by Edward Douglas | Jul 27, 2018 | VOD Reviews
Immigration and ICE have been largely at the forefront of news over the past few months, so when John Wildman asked me to review a few films for FestWorks, I knew that Ryan Prows’ darkly prescient Lowlife would be one of the films worth rewatching. Lowlife premiered...
by Miguel Cima | Jun 14, 2018 | VOD Reviews
Sometimes, a horror movie isn’t about body counts, jump scares and repulsive monsters. Where fans of slasher films or creature features always seek out the gory payoff, it can be more intriguing to fear the journey more than the destination. In director Philip...
by Miguel Cima | Jan 11, 2018 | VOD Reviews
In case you missed it, a massive chemical spill happened on January 9th, 2014, in Charleston, West Virginia. Never heard of it? It was the same year that the infamous lead-poisoned water scandal broke in Flint, Michigan. Flint affected 100,000 residents’ drinking...
by Miguel Cima | Nov 22, 2017 | VOD Reviews
Paul Taylor is to be heartily commended for his feature film debut, Driftwood. Beyond the substance of the story – which does matter, and we’ll get to that – the film has the audacity to weave a cohesive and absorbing narrative without a single bit of dialogue. Now,...
by Jennifer McCann | Oct 15, 2017 | VOD Reviews
You’re a 12 year old girl in a new school and a new city on your way to a school picnic in white jeans, what could go wrong? Your first menstrual cycle, damnit, but instead of following the current trend of easy gross-out humor, writer/director Dorie Barton...
by Miguel Cima | Oct 7, 2017 | VOD Reviews
OK, so, before we talk about Peter Vack’s debut comedy feature film Assholes, let’s start with some advisory statements. First of all, if you can’t handle early John Waters films like Pink Flamingos and Female Trouble, then stop right here. No, this film doesn’t get...
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