Two Sundance 2024 documentaries DIG XX and AND SO IT BEGINS

DIG XX  (2004/2024) Twenty years on director Ondi Timoner reedits DIG! about the collision of the Dandy Warhols and the Brian Joneston Ma...

Read More

SLIDE (2023) Slamdance 2024

The latest film from Bill Plympton feels more like an animated comic book then a movie. It's the story of a cowboy who ends up in a lo...

Read More

The Peasants (2023) opens today

Based on a novel by Władysław Reymont' THE PEASANTS is the story of a group of people in rural Poland at the turn of the 20th century....

Read More

Sirocco and the Kingdom of the Winds (2023) Animation First 2024

Two girls are sent to stay with an aunt who is a writer of fantastic tales.  While the aunt sleeps the girls end up meeting one of the cha...

Read More

Sacred Cave (2023) plays Animation First 2024 Saturday

In an African kingdom the king is dying and believed to have been poisoned. In order to save him they ask an outcast to make an antidote. ...

Read More

Liz Whittemore on Suitable Flesh which hits Shudder tomorrow

H.P. Lovecraft‘s story “The Thing on the Doorstep” serves as inspiration for Joe Lynch‘s Tribeca 2023 Midnight film SUITABLE FLESH. Heathe...

Read More

SAY HI AFTER YOU DIE (2024) Sundance 2024

Two young ladies are sitting talking about life and death. One says that when she dies she wants to come back as a Port a Potty. Soon afte...

Read More

SHELL COVERED OX (2024) Sundance 2024

As a teenage girl prepares to perform in her school concert  she has to worry about possibly turning into an ox like many of her friends. ...

Read More

PETRO (2024) Slamdance 2024

Gustavo Petro, a former M-19 member, decides to run for President of Columbia. This is a good look at a man who has been struggling for de...

Read More

MAMBAR PIERRETTE by Rosine Mbakam coming to ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES January 26th

When I started to watch MAMBAR PIERRETTE I wasn’t certain if the film was a documentary or a narrative. I had just moved from one film on ...

Read More

Invisible Nation (2023) closes Slamdance 2024 January 25

INVISIBLE NATION is a vital must see film. The film is a look at the thorny situation the island nation of Taiwan is in.  Stuck in the une...

Read More

American Star (2024) opens Friday

The film follows a hit man named Wilson. Sent to Fuerteventura to kill a certain man, his plans are put on hold when the target doesn...

Read More

The Four Week Feedback Rule

What is the "Four Week Rule"? The Four Week Rule is the rule at Escape Studios that students should not wait for more than four w...

Read More

SHADOW (2024) Slamdance 2024

Moody black and white horror film needs to be seen in the dark with no distracting lights. This is a gloriously creepy horror film about a...

Read More

TERRA MATER (2024) (Mother Land) Sundance 2024

Kantarama Gahigiri​'s  experimental political art film is a visually stunning film set in a garbage dump.  A plea to stop waste and t...

Read More

Hit Man (2023) Sundance 2023

This is a repost of my New York FIlm Festival review from last year HIT MAN is the (kind of true) story of Gary Johnson who was a college...

Read More

This Is a Story Without a Plan (2023) Slamdance 2024

This is a short animated film that is abosultely trippy. I would love to say something about the plot but as the title infers it’s kind of...

Read More

DUMPSTER ARCHEOLOGY (2024) Slamdance 2024

Portrait of Lew Blink an artist and dumpster archaeologist who dumpster dives to see what he can discover about people's lives. Intrig...

Read More

Liz Whittemore on SUJO at Sundance 2024

Liz Whittemore from Reel News Daily checks in with a look at SUJO at Sundance Ominous, heartbreaking, and beautifully shot, the Sundance...

Read More

Love And Work (2024) Slamdance 2024

Fox and Diane live in a world where it is illegal to have a job. They meet on a job making shoes and become friends and perhaps more. Seve...

Read More