Diani and Devine Meet the Apocalypse [Movie Review, Screened at FilmQuest Film Festival 2017]
Diani and Devine Meet the Apocalypse looks at surviving an apocalyptic event by the common man. The apocalypse has come and Etta Devine and Gabriel Diani are a comedic...
Muse [Movie Review, Screened at FilmQuest Film Festival 2017]
Muse hints in its title at a high level to what the story is about. A struggling artist finds his muse, and in so doing rises quickly in the...
Dead Leaves, Movie Review, Screened at FilmQuest Film Festival 2017
I saw the French-Canadian film Dead Leaves at the 2017 FilmQuest Film Festival. Dead Leaves is three stories taking place at the same time in the Canadian woods five...
Curvature, Movie Review Screened at FilmQuest Film Festival 2017
Curvature is a time travel adventure with a suspenseful twist bringing the lead character, Helen (Lyndsy Fonesca: RePlay, Agent Carter), full circle on herself. Helen is a robotics engineer...
The Gateway, Movie Review screened at FilmQuest 2017
A particle physicist, Jane Chandler (Jacqueline McKenzie—The Water Diviner and Deep Blue Sea) has been working with her assistant Regg (Ben Mortley—Pale Blue Eyes and The Woodcutter) on making...
Dead Shack, Movie Review Screened at FilmQuest Film Festival 2017
Dead Shack is a horror/comedy/young adult (YA) movie with the tropes you’ve come to expect. It takes place in a cabin in the woods and there are zombies. There...
Enjoyment of Short Films and FilmQuest
Attending FilmQuest this year (2017) brought back my enjoyment of short films. I didn’t realize until sitting through a couple of blocks of films how much I liked them...
FilmQuest 2016 Shorts [Movie Review]
Dozens of short films played at FilmQuest 2016, Salt Lake City’s very own genre film festival. While I could not watch even half of the shorts I wanted, I...
Chicago Rot [Movie Review]
Having premiered at FilmQuest, Salt Lake City’s very own genre film festival, Chicago Rot seems determined to throw as many of those genres into the blender as possible in...
Shortwave [Movie Review]
Inspired by the fascinating topic of shortwave radio, Ryan Gregory Phillips‘s Shortwave proposes a substantially dark theory on the origin of shortwave signals. Phillips builds uncommonly solid atmosphere, a...