Category: Reviews

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

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

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

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

Mente Mariposa, directed by Sebastian Ortiz Wilkins is an experimental short film which in 6 minutes, through the art of the metaphor swiftly and briefly traces the near-death experiences of a man and a woman buried alive in coffins. ‘Death’ narrates and compares the life of the humans in the coffins to its garden while… Continue reading An Exhilarating Experience With Mente Mariposa

People’s reaction to trauma is so mind-bogglingly complex and varied, that simplistic reasoning does not necessarily explain or predict it. Some close down, some breakout but clumsily, while some others might just try to go about their daily lives as though nothing happened. Manuela Vasquez’s Lighthouse delves into the reaction a dancer, Paige has to… Continue reading Lighthouse: Important Story Clumsily Told

Covering a small but crucial moment of reforming old bonds between two sisters, Amanda Spencer’s drama Every Grain of Sand, co-written by Toby Osborne, rests in the realm of bitterness, quasi-catharsis and just approaching peace.  In a stifling trailer, Mae (Tara Riggs, of DeKalb Elementary fame) finds her grave resentment explode upon losing the last… Continue reading Every Grain of Sand: Grappling With Different Kinds of Grief

The Big American Dream. Every year people from all over the world migrate to the United States of America to realize their dream of making it big and achieve the success that the rest of the world is insufficient to fulfil. Our Home Here is a 16:53-minute story of the lives of four people, whose… Continue reading Our Home Here: Paying The Cost Of Having A Dream

Andrea Silvestro’s Claire is a complete package of engaging cinema. Claire is a young woman who is coping with the slow fallout of her relationship with her fiancé and struggles to let go of her feelings for him. The story of Claire will lead you through the grief of her character and leave you in… Continue reading Claire: A Fine Example of Melancholy on Cinema

Finally, we get a clown film that clowns instead of scaring unsuspecting children into a paralysing lifelong fear of people who are only trying to make you laugh. Written by Jack George and directed by Jack B. Levy, Stop IT! sneaks in the giggles, satisfying itself with winning the small battles and merrily mocking itself… Continue reading Stop IT!: Stopping Pennywise With Jokes