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Short-Film Reviews: “While Mortals Sleep,” “Huella,” and “Kitchen Sink” (Sundance Film Festival)

While Mortals Sleep  In writer/director Alex Fofonoff’s brilliant short While Mortals Sleep, Susan (Carie Kawa) is a cold case novelist who is going through a difficult patch so bad that she is rather reluctantly getting away from it all for a...

Movie Review: “Something in the Dirt,” “You Won’t Be Alone,” and “Emily the Criminal” (Sundance Film Festival)

Something in the Dirt  The filmmaking duo of Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead consistently turn out compelling, thought-provoking genre films, and their fifth and latest feature, Something in the Dirt, may be their best yet. The duo proved in...

Blu-ray Review: Shock (1977)

Dora Baldini (Daria Nicolodi), her kiddo Marco (Beyond the Door's David Colin Jr.), and her new husband Bruno (we don't talk about Bruno no no... okay, we do, and he's played by Yor: the Hunter From the Future's Overlord himself, John Steiner) make...

Movie Review: “The Civil Dead” (Slamdance Film Festival)

If you are in the mood for something decidedly different, director Clay Tatum’s The Civil Dead delivers in spades. This offbeat horror-adjacent comedy gets dark and delivers an emotional gut-punch of a climax. The Civil Dead begins with quirky...