Short Films Articles

A GRAND MOCKERY (Australia, 2025) Cowriters/codirectors Adam C. Briggs and Sam Dixon brought my university-days memories of reading literary works such as Louis-Ferdinand Céline’s Death on the Installment Plan and George Orwell’s Down and Out In...

Florida’s Popcorn Frights is famous for presenting the finest fear-fare cinema to Florida every summer, and this year's offerings are no exception — and this is only the first wave announcement! The festival runs from August 7–17, and if you can’t...

The 2025 Tribeca Festival, presented by OKX, has once again scheduled an amazing array of documentary, narrative, and animated features and short films, including several horror and horror-adjacent works. I’m covering the fest, scheduled to run...

Official synopsis: While living in isolation, Mona (Mona Hala) and her young son Mickey (Shams Mohamed) await the birth of a new baby while still carrying the weight of the boy’s grandma’s recent death. When her son begins listening to her pregnant...