Reviews

It seems like only yesterday that millennials were flocking to the theaters to see Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence: Mother! 2017 – our review) volunteer as tribute for The Hunger Games, a twisted, annual competition that forces teens to fight to the death until a victor is named. However, March 23, …

I love horror shorts and I couldn’t wait to check out Blink for SXSW 2022’s Midnight Shorts selection. This horror gem comes from the studio, Scream Gems’ Horror Lab and was directed by Spenser Cohen. It was also co-written by Cohen and Anna Halberg. Blink stars Sophie Thatcher, Alicia Coppola, and …

SXSW is one of the best festivals out there and there were so many options to choose from, but the LGBTQ Crime documentary, Clean, caught my eye. This film was directed by Lachlan McLeod and delivered some insightful and also hard truths about trauma cleaning services and much more! Official …

X is a welcome return to the horror genre for director Ti West. After years of assorted television work and the underrated Ethan Hawke western, In A Valley of Violence, the man behind House of the Devil is back to his roots with a gritty, wild ride of a slasher …

This year’s SXSW film festival is an exciting one, and once again, the task of picking a handful of movies to cover is difficult. With so much genre goodness available to experience, it’s nearly impossible to see everything you want. Yet one film in particular, Sissy, piqued my interest from …

What do you get when you cross Steve Railsback (post Helter Skelter and pre Lifeforce) with a darker, 1970s version of Thirtysomething? You get Scott Mansfield’s Deadly Games. I have to call it a slasher because it has a masked killer and it came out in the sweet spot of …

It’s a spooky summer night around the campfire. The beers are flowing, the party is wild, and it’s time for a scary story to change the lives of some unfortunate, trespassing teenagers. This setup sounds like the perfect backdrop for a nostalgic horror movie, but very few do it like …

Martyn Pick’s Heckle follows the lives of two comedians, Joe Johnson (Guy Combes) and Ray Kelly (Steve Guttenberg), who suffer at the hands of a psycho heckler. Heckle: to interrupt (a public speaker) with derisive or aggressive comments or abuse. “You’re nothing! This is a fucking lesson! You will remember …

A young couple is desperate for a child in award winning playwright Hamza Zaman’s directorial debut, The Institute. This microbudget feature utilizes relatable, pervasive unease and fears to endear its main characters to us. Most of the film’s 90ish minute runtime is a slow burn, but a handful of relatively …

I recently had the chance to watch the wildly bizarre yet entertaining mockumentary, Adventures in Success and it was a blast. Jay Buim’s Adventures in Success had its virtual world premiere at the CinequestFilm and Creativity Festival and went on to screen at Nashville Film Festival, Vail Film Festival, and …