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“Kerberos”, directed by and starring veteran actor Kely McClung, is a gritty tale of corruption and redemption. Kely plays Mike Finn, an ex-con trying to go the straight and narrow when he is forced back into the life he was trying to escape when his daughter gets kidnapped. From there the story gets [...]

“Body of Work” directed by Alex Bram is a short horror piece that is very reminiscent of episodes of the early 1990’s TV show “Tales From The Crypt”. From the opening titles to the parting shot, almost every part of this film feels like it was shot specifically for that late night TV audience. [...]

If you like your movies as a cross between The Twilight Zone and “Wax: The Discovery of Television Among the Bees”, then you might enjoy a little piece of sci-fi called “Hive Mind”. Ladd Ehlinger Jr. spins a yarn about a world that has been assimilated into a collective consciousness after ingesting the world’s [...]

“The Imaginarium of Dr. Panassus” is a vexing and perplexing film. It is most definitely imaginative. It’s most definitely Terry Gilliam; however, a lot of the positives that can be said about it end there as unfortunate as that is.
It is rare when simulacrum, in the form of real life events, can have a true [...]

Filmmaker Scott Storm made a movie called “Ten ‘Till Noon”. When it was completed he did what every filmmaker does and started to take his movie around the festival circuit with dreams of becoming the next Cinderella story. He applied to and get rejected from big fests like Sundance and Slamdance, and that [...]

Susie Salmon died when she was 14 years old at the hands of a neighbor. She would have noticed something different if she wasn’t like every other teenager—boy crazy. Unfortunately, she is a teenager. On her way home from school, she is brutally murdered. Her parents begin to get worried when she doesn’t come home. [...]

The main objective of a documentary is to inform and illuminate subject and bring it to a larger public’s attention. More often than not the subjects of a film’s investigation will be one that is greatly unknown. It is generally in learning new things and in examining difficult questions that the best documentaries are made.
“Killing [...]

A Golden Globe nominee for Best Foreign Language Film and not submitted for the Oscars “The Maid” is a title likely to slip through the cracks. This, however, would be sad as it is a film guided by the cool hand of second time feature director, Sebastián Silva.
The film begins with the camera staying in [...]

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In a world where most documentarians are out to expose corruption in the system, point out the unhealthiness of our modern lifestyles, or wage a personal war against a public figure, it is nice to see a filmmaker like Mary Mazzio who’s documentary “Ten9Eight” instead offers hope, shows that the American spirit [...]

Nick Twisp is the good kid who never does anything wrong: he gets good grades, he dresses respectably, and he’s a virgin. His parents are divorced and he lives with his mom who has terrible taste when it comes to men. The guys she’s with rips people off and then runs and hides like a [...]