Fantasy Life A mental health pseudo-romcom? Yes. Filmmaker Matthew Shear’s Fantasy Life follows Sam, an anxiety-ridden law-school dropout who becomes a babysitter for his psychiatrist’s granddaughters and falls for their mother. Struggling to keep his life together through panic attacks, therapy sessions, and OCD tendencies, Sam finds himself thrown to the wolves in a wealthy Manhattan household of three young Read More →
DEAD GIVEAWAY Ian Kimble brings a laugh-out-loud murder mystery, DEAD GIVEAWAY, to the Philadelphia Film Festival. After waking up hungry, with a hangover and a murdered stranger in her bed, Jill’s (Ruby Modine) day spirals into chaos as she navigates a tied-up man in her closet, an unconscious roommate, and a knife to her best friend’s neck. The goal? To Read More →
LONDON CALLING Allan Ungar brings audiences a fun genre mashup in LONDON CALLING. After fleeing the UK from a job gone wrong, nearsighted hitman Tommy ends up working for a fiery LA crime boss. Unexpectedly tasked with mentoring his boss’s LARP-loving teenage son, Tommy’s past catches up with him. Rick Hoffman is a master at searing delivery. His performance as Read More →
DON’T TELL LARRY After lying to her new eccentric coworker Larry about a company party, an ambitious corporate flunky must deal with the deadly consequences. Dot-Marie Jones and Ed Begley Jr. serve up pro performances that most certainly elevate DON’T TELL LARRY. Kiel Kennedy has a genuine Will Ferrell energy. His portrayal of Larry is cringe, uncomfortable, and entirely unhinged. Read More →
OUT FOR DELIVERY Joanna finds out that chemo is no longer working. Her doctor offers her a Death With Dignity option. They can mail her medication to end her life, but she must make arrangements for her body to be picked up. When the package gets delayed, all her plans go haywire. Death and comedy don’t usually go hand-in-hand, but Read More →
THE STRESS IS KILLING ME Following their 20th college reunion, a group of old friends agrees to stay in a rental together for a week-long getaway rather than immediately part ways. During dinner, everyone around the table says what they’d be if they could choose another career path. They agree to take the week and live out that dream in Read More →
LOCKJAW Filmmaker Sabrina Greco brings her new comedy, LOCKJAW, to Slamdance 2025. Rayna simply wants a nice night out with her friends for the first time since her drunk driving accident six weeks ago, but her wired-shut jaw brings with it a slew of complications. Rayna’s night out begins at a party, moves to a magic show, and ends in Read More →
ME, MYSELF, & THE VOID Tim Hautekiet‘s Me, Myself, & the Void follows comedian Jack after one bad night on stage morphs into an out-of-body experience when he wakes up in a rudimentary version of his apartment, looking over his body on the bathroom floor, with no idea what’s going on. Alongside the manifested versions of his best friend and Read More →
The Shallow Tale of a Writer Who Decided to Write about a Serial Killer World Premiere – Spotlight Narrative Section A hapless writer gets pulled into a scheme involving his wife, his impending divorce, and a serial killer yearning to be the subject of his next book. Tolga Karaçelik‘s first English-language film, The Shallow Tale of a Writer Who Decided Read More →
LAUGH PROUD: Nine diverse LGBTQiA+ comics each perform a short set connected by a hostess with the mostest in an orgiastic one-night stand starring fresh comics to veteran comic Jason Stuart and the world’s first intersex comic, Seven “7G” Graham. LAUGH PROUD is the first LGBTQiA+ stand-up comedy feature film of its kind. The effervescent joy of being in the Read More →
MAKE ME A PIZZA Order up on filmmaker Talia Shea Levin‘s bold Midnight short MAKE ME A PIZZA. Made to look like a cliché 80s porno, this short had me bursting with laughter a minute in. The brilliant, over-the-top performances, side-splitting dialogue, and familiar-sounding score deliver. This short is part comedy, part fetish video, and all jaw-dropping weirdness. SXSW 2024 Read More →
SUMMONING SYLVIA Written and directed by Wesley Taylor and Alex Wyse, the horror comedy SUMMONING SYLVIA is ridiculous and absolutely fabulous. Three friends kidnap their engaged bestie Larry for a bachelor weekend in a haunted house. The property’s history, and a witchy book of spells, call for a seance. Duh. The group summons the former owner and her son to Read More →
BLOOD RELATIVES After her mother’s death, Jane tracks down her elusive dad to avoid foster care. When Jane unearths the truth about her father’s past, she demands a relationship, leading the estranged father-daughter team to take a road trip like no other. Oh, also, he’s a vampire. A unique take on the monster genre combined with a family road trip Read More →
BROMATES Two best friends go through breakups and decide to move in together. Total opposites, Sid and Jonesie, make great buddies but not-so-great roomies. To help Sid move on from his ex, Jonesie revs up Sid’s confidence leading to a journey that’s the most random path to healing ever. BROMATES boasts a ton of laughs and cameos. Part road movie, Read More →
One of my favorite SXSW 22 films, DEADSTREAM is making its way to Shudder audiences on October 6th. Zero surprise the horror platform picked up the film. I know their audience will eat it up. Filmmaker couple Vanessa Winter & Joseph Winter gives up laughs and jump scares galore, taking advantage of internet narcissism. The duo’s work can next be seen in Read More →
COUPEZ! *Full disclosure, I have not seen Shinichiro Ueda‘s One Cut of The Dead (Fantasia 2018). This review is solely my take on COUPEZ!* An eccentric director who activated a curse in order to get the best film possible? Sounds more like an industry documentary than a horror comedy to me. Coupez! turns filmmaking on its head with a structure that keeps Read More →
FOUR SAMOSAS The first hour of Ravi Kapoor’s Four Samosas is a cheerful, gorgeous delight. The film follows 4 wayward teens across a few days in Artesia, California. Vinny (Venk Potula), an unmotivated amateur rapper going nowhere fast, is the de-facto leader and protagonist. When his ex-girlfriend, Rina, becomes engaged to his greatest rival (a game, but over the top Karan Soni), Vinny Read More →
DEADSTREAM After a public controversy left him disgraced and demonetized, a washed up internet personality tries to win back his followers by livestreaming himself spending one night alone in an abandoned haunted house. When he accidentally pisses off a vengeful spirit, his big comeback event becomes a real-time fight for his life (and social relevance) as he faces off with Read More →
BRIAN AND CHARLES After a particularly harsh winter Brian goes into a deep depression; completely isolated and with no one to talk to, Brian does what any sane person would do when faced with such a melancholic situation. He builds a robot. Brian is an eccentric inventor of creative, if not completely useless, things. After accidentally inventing a robot, he Read More →
Open Road Films and Foo Fighters announced today the release of the first official trailer for their new horror-comedy film STUDIO 666. The movie, which stars band members Dave Grohl, Taylor Hawkins, Nate Mendel, Pat Smear, Chris Shiflett, and Rami Jaffee, will be released in theaters nationwide on February 25, 2022. In STUDIO 666, the legendary rock band Foo Fighters Read More →
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