DEAD DICKS **** Canada 2019 Dir: Chris Bavota, Lee Paula Springer. 83 mins A distinctive, surprisingly moving genre-defying oddity from writing-directing team Bavota and Springer. Jillian Harris is terrific as Becca, a young neuroscience student who gets a distress call from her mentally ill brother Richie (Heston Horwin) and discovers…
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HOW TO BE ALONE **** USA 2019 Dir: Kate Trefry. 13 mins This is the filmmaking debut for writer Kate Trefry, a staff-writer on Netflix’s STRANGER THINGS. Maika Monroe, so good in both THE GUEST and IT FOLLOWS, is typically excellent as a photographer stuck at home while her husband…
THE EBBING *** USA 2019 Dir: Kevin Patrick Murphy. 13 Mins A beguiling short from actor-turned-director Kevin Patrick Murphy and actress-turned-writer Jennifer Trudrung (who has a part in the upcoming HALLOWEEN KILLS), this follows a traumatised mother who has recurring nightmares about her missing daughter. She envisions her as pallid…
ROAD TRASH *** USA 2019 Dir: Natasha Pascetta. 6 mins Writer-director Natasha Pascetta also plays the eponymous Alice in this cautionary tale told, in lieu of dialogue, by narrator Heather Langenkamp. “Some girls like make-up, others play sports. Alice was just a little different…” intones the erstwhile Nancy Thompson as…
Grimmfest 2020 will offer a roster of feature film premieres and shorts programmes across a new online platform. This year has seen every film festival struggling to find ways to present new films to their audience safely, without risk of infection, in the midst of a global pandemic. And after…