Rickshaw Girl (2021)
Based on the novel by Mitali Perkins, the Rickshaw Girl of the title is Naima (Novera Rahman), who may not have been much of a student yet is an incredible artist. Her father (Naresh Bhuiyan) encourages her to develop her talent by allowing her to paint his rickshaw, but seeing as how they live in a poor […]
Those Who Call (2021)
Shot in Magnolia, TX and based on a Cuban folk tale, director and writer Anubys Lopez’s first film finds sisters Ana (Angie Sandoval) and Sandra (Yetlanezi Rodriguez) taking a roadtrip to reconnect and going through Whispering Pines, the kind of town where even the gas station owners try to attack you when you want to […]
Last Night In Soho (2021)
Director Edgar Wright, who also co-wrote this with Krysty Wilson-Cairns, said, “Something that I find truly nightmarish — and I guess there’s an element where I’m sort of giving a sharp rebuke to myself — is the danger of being overly nostalgic about previous decades. In a way, the film is about romanticizing the past […]
WELL GO BLU RAY RELEASE: The Ambush (2021)
Directed by Pierre Morel (Taken) and written by Brandon and Kurtis Birtell, The Ambush is the story of Emirati soldiers caught in an ambush which has destroyed their armored vehicle patrol, but its all a trap to take out more soldiers and an Apache chopper that is coming to rescue them. Morel is great at getting across […]
Clean Slate (2021)
Two friends — Joshua Litton and Cassidy Detmer — in a Southern drug recovery program decide to express themselves and try to escape their addiction and mental illness by making a short film about the pain they’ve caused their families. They are in an 18-month, zero-tolerance program sponsored by A Better Way Ministries that will give […]
AMANDO DE OSSORIO WEEK: Scream of the Blind Dead (2021)
Director, writer and musician Chris Alexander has taken what most remember from the Blind Dead films — synth-driven slow motion moments of a gorgeous woman being chased through the Spanish countryside by undead Knights Templar — and turned it into forty minutes of fright for Betty (Ali Chappell) who runs through the Canadian countryside in […]
DISMEMBERCEMBER: Home Sweet Home Alone (2021)
Dan Mazer, who directed this, is the production partner of Sacha Baron Cohen and co-wrote Borat and Bruno with him. The writers of this were Mikey Day from Saturday Night Live and that show’s head writer Streeter Seidell. If you’ve seen the quality of what’s airing at 11:30 on Saturday nights lately, this movie should be no surprise, […]
WATCH THE SERIES: The Purge Part 2
The First Purge (2018): The first Purge, that is, the original 2013 film, wasn’t all that great. Yet each sequel has done the exact opposite of tradition by being better than the film that inspired it. 2016’s The Purge: Election Year ended the 12-hour evening of lawlessness, so where do you go from here? A prequel. Can it […]
Nr. 10 (2021)
Alex van Warmerdam, who also made Borgman and Schneider vs. Bax, has really made one of the strangest films I’ve seen at Fantastic Fest, which is a real testament. That’s because it starts like some sort of highbrow art film, as a director worries about the opening night of his new play. One of the actors has […]
ANOTHER HOLE IN THE HEAD FILM FESTIVAL 2022: Shorts take three
Here are some more shorts from the Another Hole In the Head Film Festival. Ringworms (2022): A sinister cult looks to gain occult power through cursed worms and find the perfect host within Abbie, a young woman with commitment issues hours away from receiving a marriage proposal from the boyfriend she doesn’t even think she likes. Faye […]
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