The short films at Chattanooga Film Festival this year were brilliant and took up much of my time. They boasted such an incredible variety that I truly believe there was something for everyone. I know “under the radar” may seem like a loaded term, but I tried to stay up to date on what was being discussed on the festival’s […]
Hello children, today’s lesson is “movie review”. As a parent of a toddler, I have seen my share of children’s television shows. From the classics to modern releases and everything in between, they have all graced my television. When I began working my way through the “WTF” (Watch These Films) block I was immediately hooked by two of the shorts, […]
“I thought we were here for a break” “I thought we were here to start over?” These lines between a grieving husband and wife midway through Harry Owen’s directorial debut, The Unsettling, perfectly encapsulates the feeling of attempting to restart your life after a tragedy. Abena (Zephani Idoko) and Kwame (Bambadjan Bamba) are at entirely different stages of the grieving […]
Opening with horror icon Tony Todd (Candyman) name-dropping the likes of Blacula, Tales from the Hood, The People Under the Stairs and a few other hood horror classics before introducing us to the story of the first black serial killer, the titular Bitch Ass, is certainly a way to root this title in the 1990s. Directed by Bill Posley (Cobra […]
Never has there ever been a holiday film quite like Eric Pennycoff’s The Leech, which pits the holy against the hellish for a thematically strong, rapid-fire descent into festive madness. The film opens with a crawl up the steps of an aging and nearly empty church where Father David (Graham Skipper of Sequence Break and Dementia: Part II putting in […]