Homepage

Hot Knives

By Alan Ng | June 2018

I get it. Sometimes as critics, we may take the art of filmmaking way little too seriously. Some filmmakers have something to…

Read More

Hot Knives image — Hot Knives
Read More

I get it. Sometimes as critics, we may take the art of filmmaking way little too seriously. Some filmmakers have something to say. Others have a grand...

Knights of the Damned image — Knights of the Damned
Read More

The problem with tackling a low-budget fantasy film about dragons is how ubiquitous they are. Strictly sticking with movies that hit either VHS, DVD,...

Aamir image — Aamir
Read More

Desolate landscapes and darker circumstances dominate Vika Evdokimenko’s short film, Aamir. It follows 13-year-old Aamir (Alan Asaad) who has escaped...

Strike, Dear Mistress, and Cure His Heart image — Strike, Dear Mistress, and Cure His Heart
Read More

If your definition of the term auteur has less to do with a filmmaker being a critical darling or a household name than it does one simply putting...

Middleground image — Middleground
Read More

Mood and tone are fundamental in a movie, but if working on their own, it can make it a hard experience to endure. This is what happened in Middleground,...

Avengers Grimm: Time Wars image — Avengers Grimm: Time Wars
Read More

The Asylum Studios garnered a reputation early on for producing low budget knock-off titles like Transmorphers and Geo-Disaster. These mockbusters, or...

Strangers On The Earth image — Strangers On The Earth
Read More

The Camino de Santiago, also known as the Way of Saint James, is a network of pilgrimage paths that lead to Northern Spain and the shrine of Saint James...

The Dark image — The Dark
Read More

The Dark is a horror movie that tries something unusual, and in a lot of ways, commendable: it engenders a surprising amount of empathy for its monster and...

Natural Selection image — Natural Selection
Read More

In a time following the recent tragedy at Parkland, amidst a loud push for gun reform in the U.S., no film is more heavy-hitting than one which takes an...

Regionrat image — Regionrat
Read More

Writer-director Javier Reyna’s Regionrat, based on Richard Laskowski’s novel of the same name, is set in 1995. Ray (Connor Williams) has been living in...

« Previous 1 … 1,142 1,143 1,144 1,145 1,146 … 1,227 Next »