Reviews

Midsommar Since I’ve been on lock-down, I’ve been watching a variety of new (to me) movies that I wouldn’t normally watch. I watched Hereditary by Ari Aster on Amazon Prime and was very much impressed. So much so that I wanted to consume more of Aster’s work. Midsummar is also …

Hereditary is a slow burning horror film that uses drama and story to ratchet up the tension rather than jump scares and horror tropes.

  I found Mære on a Reddit forum for Filmmakers and I’m just blown away. It’s about the phenomenon known as Sleep Paralysis and how the people in the story go about revealing its effects. It’s a short film so I wont go into too much detail about the plot …

Complicated is another amazing film by the extremely talented Terrell Lamont and his production company gritHouse Films. It's short, sweet and powerful.

Mr Night Has a Day Off is an animated short about Mr. Night walking around the town changing all things to black until everything is dark as night.

An inexperienced young soldier on his first deployment and a seasoned Ranger medic fight to save a young mother and her unborn child on the Afghan battlefield.

A tourist wakes up tied to a chair in a basement. Things take a turn for the worst when he sees what's around him.

Indictment is a harrowing short about an amnesiac who wakes up in jail to an abusive officer, with no knowledge of how he got there or why.

Analogue is a suspenseful Sci-Fi short that explores themes of racial tension by echoing horrors of the past. This is a beautiful science fiction movie.

Flat 6b tells the story of Julia, a house sitter for the mysterious Agency Securities firm as she is offered a job watching over the Flat 6b.

Pregame focuses on a group of friends trying to bring in the New Years together. They try to make it happen but, in the end, nothing really goes their way.

A documentary that chronicles a local boxing gym in Haverhill, MA. For one year we see young kids learning what takes to establish themselves as amateur boxers with the owner Ray Hebert trying to instill the discipline they need.

Stuck is a comedy horror short about a man who wants to go home after a long day at work but something is keeping him there. Benoit Mannequin's Debut.

The Deja Vuers is a hilarious fantasy/comedy short about a man who experiences deja vu when he spots a woman sitting on a park bench.

The Procedure is a comedy short film by Calvin Reeder that is hard to explain. In four minutes, you're taken on an interesting kidnapping/torture ride?

The Happiest Place on Earth is about a daycare teacher's dreams of a home and family of her own being threatened by the loss of her husband's newspaper job.