Sixteen-year-old Ami (Mihaya Shirata) is a Singaporean teen haunted by the echoes of the mysterious disappearance of her mother in the wake of the cataclysmic tsunami that tore through eastern Asia in 2011. Her dreams torment her leading her to seek answers from her father who initially acts very cagey and emotionally shut down. He…
Family (2017) [Indiepix] DVD Review
Lily Brooke (Veronica Kedar) frantically arrives at her therapist’s house one evening demanding a session. The therapist is out but her bitchy teenage daughter Talia (Tommy Baremboem) is there and is willing to listen albeit in as judgmental a way as possible. Well, Lily needs someone to listen to her family problems, and Talia will…
Blue Desert [IndiePix] DVD Review
Ele (Odilon Esteves) is a man unmoored in life in the distant future. Each day he boards some sort of space flight, the routine a kind of numbing influence on his life. He wanders across a desert where he meets an old man (Chico Diaz) who desire to spray paint the sand blue. Ele does…
Intensely Independent: The Micro-Budget Films of Blake Eckard [Synapse] DVD Review
In Bubba Moon Face, we follow Horton Bucks (Tyler Messner) who returns to his hometown in northwest Missouri after his mother’s death. He’s broke with no car and resorts to crashing on his brother Stanton (Joe Hammerstone)’s couch. While dealing with their mother’s funeral, Stanton’s fuck buddy Sabetha (Sylvian Geiger) shows up with a baby…
The Escort [Indiepix] DVD Review
Miro (Zivko Anocic) is a upwardly mobile, successful businessman with a loving family and a lot to lose. He makes a grave error while away on a trip when a prostitute shows up to his room unannounced and he taking advantage of her services. He later finds her dead in his room, and his situation…
DVD Review – Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In – The Complete Series
Before there was Saturday Night Live and beating Monty Python’s Flying Circus by a year (more years if you count how long it took to import it to America) was Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In. Dick Martin and Dan Rowan’s sketch comedy show was not the first sketch comedy show to hit American airwaves, not by…
DVD Review – Austin City Limits Country – Time Life
I have lived in Austin for almost 10 years now. Now my reasons for moving here are many, and in the end it boiled down to my career (I’m in tech, don’t judge me). One of the main reasons Austin came on my radar was a teenage viewing of Richard Linklater’s seminal ode to Austin…