Opening Night Feature Peas And Carrots WORLD Premiere I USA, 2024, 96 min. DIRECTOR: Evan Oppenheimer Joey Wethersby is a typical 16-year-old New York girl — if your typical New Yorker had parents who were in a one-hit wonder band…
Cited by Moviemaker Magazine as one of the 2024 “Coolest Film Festivals” in the world, Dances With Films’ rapid growth in New York City along with its current place as L.A.’s top film festival for platforming truly independent filmmaking, makes DWF the only film festival organization offering “discovery” titles in major film festival events in both of those cities.
Showcasing brand new work by filmmakers on both coasts, most of which have yet to be seen or picked up for distribution has become a hallmark for Dances With Films’ Founders and Directors Leslee Scallon and Michael Trent. – Article by Gregg W. Morris
This film is about how a white family begins to fall apart after it adopts children of Romani descent from an orphanage. It’s a social drama set in Slovakia. The main character, Ingrid, a middle-aged woman, tries to escape a difficult financial situation by becoming a professional parent to a Romani girl.
Acting? 4 stars over all. Special Effects? 4 stars, sometimes 4.5. Fight scenes (a lot of those)? As good as any in recent memory. Production values? Audiences will get their money’s worth. – By Gregg W. Morris
the WORD: Can you tell me a little bit about the story (TADAMAIMA)? Director Robin Takao D’Oench: Of course. So that came about … like I mentioned before, my grandparents were incarcerated in the Japanese American internment camps. And coming…
His tour de force has been selected for consideration to compete in the 2024 Oscars. It’s a 12-minute short about incarcerated prison inmates who serve as firefighters in a special incarceration program and the film has garnered significant critical acclaim,…
Regardless of whatever first-responder, five-star action-adventure films, video and TV shows that audiences may have seen on big and small screens, FIRELINE will have them on the edge of their seats. Keep this in mind: FIRELINE is just 12 minutes long. – Reviews & Articles by Gregg W. Morris, Editor, Writer the WORD
Fifty-sixty minutes and a few seconds into CRAWFOOT, the cinematic panache and derring-do of Director Micheal Day and Writer April Wolfe stunned this reviewer-writer who thought that for the first for 56-minutes and a few seconds that he was watching…
Megan Fox, left, as an android, Alice, created by a large corporation to take care of any family and home. Looking for help with the housework. Nick purchases an Alice android after his wife becomes near fatally sick.
Subsequently in the home of Nick and his wife, Alice – eerily similar to Skynet in THE TERMINATOR (1984) – becomes self-aware and wants everything her new family has, and she especially wants Nick – carnally. And she’s ready to break bones and slash flesh to get it. This is a must-see movie that many will want to see more than once. – Review by Gregg W. Morris.
Caveat Lector, Audiences Beware. This film is a cosmic, hyperbolic extravaganza with 92-minutes of unrelenting, existential pounding on one’s mind, body and soul. Article-Review by Gregg W. Morris, the WORD.