Don’t you think this is a little odd? Oklahoma-based director Mickey Reece has almost self-deprecatingly referred to his filmmaking style as “people talking in rooms”. Still, David Mamet once said that that’s all you really
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Start Your Year Right with an INDIAN ROAD TRIP
I’ve written extensively on what I consider to be an “Indigenous New Wave” sweeping Canadian cinema these past few years. Often featuring new and emerging voices, these pictures are a key part of reconciliation between
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Little Orphans shows a lot of Conflict – Review
I’ve covered marriage films before, and there’s always some crazy amount of preparation involved in weddings, both in movies and real life. Weddings are basically stress spots for me, and I’ve never even been married
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WFF: AN INTROVERT’S GUIDE TO HIGH SCHOOL
How can I get confidence if I keep being rejected? For all our technological and social advancements, we humans retain much of our primal DNA, including the need for acceptance by a tribe. While countless
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Still The Water Floods you with Feelings – WFF Review
Sometimes when you do something really stupid that it’s infamous, no amount of words or actions can make up for what you’ve done. I’ve done stupid things before in the past, and that’s why I
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WFF: UNDERGROUND Launches with a Bang and Lands with a Thud
The 2006 Wolfgang Petersen disaster flick Poseidon (a remake of the 1972 Poseidon Adventure) was harshly criticized upon its release for many things, but mostly for the rushed first act where the cast of characters
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