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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,...

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...

“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...

“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...

Barry (Gary Green), an abusive drug-addict, is on yet another bender after an argument with his wife. After shooting up, he walks home down fog covered streets that have been overtaken by a haunting red hue,...