HOLLYSHORTS FILM FESTIVAL 2023 REVIEW! During adolescence, teens are in a desperate search for their identity. Writer-director Makez Rikweda’s horror short, Fat Girl, shows just how far one teen will go to find it. Lexi (Stella Stevens) is an awkward high…
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When it comes to romantic comedies, the genre has a tendency to follow a familiar formula: two unlikely individuals are thrown together by chance, their initial interactions are marked by awkwardness and misunderstanding, and eventually, they find their way to…
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One of the participants in co-writers and co-directors Sadhvi Anubhuti and Sadhvi Siddhali Shree’s For the Animals talks about a stray dog. “He (the dog) has a story to tell, and unfortunately, it is in a language that we do not understand.”…
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Director Stewart Thorndike’s Bad Things promised an intriguing blend of psychological suspense and chilling horror. The story is innocently about a weekend retreat among friends that turns into a gruesome ordeal. Expectations were high for a film that could effectively…
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CINEQUEST FILM FESTIVAL 2023 REVIEW! The freshest of takes. I’m going to say that Diana Zuros’ feature film, Since August, isn’t the most original story from a plot standpoint, but it is about as fresh of a take on trauma,…
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CINEQUEST FILM FESTIVAL 2023 REVIEW! Writer-director-actor-producer Brian Silverman brings another low-budget/high-quality indie to the world with Two Lives in Pittsburgh. This feature is the story of Pittsburgh handyman Bernie Evers (Silverman). His mother, Carla (Annie O’Donnell), is dying, and he…
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Thanks to IMAX for providing us with free tickets to go and watch Blue Beetle this week so we can bring you our honest thoughts on this new DC movie within this Blue Beetle IMAX review. Jaime Reyes suddenly finds…
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CINEQUEST FILM FESTIVAL 2023 REVIEW! In the early 2000s, I was entering my teenage years and was the prime demographic for the boom of quirky teen dramedies that flooded the indie movie rental market at that time. Before the streaming…
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HOLLYSHORTS FILM FESTIVAL 2023 REVIEW! Kameishia Wooten’s short film, Choices, is an inspired response to the recent Dobbs decision overturning Roe v. Wade. Choices features three L.A. high school friends. Aisha (Marajanai) is delivering a home pregnancy test for her best friend,…
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Thank you FANdation, We are back with another recap of our favorite “I don’t even know who’s really in charge anymore” show Foundation Season 2 Episode 6. I’m your host, Anthony, and I will do my best to be your guide…
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Summary Puppy Love falls short in its execution despite having a winning premise, lacking in both romance and comedy. Grant Gustin shines in his role, offering an engaging performance, but Lucy Hale's character falls into a familiar archetype. The writing…
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Near the beginning of the doomed journey into space that is The Moon, a slog of a science fiction film from writer-director Kim Yong-hwa, it is remarked in a hallway conversation back on Earth at an operations station that “the…
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