drama

Mermaid’s Lament

By Bobby LePire | June 2023

DANCES WITH FILM 2023 REVIEW! Writer-director G.B. Hajim’s sophomore feature film is the fantasy-drama Mermaid’s Lament. Dayva Summer Escobar stars as Oee,…

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DANCES WITH FILM 2023 REVIEW! Writer-director G.B. Hajim's sophomore feature film is the fantasy-drama Mermaid's Lament. Dayva Summer Escobar stars as Oee,...

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PALM SPRINGS SHORTFEST 2023 REVIEW! We've seen it before: an angry white host on a political talk show is shown hyperbolically mourning the apocalyptic...

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PALM SPRINGS SHORTFEST 2023 REVIEW! Even a mermaid needs respect in writer-director Madi Stine's short film, Out of Water. It's little Camille's (Anabelle...

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PALM SPRINGS SHORTFEST 2023 REVIEW! Director Sean Wang's documentary short, Nai Nai & Wài Pó (Grandma & Grandma), is personal because it's...

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Drug addiction has taken so many lives and resulted in several families' separation. Directed by Stephen Wallace Pruitt, who co-writes the script with his...

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From time to time, a film comes along whose intentions are so earnest it becomes difficult to criticize its faults. Alice Winocour's Revoir...

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