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
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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
Ainsley: An Examination Of Why We Fall
Matt Gorrell serves as writer, director, cinematographer, and editor for Ainsley, but none of these aspects of the film are done well enough to make for a likeable story. On every front, the film suffers from a lack of skill, resulting in a completely amateurish substance and form. Gorrell builds the story around the eponymous… Continue reading Ainsley: An Examination Of Why We Fall
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
Wives Of The Skies: Peering Through The Lens That Objectifies Women
Discomfort – if one word could describe the effect and emotions Wives Of The Skies evoke in the viewer, it would be that – abject discomfort. Peering through the lens of cinematographer Davey Robertson, we see the two stewardesses, bold and vulnerable. Rachel Alig and Maddison Bullock play Fran and Marcy respectively, the two women… Continue reading Wives Of The Skies: Peering Through The Lens That Objectifies Women
As One: Inspiring You To Find Your Coping Mechanism
Writer Tawny Sorensen’s As One is a 14:39 minutes long film on loss, grief and the journey between the two – covered one step at a time. Sorensen who also plays one of the leads in the film picks on the cancer-genre, a sub-category that we have been well-exposed to, but what she does with… Continue reading As One: Inspiring You To Find Your Coping Mechanism
Cagnolino: Examining Violence Through The Reluctant Villains
Hugo Diego Garcia’s French-Italian short Cagnolino (meaning little dog) is as epic as Tony was, his first venture as screenwriter. Garcia retains themes, actors and style from Tony. There is again that delicious mix of music, bliss and fast-approaching trouble. At the centre of this tale is Dario, played by Garcia, and Dali (Pietro Mercieca).… Continue reading Cagnolino: Examining Violence Through The Reluctant Villains
Are You Hungry?: Distills And Intensifies Twenty-First Century Parental Fears
The comic aspect of Teemu Niukkanen’s comedy Are You Hungry? presides in the film’s maddening downward spiral into utter paranoia and breakdown of its main character, an overprotective mother. She (Pirjo Lonka) has her son’s best interests at heart, a bit too much of it especially since she began suspecting that he may be gay.… Continue reading Are You Hungry?: Distills And Intensifies Twenty-First Century Parental Fears
Misfit M.: A Misfit By Virtue Of Having A Voice
Misfit M. presents a striking form and look, as memorable as the woman it pays tribute to. Austin Ball and Sarah Hempinstall’s meta-documentary honours Marilyn Monroe and the abuse she faced, based on a letter she wrote in 1961. The letter documents her time in a mental health facility to which she was deceitfully admitted… Continue reading Misfit M.: A Misfit By Virtue Of Having A Voice
On In 15: Disaster, Mayhem and Comedy In Fifteen Minutes
In the same year that 1917 was released, the continuous shot film that has everyone talking, here comes a little known one-shot crackpot comedy, On In 15 that is both a single shot and a bottle movie. The entirety of its action takes place in one room, as long as you discount the post-title pre-credits… Continue reading On In 15: Disaster, Mayhem and Comedy In Fifteen Minutes