Bolt From The Blue
| C | Austin Film Festival 2023 | During their brief introduction, the writer/director and the producer told us this was a family friendly movie. Unfortunately that seems to mean…
Jonah
| C | Austin Film Festival 2023 | This was the first feature by this director. And he pulled everything together to make a full movie with good production values.…
The Book Of Solutions
| C+ | Fantastic Fest 2023 | I'm always wary of stories that require context. I'd read all the fest's films' descriptions two weeks ago, so by the time I…
The Altman Method
| C | Fantastic Fest 2023 | Hmm... Fantastic Fest's description called this a "black comedy," but I would label it a "grey drama." They also said it was "nuanced,"…
Stopmotion
| C | Fantastic Fest 2023 | This movie was fine, but not my style. Yeah, a bunch of weird stuff happened, I’m not completely sure why. Some interesting visuals.…
The Fantastic Golem Affairs
| C | Fantastic Fest 2023 | As promised by the trailer, an absurd comedy. And it made me laugh out loud a couple of times. But many of those…
Kennedy
| C | Fantastic Fest 2023 | A serviceable crime thriller. Definitely did not spoon feed you everything up front, but wrapped everything up in the end. Fairly stylish (though…
Between Before
| C | Other Worlds 2022 | A disappointing ending to the festival. I just couldn’t buy into everything that was going on. I was fine with the science fiction…
Echelon
| C | Other Worlds 2022 | Kudos to this pair who wrote, directed, started in, ran cameras for, did post-production of—pretty much everything for this movie—during COVID. And they…
Polaris
| C | Other Worlds 2022 | Beautifully filmed. Intriguing approach to dialog (all made up language for this post-apocalyptic future). Nice use of the polar bear. And another kid…