Short films have become popular because they can provide a cost-effective learning experience for filmmakers and because of increasing audience diversity – though SEVAP/MITZVAH has the look and feel of a feature. That train of thought has this writer-reviewer imagining Director/Writer Sabina Varjraca’s 17-minute virtuoso SEVAP/MITZVAH is in the works to become a SEVAP/MITZVAH feature film. – Review by Gregg W. Morris
Category: Film/TV Reviews
2023 Film Review: UNCONDITIONAL – Part 1
A Riveting Story Told in a Remarkable Kaleidoscopic Documentary Style by Director Richard Lui About How Mental Illness Effects American Families
Nearly 58 million Americans, according to the National Institute of Mental Health, must deal with a mental health challenge each year. About 53 million Americans, according to the AARP, are family caregivers, who face their own emotional distress in caring for loved ones. This is a story about an issue facing 100 million people. Article by Gregg W. Morris.
2023 Film Review: UNCONDITIONAL – Q&A, Part II
A Riveting Story Told in a Remarkable Kaleidoscopic Documentary Style by Director Richard Lui About the Effects of Mental Health Issues on American Families Q&A How did this film come about? How did the idea originate? What inspired you? Nine…
MOON GARDEN Film Review 2023 – Part 2
Bios – Principal Crew Writer-Director-Editor-Animator-Sound Designer, Ryan Stevens Harris: An award-winning filmmaker, editor, and exhibited artist. Studied filmmaking in London and at the USC School of Cinematic Arts in Los Angeles, where he co-founded Fire Trial Films, a boutique production…
MOON GARDEN Is Crackerjack Moviemaking – Makes the Boogie Man Look Like a Cry Baby …
… But Scaring the Bejesus Out of Audiences Wasn’t the Primary Goal Writer-Director Ryan Stevens Harris: “MOON GARDEN was always meant to feel like a film out of its time. As if an old dusty film reel were found in…
Q & A With Director Paul Raschid About His Humdinger of an Interactive Film – Part 1
An interactive film is a video game or other interactive media with characteristics of a cinematic film. In the video game industry, the term refers to a movie game, a video game that presents its gameplay in a cinematic scripted…
Q & A With Director Paul Raschid About His Humdinger of an Interactive Film – Part 2
Since 2019, I have been specializing in interactive films that are also distributed on gaming platforms as FMV (Full Motion Video) games. Following the mainstream success of Netflix’s interactive film ‘Bandersnatch’ in 2018, I believe this format has the potential…
A Riveting, Sweeping Cinematic Saga: SWEETWATER by Writer-Director Martin Guigui
SWEETWATER doesn’t blink, doesn’t shy away, mostly certainly doesn’t shrug as it mesmerizes and resonates and, again, is sweeping in scope in its way of telling the bitter-sweet epic saga of Nat “Sweetwater” Clifton. The elements that make a movie a 5-star movie soar most certainly beyond imagination in this film: Casting – wisely selected. Plot and subplots – astutely rendered. Settings & themes & subthemes – marvelously done. Review by Gregg W. Morris
SUMMONING SYLVIA LGBTQ Horror Comedy Film Review – Warning! Are You Ready to Die Laughing? 🤣
The Horror Collective has released its North American theatrical and TVOD release of a daredevil LGBTQ horror comedy smothered in layers of cinematic derring-do. Written and directed with considerable aplomb by Wesley Taylor (Smash, The Spongebob Musical, it’s soon to recur on Hulu’s “Only Murders in the Building”) and Alex Wyse (Marvel’s IRON FISH, soon to join Broadway’s Good Night, Oscar). It hit theaters nationwide March 31, 2023 and is scheduled for Cable VOD and Digital HD, four days from now: April 7, 2023.
SCRAP Film Review – A Humdinger of a Movie
SCRAP is intensely dramatic and infused with an uniquely comedic swagger throughout the film. I don’t care what other reviewers may be saying: SCRAP also has a surrealistic feel throughout the 115 minutes of running time and it’s truly rhapsodic.…