Thoughts on Godzilla vs Kong (2021) (Spoilers)

I was a kid who grew up on Godzilla films, and salivated every time  one of the original ones hit TV or theaters. Any time they were on I ...
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God hits Ovid TV April 2

GOD is one of the great surprises of this film year. Appearing during the holy week between Passover and Easter on Ovid.tv, the film is a ...
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SPACE DOGS: TROPICAL ADVENTURE (2021) In Theaters April 2, on VOD April 6

  SPACE DOGS: TROPICAL ADVENTURE has Belka and Strelka recalled from space to deal with a weird whirlpool anomaly in the Atlantic. I real...
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Introducing "Alma", Our First MoCap Short

Meet "Alma" , the first fully motion capture CG short film created at Escape Studios.  Alma was directed by Rola Hafez, Francesc...
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Backyard Village (2020) plays at Santa Barbara’s Nordic Cinema Competition

Brynja doesn't want to go home. Her mother who abandoned her 35 years earlier has returned to Iceland. She then takes up residence in ...
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Night Shot (2020) Neighboring Scenes 2021

Carolina Moscoso's gut punch meditation on rape was assembled from a decades worth of film. It is not strictly speaking a film about t...
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Kiwi's Dream Wins Four Awards at BIAFF

Many congratulations to the makers of "Kiwi's Dream" , which has won four festival awards at the British International Amateu...
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Witness Infection (2020)

Two mafia families in witness protection  end up in the same town. As they try not to kill each other and survive the appearance of flesh ...
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Thoughts on Zack Snyder's Justice League and why any future films will probably won't work

  Zack Snyder's cut of JUSTICE LEAGUE has hit HBO MAX and the fans rejoice. (Though apparently there maybe more to come with a black ...
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Edoardo Sartori Shot Creator at The Third Floor

Edoardo Sartori Many congrations to Escape Studios student Edoardo Sartori who is now working part-time as a Shot Creator at one o...
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maɬni – towards the ocean, towards the shore (2020) Opens at the Metrograph April 2

When you see małni—towards the ocean, towards the shore do so in a darkened theater. You’ll want to do this so that there are no distracti...
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Nightcap 3/28/21 Superheroes on the big screen

  Over the last few weeks people have been either loving or hating the Snyder Cut of JUSTCE LEAGUE.  Some people love the seriousness and...
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makeSHIFT (2020)

  makeSHIFT is a look at advertising in the age of the internet. It is a look at how the need to keep people's eyes on the screen so ...
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Shiva Baby (2020) hits select theaters and VOD Friday

 Danielle meets her family to attend a post Shiva gathering. If having to deal with the prying eyes of family and friends wasn't bad e...
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Three by Midi Z: CITY OF JADE, RETURN TO BURMA, and 14 APPLES are playing at the Museum of the Moving Image

  CITY OF JADE Midi Z makes a film about his brother and his desire to go to the City of Jade, an unregulated and wide open jade mine th...
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Road to Mandalay (2017) plays at MOMI's Midi Z series

Midi Z's gorgeous to look at downbeat drama, is like his other films a punch in the face and the heart. The film follows two people ...
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The Place That Makes Us (2020) hits America Reframed March 30

  A look at the efforts to revitalize Youngstown Ohio which was devastated when the mills closed down leaving the town without a means of...
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Horton Foote: The Road to Home (2020) Oxford FIlm Festival 2021

  photo by Susan Johann Director Anne Rapp worked on Tender Mercies  in 1983 and Horton Foote, the writer made such an impressio...
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Composer Stuart Bramwell Scores at Escape

Stuart Bramwell  Stuart Bramwell is a musician and composer, currently studying at Berklee College of Music  for his Masters' ...
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Super Frenchie (2021)

Portrait of professional skier and BASE jumper Matthias Giraud. Giruad wants to mix the two loves his life. However an accident forces him...
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Ice Poison (2014) plays at MOMI as part of a 6 film retrospective

You can't work in a jade mine, they all use drugs. If you start using drugs what will become of us? - Father to his son. Slice of li...
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The Toll (2021)

A woman and her driver end up stuck in the woods after a wrong turn puts them into the territory of the Tollman. More slow building thrill...
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Afrofuturism: Blackness Revisualized Film Festival streams for free starting March 26

  Welcome to the Afrofuture. Beginning this Friday, March 26 at 10 p.m. ET., the Afrofuturism: Blackness Revisualized Film Festival will ...
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