When you play in the midnight slot of a film festival nowadays, audiences can expect something to go horribly wrong within the world of the movie. So going into...
Right from the start of director Jordan Rubin's Zombeavers, the film scores points for originality. Its horror-comedy tone is familiar, but not until 2015, some...
By now, the lengthy following shot to open a film is an art-house approved cliché. But in The Fool, Yuri Bykov complicates the shot in a way that makes it feel ...
For Franz Kafka, The Castle is about the plight of the individual within oppressive societal customs and the absurd attempt to reach an unattainable. Michael Ha...
A Great Man is divided up into five chapters, the first four of which trace the latter half of the first chapter’s “Hamilton and Markov” duo, while the final, f...
To the right crowd, there are a lot of familiar faces in Benjamin Crotty’s Fort Buchanan, a look into the life of a number of mostly-sexually frustrated army sp...
Throwback horror film We Are Still Here never loses a sense of quiet fun running underneath it. Clearly a loving send-up to films of the past, writer-director T...
Horror comedy has long been one of the most difficult genres mixes to pull off successfully. For The Final Girls, a high-concept meta riff on the slasher horror...
What’s left in the dystopia for audiences to discover? After The Hunger Games rejuvenated interest in a world broken at its very social foundations, turning on ...
Low budgets don’t have to constrain a film, and a great example is the serene One & Two, which uses a small amount of locations and characters to bolster th...
