Queer stories have seldom been given their due credit. It isn’t just the literature on them that warrants attention; but deep, personal tales that rarely make it to the forefront, much less the screens that truly deserve the attention. One such film is Adam Swain Ferguson’s Patrick. Based on Ferguson’s own, unforgettable experience, the film… Continue reading Patrick: A Coming-Of-Age Drama Based On True Accounts
Category: Reviews
Monitored: Horror And Mystery With A Side Of Comedy
Daniel Florio’s 10-minute mystery thriller Monitored takes game night a few notches higher. Centred around two couples and a baby, the plot sets the stage for horror when the baby is apparently kidnapped, the kidnapper playing with his victims through the baby monitor. The setup is fairly straightforward: Erik (Eddie Egan) and Mary (Jessica Ritacco)… Continue reading Monitored: Horror And Mystery With A Side Of Comedy
Uninvited: A Terrifying Account Of One Night
Written and Produced by Ashutosh Lobo Gajiwala, Uninvited under the Lekh-Haq Films Production is an unforgettable, nightmarish retelling of a night’s event. Directed by Terence-Hari Fernandes, the film is capped at 6:22-minutes and doesn’t waste a single frame in recounting what could clearly have been a haunting experience. The film opens to Rhea’s return home.… Continue reading Uninvited: A Terrifying Account Of One Night
Who The F*ck is Jeffrey Gurian?: Energetic Documentary On A Colourful Personality
As much as Derek Brown’s documentary Who The F*ck is Jeffrey Gurian? is about the regrets of dashed hopes, it is brimming with optimism, accumulated over more than two decades by its subject: comedy writer and former dentist, Jeffrey Gurian. If Gurian’s energy is unhesitatingly lively, Brown’s editing spreads and blends that into the documentary… Continue reading Who The F*ck is Jeffrey Gurian?: Energetic Documentary On A Colourful Personality
How Am I Doing?: A Bittersweet Expose Of Middle Age
Eli has a lot on his plate; a fumbling career, a blubbering agent, an ex-wife who is soon-to-be-married and a daughter whose heart needs to be won over, every day. As if these weren’t alone enough, writer Ken Perlstein makes Eli a recovering alcoholic. If you thought these were too many facets for a singular… Continue reading How Am I Doing?: A Bittersweet Expose Of Middle Age
Small Boy: Revisiting Childhood Fears
At 9:00-minutes in duration, Small Boy is a strong concoction of childhood memories, fears and finding freedom. With its ensemble cast, consisting only of children and a single adult who never makes it fully to the frame, the film is all in all a revisit to one’s childhood. And, yet, writer-director Nathan Young’s Small Boy… Continue reading Small Boy: Revisiting Childhood Fears
Young, Young Men: Teen Boys Have Rarely Been Seen As Well
Youth, and even teenage for that matter, are rather umbrella terms; great for convenience, but they come up rather short in encompassing the many explosions of development that make up these years. Noah Stratton-Twine’s sublime drama Young, Young Men examines with finesse and refreshing empathy that effervescent period of high school, putting the focus on… Continue reading Young, Young Men: Teen Boys Have Rarely Been Seen As Well
The Five Minutes: A Sci-Fi That Goes Beyond Time-Travel
No matter how many time-travel films you have seen or books you have read, Shange Zhang’s The Five Minutes goes beyond the routine. Granted that the mystique that comes with this genre is guessable, but not the sublime storytelling that Zhang adopts. The Five Minutes combines the elements of drama, fantasy and science fiction all-in-one,… Continue reading The Five Minutes: A Sci-Fi That Goes Beyond Time-Travel
Claude: A Chapter In Mental Health
Chris Frint’s 24:06-minute long Claude works on you slowly. Despite the opening scene that very early on establishes the characters, their dynamics and almost predictable arcs, the uncertainty looms. A film on friendship, family and loss, both accidental and intentional, Claude digs into the after-effects of a traumatic experience that leads into very unexpected outcomes.… Continue reading Claude: A Chapter In Mental Health
Silent: The True Cost Of Poverty And Inequality
There is a lot writer-director Valentyn Korotkevych leaves ambiguous and open to interpretation in his 8-minute film Silent, a film about a homeless boy, his life explored and understood through the influence of music. And the kindness of a stranger. In the total absence of dialogue, Korotkevych demonstrates the life this little boy could have… Continue reading Silent: The True Cost Of Poverty And Inequality