Come Play stretches writer/director Jacob Chase’s 2017 short, Larry, into a relatively uninspired feature film monstrosity about parenting, bullying, and the dangers of technology. Although its title invites you to engage and implies there’s fun to be had, this drama heavy techno-horror has little to offer outside its half-baked message.
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Genre veteran Tyler Savage’s sophomore release, Blinders, recently made its North American Premiere at the Austin Film Festival. The increasingly creepy film follows a lonely transplant to the City of Angels who forms a dangerous friendship with a rideshare driver. With its stylish swagger and unforeseen twist, Blinders makes a solid entry into the stalker sub-genre.
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8 years after his debut, Antiviral, writer/director Brandon Cronenberg returns with an electrifying new sci-fi thriller that’s equal parts brutal and chic. With POSSESSOR, Cronenberg cooks up a mind-melting experience that invades the senses in the best possible ways, proving yet again that the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.
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Australian writer/director/producer Felicity Pickering makes her directorial debut with Toni Fitzgerald’s Cult Following. The film combines pop culture and cults into a zany, absurdist comedy about one woman’s journey to find her voice.
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Following their success with 2018’s Secret Child, producer Gordon Lewis, director Yewweng Ho, and cinematographer Darius Shu reteam for their latest short film, Mical. Based on the true story of Pat and Mike Jones, the film seeks to raise awareness and create change in the education system for children struggling with dyslexia.
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With Kajillionaire, writer/director Miranda July showcases her unique vision in ways that win big. Combining elements of crime, romance, drama, and comedy with an excellent cast, July creates an odd-ball coming-of-age film that’s surprisingly refreshing in its depth, oddity, and execution.
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Five long years after the last Charlie Kaufman film (and 12 even longer years since his last live-action effort), the celebrated screenwriter-turned-director is finally back with another cerebrally twisted tale of existential dread. Adapted from the Iain Reid novel of the same name, I’m Thinking of Ending Things takes viewers on a strange and squirmy journey full of psychological thrills that entangle time, memory, and experience into one bleak and nightmarish reality.
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Tom Of Your Life is the feature film directorial debut of writer/director Jeremy “Jer” Skylar, who also serves as actor, editor and composer (under his musical outlet The Blackstrap Molasses). A self-professed “fable,” Tom Of Your Life combines a fun premise with kooky comedy and a singular vision to create an interesting indie coming-of-age story about living in the now.
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After 29 long years, Bill & Ted are back, and they’ve returned in time to deliver a warm, uplifting dose of nostalgic medicine right when the world needs it most! Their zany final adventure adds some most excellent new components to the familiar to bring a fitting close to this bodacious series that the whole family can enjoy.
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Ladies & Gentlemen is a fish-out-of-water comedy that explores the creative struggle of staying true to one’s self or wavering toward the status quo. This short will have you squirming and laughing at its affably awkward antics.
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Director Brendan Walsh’s feature film debut, Centigrade, is here to provide some alleviation from the summer heat in more ways than one. Based on a true story about a married couple trapped in their car during a snowstorm, Centigrade combines claustrophobia and cold-temperatures into a survivalist chamber piece whose life-or-death battle gets its sense of unnerving because it could happen to anyone.
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Sputnik marks the feature film debut of Russian director Egor Abramenko, who’s primarily known for his work in commercials and music videos. The film is an expansion to Abramenko’s 2017 short film The Passenger, and it offers audiences a soviet-era slant to the familiar conventions of Space Horror, which is bolstered by strong lead performances, fun creature design, and atmospheric dread.
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From Leeds’ Oxygen Films and writer/director Gage Oxley comes A Series of Light, an Amazon Exclusive anthology of short films lovingly built around the concept of identity. Comprised of six shorts that follow new characters in each installment, Oxley unapologetically probes into the darknesses and shadows of identity within a modern era and examines its fragility, all while maintaining a firm grasp on the humanity that beats at each story’s center.
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Sports and politics collide in Red Penguins, the latest documentary from filmmaker Gabe Polsky, which tells the fascinating and unbelievably wild true story of capitalism and opportunism run amok in Moscow. Somewhat of a spiritual sequel to Polsky’s 2014 documentary Red Army, Red Penguins takes viewers on a brisk and bizarre journey, complete with gangsters, strippers, and live bears serving beer on a hockey rink.
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Originally scheduled to release in September of 2019, The Hunt experienced delay after delay due to a rash of mass shootings (in Dayton and El Paso), and its perceived targeting of red-state voters and depiction of "liberal elites". The film cleverly used the public outrage to its benefit in its marketing, but since its quiet COVID release to VOD back in March, it begs the question, was it really worth all that fuss?
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Palm Springs, a Hulu Original film, marks the debut of director Max Barbakow and screenwriter Andy Siara, who both prove they’ve got some strong chops and a clear vision. The film made a big splash when it premiered at Sundance in January, but has garnered even more acclaim since its release due to its brisk pace, comedic antics, and delightful riffs on the Groundhog Day formula.
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The debut documentary of Matteo Borgardt, You Never Had It: An Evening With Bukowski, presents audiences with rare, never-before-seen footage of the acclaimed writer and poet in conversation with Italian journalist Silvia Bizio (Borgardt’s mother) from his home in San Pedro. Transporting the viewer back to 1981, roughly a year and a half before the publication of Ham on Rye, the film resurrects Bukowski in all his glory for an intimate evening full of wisdom and surprises.
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Written, directed, and produced by Diego Andaluz during the ongoing quarantine lockdown with no budget, Dante: A Replication successfully blends sci-fi, horror, and thriller elements into a brisk three-minute head trip. Atmospheric and visceral, its never-ending loop serves as an apt metaphor for life in quarantine.
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Written and directed by Indian filmmaker Dhruva Harsh, Do I Exist: A Riddle seeks to combine René Descartes’ philosophy “Cogito, ergo sum” (“I think, therefore I am”) with Buddhism to explore the possibilities of life after death. Equal parts Christopher Nolan and Terrence Malick, the film questions the notion of reality by filtering its narrative through these philosophies, culminating in a thought-provoking and dreamlike meditation.
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His Hands, a modern arthouse film written and directed by Arron Blake and Darius Shu, is now available on Amazon Prime in UK, US, Canada, and Australia! Made on a budget of only £400 (roughly $457.18 US) with a skeleton crew, the film ambitiously shoots for the moon and strives to push the boundaries of cinema to greater heights with its hauntingly ambiguous narrative.
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