Reviews

Big Bad

By Alan Ng | March 2026

NOW ON TUBI! In co-writer/director Opie Cooper’s Big Bad, a small-town legend about a haunted jailhouse begins to feel less like folklore…

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NOW ON TUBI! In co-writer/director Opie Cooper's Big Bad, a small-town legend about a haunted jailhouse begins to feel less like folklore and more like an...

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In writer/director Juliana Rodriguez's Night of 5, five former high school friends reunite years after graduation to commemorate the death of their...

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We are far enough removed from World War II that the line between legend and historical fact has blurred profoundly. Amongst the details lost to legend is...

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Writer-director Traven Rice's Lay Lefty Down follows a woman forced into a surprise funeral that turns a deeply personal moment into a public event. As the...

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Writer/director/actor Matt Nagin channels Woody Allen's New York Stories entry, Oedipus Wrecks, with Sorry Mom, a tight, tragic, testy tale about the bonds...

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Matthew Warner blows the competition out of the water. How? Because the writer and director is a high-performance, CGI-animated engine of creativity. In...

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SANTA BARBARA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2026 REVIEW! Steal This Story, Please! is a masterful documentary, written and directed by Carl Deal and Tia...

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SLAMDANCE FILM FESTIVAL 2026 REVIEW! Co-director/writer Xinhao "Violet" Lu and co-director Mufeng Han's short film After That follows Xinhao (Jim Lau), an...

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SLAMDANCE FILM FESTIVAL 2026 REVIEW! You will shimmer and shake, like you're riding the snake while being wowed by the dynamite animated short A Flame The...

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SANTA BARBARA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2026 REVIEW! Sunshine Express, from Iranian writer/director Amirali Navaee, is a magnificently weird and...

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