LOVELY, DARK, AND DEEP tanks a promising start
by Clayton Hayes, Staff Writer
…At which point I yelled “WHAT?” at the screen, the only reasonable reaction to LDD trying to end on that note.
by Clayton Hayes, Staff Writer
…At which point I yelled “WHAT?” at the screen, the only reasonable reaction to LDD trying to end on that note.
by Daniel Pecoraro, Staff Writer
While the film starts in medias res, eleven days into the war in Veselka’s crowded basement kitchen, the film takes a broad look at Veselka’s place in the history of Little Ukraine and the East Village.
by Tori Potenza, Staff Writer
The festival’s focus on women and non-binary filmmakers has given many filmmakers, academics, and others who join in to find a space to congregate and share the spotlight when they might feel marginalized in other similar spaces.
by Megan Robinson, Staff Writer
What hurts Bleeding Love the most is its writing. Though it has some funny scenes, it never escapes the shackles of a cookie cutter plot.
by Tori Potenza, Staff Writer
For all its fantastical elements its themes are grounded in our realities, especially around power and the way barbarism has evolved in our modern day.
by Tina Kakadelis, Staff Writer
“I want to tell you a story…all you have to do is listen.”
by Alex Rudolph, Staff Writer
October 2021 to March 2022. That's when director Morgan Jon Fox filmed The Hobby, a new documentary about the business of trading cards, accidentally catching a market most of us never think about at a startling peak.
by Gary M. Kramer, Staff Writer
Midnight Peepshow may suggest a thriller filled with deep, dark, dirty sexual fantasies, but this anthology film delivers more violence than sex.
by Daniel Pecoraro, Staff Writer
The trauma of Drift shouldn’t define it, as ultimately it’s a film about intimacy cutting through fear and precarity, and how the kindness of strangers need not come with strings attached.
by Clayton Hayes, Staff Writer
Restore Point seems to be drawing on sci-fi cinema from this side of the Atlantic though, with its most obvious influences being Blade Runner and Minority Report.
by Rosalie Kicks, Staff Writer and Editor in Chief
There is a lot going on with Lisa Frankenstein, and it is easy to get swallowed up in the film due to the kitschy eighties ephemera, brightly colored palette and electric personalities. However, where the film fails is by not having any connective tissue to bring it together.
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The film works when it’s tracking the two artists’ paths to, and their time in, the studio.
by Billy Russell, Staff Writer
The Zone of Interest is one of those movies that would be an incredible, if depressing, metaphor for the state of things today no matter when it was released.
by Katharine Mussellam, Contributor
The film follows Lindy (Maddie Ziegler), a teenage girl who, like the director McGlynn herself, is diagnosed with MRKH syndrome.
by M. Lopes da Silva, Staff Writer
Skin Deep takes a potentially interesting metaphor about transition, then muddles it with recessive, ableist views of “broken bodies” and sexual assault that it’s unwilling to fully engage with.
by Clayton Hayes, Staff Writer
It’s not surprising to see women’s interest in horror left out, but it is disappointing. Dario Argento: Panico is otherwise an engaging documentary that will undoubtedly be popular with horror and cult film fans.
by Tori Potenza, Staff Writer
If you are looking for a fun, easy to watch ode to ‘80s nostalgia with some decent kills and bloodshed, this is a serviceable watch.
by Alex Rudolph, Staff Writer
The Seeding looks and feels like exploitation, especially that early Wes Craven exploitation, and it's a relief
by Clayton Hayes, Staff Writer
The much more interesting (and much more successful) part of the film, the character study, is completely overshadowed by the shoehorned-in action sequences.
by Jo Rempel, Staff Writer
“Peaked in high school” is an insult for a reason.