KARMA CODE
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  Year Released: 2011 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 10 minutes |
Certain sequences just explode with visual power, and even the opening credits have a unique and wonderful aesthetic to them…
Posted on May 7, 2012 by Mark Bell
CELESTE
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Year Released: 2012 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 30 minutes |
The film has a unique flavor to it, with Celeste able to see and interpret other people’s auras, and it mostly floats in an almost dreamlike cloud but, while the film definitely shows Celeste embracing a more cheerful life devoid of her husband, there is a tragedy about the entire affair…
Posted on May 7, 2012 by Mark Bell
KIDS WITH GUNS
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  Year Released: 2012 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 9 minutes |
Overall, it’s the film’s ability to capture that devil-may-care attitude and energy that makes it work. There is a chaos to how these children behave, but for the most part it is an innocent chaos…
Posted on May 7, 2012 by Mark Bell
ENSAIO
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Year Released: 2012 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 25 minutes |
Beyond the dialogue being particularly dense, the film plays with the narrative a bit, showing and then re-showing certain scenes from different angles and perspectives to reveal something different…
Posted on May 7, 2012 by Mark Bell
HE WOULDN’T TURN ME LOOSE (DVD)
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Year Released: 2012 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 28 minutes |
The DVD’s subject matter is very disturbing, to put it mildly, yet Miss Mary details her ordeal with a focus and calmness that is remarkable…
Posted on May 6, 2012 by Phil Hall
DEEP DOWN
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  Year Released: 2012 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 57 minutes |
The excess of scenic shots often makes the film feel like a travelogue…
Posted on May 6, 2012 by Phil Hall
SID’S PARALYSIS
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Year Released: 2012 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 85 minutes |
I’m not saying a film can’t have some genre-bending fun, but there are ways to do it successfully and this one doesn’t quite get there…
Posted on May 5, 2012 by Mark Bell
SLASH-IN-THE-BOX
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  Year Released: 2011 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 5 minutes |
“Slash-In-The-Box” is the type of story you tell around a campfire. It’s quick, it’s scary and it has a nice fright of an ending…
Posted on May 5, 2012 by Mark Bell
CHAMELEON
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Year Released: 2012 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 6 minutes |
The more successful sci-fi shorts keep it simple, and key in on one small aspect of the larger story. It is in this way, simple and focused, that “Chameleon” succeeds…
Posted on May 5, 2012 by Mark Bell
SMALL POND
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  Year Released: 2011 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 77 minutes |
“Small Pond” is a character study and an ode to small towns, where people can easily disappear in the day-to-day grind as years go by. While Kirsten isn’t the most likeable of characters at first, she’s also not as inconsiderate as she seems…
Posted on May 4, 2012 by Mark Bell
QWERTY
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Year Released: 2012 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 90 minutes |
This is really just a fun, entertaining love story that slowly draws you in and holds you tight. Dana Pupkin and Eric Hailey are spectacular in the film, and addictively watchable throughout…
Posted on May 4, 2012 by Mark Bell
COLORS UNDER A CLOUD
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Year Released: 2011 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 16 minutes |
A film like this runs the risk of being too clever and therefore, as the main characters discuss, possibly losing the audience. Despite that risk, however, “Colors Under a Cloud” keeps the discussion of story, and a writer lost for words, insightful…
Posted on May 3, 2012 by Mark Bell
CARELESS
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Year Released: 2012 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 21 minutes |
First, the good: the actor who plays Katrina, Joette Waters, is absolutely outstanding. Her portrayal is both feeble and menacing at the same time, and her Katrina is like a malicious ghoul that haunts the apartment…
Posted on May 3, 2012 by Mark Bell
CORIOLANUS
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  Year Released: 2011 MPAA Rating: R Running Time: 122 minutes |
Even Shakespeare had his off days. Written toward the end of his career, “Coriolanus” is perhaps the closest the bard came to a flop…
Posted on May 2, 2012 by Rick Kisonak
THE RAVEN
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  Year Released: 2012 MPAA Rating: R Running Time: 111 minutes |
Among the other questions raised by this dreary costume trainwreck: What sort of a bet did the great Brendan Gleeson lose to get him within a mile of the movie? And who is the feebleminded filmmaker posing as “V for Vendetta” director James McTeigue?
Posted on May 2, 2012 by Rick Kisonak