Category: Festival Release
Tribeca 2024: Documentary- Missing From Fire Trail Road
Director Sabrina Van Tassel powerful documentary, Missing From Fire Trail Road, examines the devastating case of Mary Ellen Johnson-Davis, an Indigenous woman who disappeared from the Tulalip Reservation of Tulalip, Washington in 2020. Johnson-Davis is far from the only case
Tribeca 2024: Documentary- Linda Perry: Let It Die Here
Singer/songwriter Linda Perry is vulnerable, direct, and completely honest about every aspect of her life. In the new documentary, Linda Perry: Let It Die Here, (premiering in the Spotlight+ section of the 2024 Tribeca Film Festival), director Don Hardy is
Tribeca 2024: Short Film Competition- Shut Up, Jack
We have all stuck our respective feet in our respective mouths on more than one occasion. Even those who are comfortable in any social situation have felt the wrath of embarrassment from saying something inappropriate. Sometimes, reading the room is
Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival: ‘Grassland’ Film Review No
With its unflinching look at the failures of our criminal justice system, William Bermudez and Sam Friedman’s Grassland is a powerful and important social justice drama. Through the microcosm of a single Latina mother who grows and sells marijuana to
Miami Film Festival Premiere: ‘Fallen Fruit’ Film Review
Fallen Fruit is the feature film debut from writer/director Chris Molina. This is a sometimes humorous, sometimes touching, and always convincing story of a young man in flux, as he finds himself at a crossroads much too early in life.
‘Merchant Ivory’ Film Review: A Moving, In Depth Look at Two Of Cinema’s Best Filmmakers
In the beginning of the quite wonderful new documentary “Merchant Ivory”, Emma Thompson is speaking of her introduction to their films. The actress remembers it was their 1986 classic “A Room With a View” and speaks of “the beauty of
Film Review: ‘Failure’- A Great Ted Raimi Anchors A Gripping Thriller
Alex Kahuam’s “Failure!” is a well-written character piece that gives actor Ted Raimi a role that shows off the actor’s underused depth of talent. As James, a man teetering on the precipice of financial and familial ruin, Raimi is
Film Review: ‘That’s A Wrap’- A Clever, Giallo-Tinged, Slasher Homage
Shown at this year’s Florida based Popcorn Frights Festival (and premiering this weekend at the 2023 Frightfest London), Marcel Walz’s “That’s a Wrap” is a new low budget horror film that is stylish and quite entertaining. Writers Joe Knetter
Film review: ‘Mermaid’s Lament”- Fantasy, Reality, And The Soul
Doing press for his soon to be released film “Mermaid’s Lament”, director G.B. Hajim released a statement; “My son and I have anxiety. Without medication it can be unbearable at times. The one place we never feel anxious about is
Tribeca 2023: ‘Cinnamon’- Film Review
Tribeca Film Festival 2023- “Cinnamon” This year’s Tribeca festival was a good one. It saddens me to have to wrap it up with what will certainly go down as one of the worst films of the year, Bryian Keith Montgomery