The nightingale had, in its stroke of romantic inspiration, given up its own life to make way for someone else’s love. Oscar Wilde’s The Nightingale and The Rose finds a darker take on its tale of love, selfishness and sacrifice in Natacha Thomas’ 8-minute short, Blossom. While Wilde pondered on the fallacies of love, romanticism… Continue reading Blossom: Going The Murderous Mile for Love
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We’re All Here: We Have All Seen This Before
Protagonist moves into new apartment/house/villa with a horrific past and is subsequently served up as dinner for body-snatching ghosts/demons/any number of variations on a malevolent supernatural entity. Writer-director Lucy Luna’s We’re All Here is a story we’ve all seen play out before. Christin Muuli as Anika Mills, a literature podcaster and the latest unsuspecting protagonist,… Continue reading We’re All Here: We Have All Seen This Before
Look!: The Loneliness Of Combating Loneliness With Self-Reliance
Look! asks you not just to look closely, but to look where there may not be much to look at. Look! asks you to see. Writer-director Adam Trad’s 5:55-minute short watches Evan (Jonathan Reason) ponder on his life, sitting on a park bench in Sightly Park (appropriately named for more than one reason). It is… Continue reading Look!: The Loneliness Of Combating Loneliness With Self-Reliance
Town Hall: Going The Unorthodox Extra Mile For The Greater Good
Town Hall. Casey Lock styles this story of townspeople affected by corporate greed like a courtroom drama. In a small town, the city councillor is retiring. A kindly man with a booming voice, Carl (Steve Herson) is being replaced by his colleague, Olivia (Robyn Coffin), a woman on the Vinci company’s trail with the certainty… Continue reading Town Hall: Going The Unorthodox Extra Mile For The Greater Good
Vengeance Runs Red: Classic Tale of Exacting Revenge
Violence in cinema means little in and of itself. Each significant act of violence on screen is built up with meaningful plot and characters so that when blood finally runs, it has the emotional impact that lasts for at least a while. Without that backing, it can feel feeble – or worse still, evoke no… Continue reading Vengeance Runs Red: Classic Tale of Exacting Revenge
Ayuda: Small Updates on The Classic Horror Film
Ayuda. Spanish for help. Patrick Mason’s Ayuda, a neat little horror film, circles around people’s urge to help, sometimes at personal cost. Touching upon immigration issues as well, Mason structures Ayuda to be a set of new features on a conventional story and its telling. David LaMorte and Caleb Vasquez co-star as Tomas and Leo,… Continue reading Ayuda: Small Updates on The Classic Horror Film
A Goth Retelling Of Milton’s Epic With Lost + Found
Based on John Milton’s epic Paradise, Jeremiah Kipp’s Lost + Found is a film noir moulded in the likeness of Baz Luhrman’s Romeo+Juliet, following, of course, Satan’s plan to corrupt God’s world where Adam (Carl Hendrick Louis) and Eve (Pia Haddad) live without sin. Besides the obvious similarity in titles, the film also borrows Romeo+Juliet’s… Continue reading A Goth Retelling Of Milton’s Epic With Lost + Found
Love Ghost: The Journey Through Ireland
Making a name for oneself in any kind of profession is an uphill battle; doing the same at a very young age is even more difficult. But Los Angeles based rock band named Love Ghost makes it look easy with their unique brand of music that seems to have struck a chord with the public.… Continue reading Love Ghost: The Journey Through Ireland
Catch: A New Superhero Series In The Making
Taher Bowman might just remind you of Miles Morales. He is a regular kid with a cop father, with more interest in art than academics who finds out in a life or death situation that he has superpowers. Adante Watts’ Catch introduces us to Taher, played by Zephaniah Terry, in this 22-minute story, with the… Continue reading Catch: A New Superhero Series In The Making
A Bloody Mess: The Battle of Individuality Against Tradition
India is a country with one of the richest ancient cultures. Lots of festivals, customs and traditions have been passed on from one generation to the next. Some of these had a lot of relevance and practicality. Today though, is it still appropriate? A Bloody Mess (10:36 minutes) questions one such set of customs. Varsha… Continue reading A Bloody Mess: The Battle of Individuality Against Tradition