrun" (2024) Saoirse Ronan Nora Fingscheidt
Interview with Writer/Director Nora Fingscheidt for THE OUTRUN

Most movies aren’t shot on the Orkney Islands. But The Outrun isn’t most movies. Directed…

One Night in Tokyo review
ONE NIGHT IN TOKYO: A Modest Indie Overcoming The Barrier of Language

Any chance I get to live vicariously through someone else’s experience in Japan, I’ll take…