White Women, Beware

Slamdance 2023 Film Festival  - Wendy McColm isn't exactly an unknown name. She's appeared on Community and How I Met Your Mother, and she has several shorts and a feature under her belt. Her second film, Fuzzy Head, is a hauntingly beautiful and surreal exploration of childhood trauma, a film that dabbles with experimentation without [...]

Slamdance 2023 Film Festival - Don't be surprised if you've never heard of the Black abstract artist and sculptor Peter Bradley. For decades, he was unable to get a gallery show after some success in the 1970s in New York City. However, now in his 80s, Bradley is having quite a second act, landing solo [...]

Slamdance 2023 Film Festival  - I'll say this up front. A Perfect Day for Caribou won't be for everyone. It's opening soliloquy by one of the two male leads is long and prosaic, like something out of a Thomas Wolfe novel. The film centers itself around the dialogue between father and son, as they lament [...]

Slamdance 2023 Film Festival - One of the characters in The Underbug says, "Man killed man and created ghosts." That quote summarizes what's at play in a haunted house movie that's about much more than old fashioned spooks. The lean feature explores India's sectarian violence between Hindu and Muslim factions through the conflict between two [...]

A hauntingly beautiful horror-mystery -- SLAMDANCE

Slamdance 2023 Film Festival - Centering an entire feature film on a budding incel and white supremacist could really turn off a general audience. However, that's not the case with director Remy van Heugten's nuanced character study Mascot. The film focuses on the perspective of a young man whose world falls apart, especially his domestic [...]