“The Hallow” High Flying Screamfest While “The Witch” Sinks Fast

I love a good scare and The Hallow did it for me setting a new scream level during my Sundance Egyptian Theatre at Midnight horror fix. It was the film’s first weekend Sunday night premiere and the eWaitlist had me at number 84 followed by a postscript of 24 waitlisters dropping out in the past ten minutes. Goody. Gives me a chance at seeing this Irish-based fairy tales turned into hordes of scary monsters from the hallowed grounds in the...

SLAMDANCE Winner– Across the Sea

ACROSS THE SEA (Deniz Seviyesi), a Turkish story of life, loving and living was a hands down audience favorite winning the Slamdance 2015 Audience Award for Narrative Feature. The logline reads: Damla is a Turkish immigrant estranged from her homeland; she lives in New York City with her husband Kevin, expecting their first child. But Damla is still haunted by memories of her first love and when she returns to Turkey with Kevin she has to...

The Russian Woodpecker: Alarming

As an Official Selection for the 2015 Sundance Film Festival, The Russian Woodpecker description in the film catalog reads– A Ukrainian victim of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster discovers a dark secret and must decide whether to risk his life by revealing it, amid growing clouds of revolution and war. World Premiere at 2015 Sundance Film Festival — World Cinema Documentary Competition. That is only the beginning. Fedir Alexandrovich, artist,...

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