Since the debut of Taken in 2008, action films centering on parents reducing their kidnapped children have become so common that they formed something of their own subgenre. Taken proved that audience...
Some films don’t just revisit history — they drag you right into the heat of it. Trace Pope’s Silence = Death is one of those shorts, a tense and deeply felt dramatization of a moment when a...
Shooting The Western With Dean Semler. By Jonah Rice. Among the more decorated figures his craft has to offer, Australian cinematographer Dean Semler debuted in the 1970s with a film called Moving On ...
Some short films announce their premise so boldly you can’t help but lean in. Lay Lefty Down, written and directed by Traven Rice, does exactly that — a surprise funeral for a woman’s left breast. It’...
Sound Of Falling – Review. By Oscar Aitchison. A haunting, overly ambitious testimony to the lingering trauma suffered by women over generations and a mood piece wholly of its own. With only he...
