Wild Indian – Sundance Film Festival 2021 Review Alysha Prasad January 31, 2021 Reviews Wild Indian is the feature debut from Indigenous writer-director Lyle Mitchell Corbine Jr., who tells the story of two Indigenous men, Makwa (Michael Greyeyes) and Ted-O (Chaske Spencer), and how their lives...
One for the Road – Sundance Film Festival 2021 Review Alysha Prasad January 30, 2021 Reviews "Tiny Dancer" by Elton John and other various classics play from the tapes of an old radio show as Aood (Ice Natara) and Boss (Tor Thanapob) take a road trip down memory lane, not all of their memories being...
Run – Nightstream Film Festival 2020 Review Alysha Prasad November 20, 2020 Reviews After director Aneesh Chaganty came out with his directorial debut, Searching, in 2018, anticipation was high for his next film. This year on the opening night of Nightstream Film Festival, Chaganty followed...
Second Spring – Review Alysha Prasad November 13, 2020 Reviews Second Spring, from director Andy Kelleher, chronicles the life of a woman named Kathy (Cathy Naden) after she gets diagnosed with Fronto Temporal Degeneration, which affects her behavior and ability to show...
AV: The Hunt – Nightstream Film Festival 2020 Review Alysha Prasad October 14, 2020 Reviews Emre Akay’s AV: The Hunt, set in present day Turkey, takes us on an intense journey of an unfaithful woman named Ayse (Billur Melis Koç), who is fighting for her life after she gets caught with her lover....
An Unquiet Grave – Nightstream Film Festival 2020 Review Alysha Prasad October 12, 2020 Reviews What would you do if you had the opportunity to bring back the ones you loved and lost? Premiering at this year’s Nightstream Film Festival is Terence Krey’s emotional thriller, An Unquiet Grave, a film...
Summerland – Review Alysha Prasad September 13, 2020 Reviews Directing duo Lankyboy present Summerland, a film about three friends, Bray (Chris Ball), Oliver (Rory J. Super) and Oliver’s girlfriend, Stacey (Maddie Phillips) who embark on an adventurous road trip to...
The Oak Room – Fantasia Festival 2020 Review Alysha Prasad September 3, 2020 Reviews Stories are worth a thousand words. Isn’t that how the saying goes? The incredibly haunting score from Steph Copeland opens The Oak Room, a thriller from director Cody Calahan. As a snowstorm rages outside,...
PVT Chat – Fantasia Festival 2020 Review Alysha Prasad August 31, 2020 Reviews Now more than ever, there exists so many different ways for us to socialise with other people all around the world. Especially relevant during recent times is the reliance on video calls to feel close to...
Clapboard Jungle – Fantasia Festival 2020 Review Alysha Prasad August 29, 2020 Reviews Justin McConnell’s documentary, Clapboard Jungle: Surviving the Independent Film Business, spans a five year period in McConnell’s life as an indie filmmaker. It not only follows his tumultuous journey...
Bleed With Me – Fantasia Festival 2020 Review Alysha Prasad August 27, 2020 Reviews Bleed With Me, from writer-director Amelia Moses, is a terrifying fever dream that makes you question everything you thought you knew, filled with beautiful imagery and a lot of blood. Timid and...
Kriya – Fantasia Film Festival 2020 Review Alysha Prasad August 26, 2020 Reviews “In Hindu custom, it is ritually prescribed that a son must perform his father’s last rites.” This sentence hangs on the screen, setting up for the rest of Sidharth Srinivasan’s Kriya, a film that...
The Five Rules of Success – Fantasia Festival 2020 Review Alysha Prasad August 25, 2020 Reviews “I want to lead an important life, I want to do it because I was born a human being.” This powerful line from The Five Rules of Success by writer-director Orson Oblowitz perfectly encompasses the point of...
Detention – Fantasia Festival 2020 Review Alysha Prasad August 25, 2020 Reviews “As long as someone’s alive, there is always hope.” During the Cold War in 1962, Taiwan was under martial law, where those who subverted the government by speaking out about freedom or reading banned...
Feels Good Man – Fantasia Festival 2020 Review Alysha Prasad August 23, 2020 Reviews By now, everyone has surely seen Pepe the Frog at least once, whether it be whilst scrolling innocently through the web or even stumbling upon it on the news or late night talk shows. What most people aren’t...