BUFF ‘25 Movie Review: “BEST WISHES TO ALL” means well, but…
Great ideas and frightening ideologies go unrealized, making the new film from Yûta Shimotsu a frustrating exercise.
PKD Festival ’25 Movie Review: Indie sci-fi/horror “THE PROTOS EXPERIMENT” has arresting results
[The filmmakers’] emphasis remains on mood and tension rather than tech gimmickry…their imagination is expressed in the way they elicit their strange and oppressive world on a very modest budget.
Movie Review: Slasher homage “HELL OF A SUMMER” falls short of being a camp classic
After more than four decades of seminal works and variations on the theme, there needed to be more invention applied to the material.
Movie Review: A superstore bloodbath goes viral in “WAKE UP”
It aptly interrogates and occasionally skewers (pun maybe intended) the current moment while delivering some very inventive kills and setpieces.
Movie Review: This mouse doesn’t roar in a slow “SCREAMBOAT”
The pace goes slack as the story spends way too much time with its generic characters going through generic paces.
