Raada: The Banality of Big and Small Wounds
Varun Chounal and Anuj Jamadagni directed Raada takes its audiences on a ride through the last day of a boy ...
Tag: Crime
Early Bird: A Treasure Hunt after a Heist
Issack Cintrón’s Early Bird is set in the aftermath of a heist. Following a bounty hunter and the last man ...
On the Third Step: A Call, A Missed Shot, and the Unlikely Arrival of the Cops
Anastasia Norenko’s On the Third Step is a 19-minute Russian crime thriller about a hit gone wrong. Seen in flashbacks, ...
Going Down South: Crime and Brotherhood on a Fateful Morning
Joshua Paul Messarge’s Going Down South is a dark comedy that explores a crucial turning point in the lives of ...
$TACK$: The Satire Underneath the Thriller
Gerald Webb’s $TACK$ uses the crime thriller form to bring about a surprising twist that is cutting in its satire. ...
Bugtussle: A Doomed Dash For A Better Life
Derek Sitter’s Bugtussle is a tale of dreams that were always doomed because the dreamers were always doomed. Explored through ...
21st & Colonial: Police Brutality And Its Inevitable Results
21st & Colonial, Angelo Reyes’ 19-minute crime drama (co-written with Toby Osborne), is a depiction of one of many police ...
Danny Boy: A Well-Paced, Crime Thriller For The Gangster Genre Aficionados
This 12:32-minute-long Cory DeMeyers film packs in everything and more than one would expect from a gangster genre. There is ...
Hells Kitchen: Brilliantly Written Mobster Drama Worth Turning Into A Feature Length
16 minutes feel short. Terribly short. For a film of its magnitude—both in terms of the production and concept—Hells Kitchen ...
A Family Business: The Business Of Settling Scores Old And New
Richard Harrington's A Family Business tells a tale of more than just a father and son reconciliation, cocooned in a plot ...
