Author: Nimisha Menon

Boomslang: A Perfect Ensemble For A Dark Comedy

Director Trevor Ryan’s 14:13 minutes long Boomslang is an even-paced, sinisterly comedy of a serial killer and his ambitious venture into a new town. Ryan Vincent is Erik Boomslang, the charming protagonist who doesn’t take a minute to let you into his thoughts. As facinorous as they might be, his soothing voice makes them seem… Continue reading Boomslang: A Perfect Ensemble For A Dark Comedy

Lucy: A Moving Story Of Two Unsuspecting Characters

James (James Aaron Oliver) is an electric scooter collector in Los Angeles. His achingly lonely life is evident right from the opening shot. As the camera follows him around, we go about his routine as he does. The emptiness unbearable beyond a point, James is perhaps the silent voice to the countless battling depression amongst… Continue reading Lucy: A Moving Story Of Two Unsuspecting Characters

A Missed Connection: A Rendezvous Of A Different Kind

When Jake (Tyler Pistorius) has a bad day, from what seems like one of several others, little does he expect the evening to end well unless his coffee is concocted with something stronger… Pistorius who plays him makes him hard to like, even harder to understand. He is reserved, temperamental and a man of few,… Continue reading A Missed Connection: A Rendezvous Of A Different Kind

Foggy Days: Exquisitely Shot Modern Day Romance

Somewhere in Stockholm in 2018, two individuals fall in love. And, their story resonates with all those who have in the times of the social media. Director-Writer Martin Sandin’s 17:20 short Foggy Days is unique, classic and universal. He peels off the romance, the sheen to reveal the raw, aching, vulnerable self of the individual… Continue reading Foggy Days: Exquisitely Shot Modern Day Romance

Getting A Scholarship: This Is No Ordinary Crime

Sexual crime requires sensitive viewing, even more, sensitive portrayal, but what do you do when the lines blur between the perpetrators and the victims? Director-Writer Gary O. Bennett’s Getting A Scholarship is a 6:34 minutes long film on a student-professor relationship that goes sour after one accuses the other of taking advantage of her. That… Continue reading Getting A Scholarship: This Is No Ordinary Crime

Through The Looking Glass: A Very Promising Meet Cute

The director’s note says that it’s based on an actual window and an actual charade. What a disappointment it would have been, had it not been so! Writer-Director Indigo Bates’s Through The Looking Glass is a 2:37 minutes short film on a very novel, original meet-cute. It’s the music that one’s first drawn to, even… Continue reading Through The Looking Glass: A Very Promising Meet Cute

Are You Wild Like Me?: An Ode To Umberto Lenzi’s Cinema

Writer-Director-Editor Billy Nawrocki’s Are You Wild Like Me? is a 10:08 minutes long film on cannibalism. Not so much of a horror as it’s touted to be, the film is a grotesque visual narration of flesh-eating entities. When Laura Peterson and Derek Roberts who play the parents lose their child, an 8-month old Brianna Lenzi,… Continue reading Are You Wild Like Me?: An Ode To Umberto Lenzi’s Cinema

Dusters: Revisiting Western Films

Filmed in Australia, Dusters is a 28:30 minutes long film that pays homage to Western films. Director Noel Vinson’s take on it seamlessly blends the classic genre with contemporary cinematic styles of horror and suspense to give a slow, neatly paced film that surprises the audience as much as its characters. The film opens to… Continue reading Dusters: Revisiting Western Films

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