Category: Reviews

A fast, jazzy score and a delightful leading character (among other things from a list of impressive elements), Sam Fichtner’s Thick as Thieves comes with the perfect balance of ingredients that keeps this comedy about a pair of thieves sparklingly fresh. It employs sitcom humour and focuses more on the humorousness of the story than… Continue reading Thick as Thieves: A Romance For The Ages

Thrillers are a tight business. The smallest missteps can make a piece of work fail like a collapsed souffle— not unpalatable but certainly a disappointment. If your antagonist is both oily and stiff, while the unsuspecting potential victims are barely more than ads for their home-for-hire, then we might have a collapsed souffle on our… Continue reading Just Lie Here: Twenty-Three Minutes Of Stolen Identities And Multiple Murders

Writer/Director/Actor Anjeli Jana’s My Marina is an ode to her love affair, one that she cautiously explored, of a famed shore that has been a lover to many. With Jana’s voice over, we see the harbour as she sees it – bright, welcoming, and beguiling. With yachts and sailboats docked, a curious seal peeping out… Continue reading My Marina: Unusual, Quirky And Yet Monochromatic

This is not the first time Leni Riefenstahl has been portrayed as less than a Nazi propagandist, but Fragile Ghost is insufferable for more reasons than this. Kit Wilson’s 17-minute short sees Riefenstahl as an angry filmmaker and unwilling contributor to the Nazi frenzy during the war.  Played by Ronee Collins, the portrayal is jarring… Continue reading Fragile Ghost: A Fragile Revision Of History

Hickey is a supernatural drama accompanied with the gore fest, heavy on audio strings yet easy on its trajectory. Bagging the spot for Best Director in Horror Hotel Award & June Award, Kyle Kleege presents this short in 18:27 minutes.  Kleege gives the cue to the sombre, perturbing reality of a man turned vampire right… Continue reading Hickey: An Unnecessarily Long Entry In A Vampire’s Diary

In Otsuchi, there is a glass-panelled phone booth on a hilltop garden with a disconnected phone within, meant to connect people with their dead. After an earthquake, a tsunami and a nuclear meltdown hit Japan, thousands found their way to this kaze no denwa, seeking solace for their cruelly uprooted lives. By speaking into a… Continue reading The Wind Phone: Letters Of Love Written On The Wind

“It’s a funny thing-hunger. You can forget it for a little while, but there always comes a time when you remember- it is there. And, when you do, it’s all you can think about.” Rica Sweeney, the writer-producer-director of Bone, divides the 14:52 minutes runtime in four chapters, showing the perspective of a dog contending… Continue reading Bone: A Tell-All With A Drug Runner Dog

A mockumentary about a reclusive musician, famous because of a rather unfortunate video of his breakdown more than a decade ago, Randy Butcher’s Sonny Nites is the Best There’s Never Been (SNITBTNB), utilises its 25-minute runtime to render itself an engaging experience for the viewer.  The premise in itself is a curious thing and manages… Continue reading Sonny Nites is the Best There’s Never Been: Slick Comedy About Self-Exiled Stars

A man hurriedly walks in and takes a seat beside four other, perfectly placid people. He wears a label that says ‘Chimp’. In Ian Bousher and Theo Gee’s Aping, everything comes neatly labelled, and sent to hell just as neatly, with surgical precision. The premise is simple. How would you act and react in the… Continue reading Aping: Filmmaking Duo’s Surgically Administered Chaos