Category: Film/TV Reviews

FISHTANK Film Review

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Director Wendi Tang’s FISHTANK: Winner of the 8th Tribeca x Chanel Through Her Lens Program. Winner of the 2022 Film Pipeline Short Script Competition. Audiences should be prepared for a surreal drama combining traditional narrative with experimental elements to challenge audiences’ understanding of the norms ingrained in society and expected of them.

 
I think I’ve pretty much deciphered the surreal and the enigmatic for a review article that doesn’t spoil nor despoil the cinematic surprises in Director Tang’s deftly made flick. However, FISHTANK also required a different approach to reviewing it – audiences may have to  keep eyes and ears more open more than usual.
– Reviewer Gregg W. Morris

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ANUJA Film Review & Article – Part 1 of 2

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Director Adam J. Graves – “I wanted to capture that wondrous combination of magic and emotion, of innocence and mischief, which is part of childhood itself — these are kids after all, not statistics. Though every film is collaborative, this one was much more so than most. Were it not for the talent and support of the children of the Salaam Baalak Trust (especially our brilliant star, Sajda Pathan), we never could have brought this important story to the screen.” – Review-Article by Gregg W. Morris

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Director Sabrina Van Tassel’s Bitter-Sweet, Melancholic Tour de Force Nearly Blew This Reviewer Out of His Seat

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Woven in the thick, ethnographic fabric of Van Tassel’s poignant documentary narrative – in her pursuit of truth-the-whole-truth-&-nothing-but-the-truth – are sketches, vignettes, anecdotes, stories, customs, traditions, practices, sociopolitical analysis, and histories (regional and national).  The result is an extraordinary story that absolutely has to be told and re-told, seen and re-seen, echoed and reechoed: The genocide is real and so are efforts to end it once and for all.
– Article-Review by Gregg W. Morris

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World Premier of MADE IN ETHIOPIA – Truly Compelling, Will Have Some Audience Members Mesmerized …

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MADE IN ETHOPIA was filmed over four years and this reviewer was amazed at the considerable access the filmmakers had with interviewees and their families and the community as a whole. That kind of access occurs because of the incredible filmmaking finesses of filmmakers for dealing with people to tell incredible stories. – Review by Gregg W. Morris

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BLACK ICE Film Review 2024

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Black Ice, the award-winning UNINTERRUPTED documentary that exposes a history of racism in hockey through the untold stories of Black hockey players, both past and present, in a predominantly white sport. The film explores the deep BIPOC roots of the game, dating back to 1865 and the Colored Hockey League of the Maritimes (CHL), the first all-pro league, which not only introduced the slapshot but shaped the game of hockey we know today. – Review by Shannon McGhee

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PURE O Film Review: A Sublimely Made Hyperrealistic Film Directed & Written by Dillon Tucker

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“PURE O is about mental health, and yet so much more. It tackles a litany of universal issues we all face – grief, coming-of-age, loss, addiction, intrapersonal growth, redemption and the power of social connection.,” writes Director Dillon Tucker about his semi-auto biographical memoir.

“I hope the audience walks away feeling closer to others and also themselves OCD thoughts are just normal thoughts that get misinterpreted. There is an opportunity with this film to show the world what OCD really looks like. To show those who suffer that receiving an OCD diagnosis doesn’t mean your life is over. And to show everyone else that we all need the help of other people.” Article and Review by Gregg W. Morris.

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Part 2: Review, Q&A
Director Hadley Austin’s Transcendent, Transfixing DEMON MINERAL – Final Part

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“Well, I do think that this film is about an issue that of course, will outlast us, right? We are just links in a long chain of films, literally. There are other films that are about this issue that are in my film. I gave them homage and put clips in our film to show that we weren’t the first. We will not be the last. This is a forever problem in some ways,” says Director Hadley Austin in here interview with WORD Editor-Reviewer Gregg W. Morris.

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DREAM CREEP Film Short Review (2024): Part 1 – As Ghoulishly Creepy As All Git Out

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Suzie (played by Sidney Jayne Hunt) is trying to communicate with her hubby, David (played by Ian Edlund). Though she is sleeping in bed right next to him she is addressing him from inside a dream or nightmare, begging David to stick a meat thermometer in her ear to help her escape from something monstrous that is chasing her. Guess what David does? – Review 1 and 2 by Gregg W. Morris – Review 2, the Director Interiview is in the works.

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