It seems to me that I didn’t enjoy Sleepless Nights quite the way other readers have, especially considering the novel includes Elizabeth Hardwick. And that key aspect alone makes me feel like I’m at fault. Hardwick is an American Virginia Woolf, a person preoccupies herself with making the boundaries nearer to central. The closest thing […]
Films that feature dialogue as the main element can be a lot more complex. Because if a film is faultily directed, then it can move quite slowly and put the audience into a deep slumber. But thankfully, the filmmakers behind the New Zealand independent film ‘Sunday’ hit the jackpot and made a beautifully crafted relationship
Without is highly captivating which makes it stand out the most. It is a small film, with few characters and locations. Even then, it is a film that grabbed my interest from the start. This can be attributed to the casting. Mark Jackson, the director, tells this very quiet story with numerous angles and shots
The Hollywood film industry and its audience has faced challenges resurrecting film noir classics produced from the 1940’s, Steve Anderson’s 2023 release “The White Orchird” aims to overcome those obstacles. During the last week of September, a new movie had its world premiere in Santa Barbara, California called “The White Orchid”, and at the same
The world of budgetary independent films is treacherous. A new film seems to arrive every week, and every week the reviewer goes into battle mode, bracing himself for yet another foolish half-hearted attempt at a film. Not all of these films are bad; every once and a while a good one injects something into these
“Sting” features a modestly scaled horror caper where a spider attacks a couple of Brooklynites over the course of 91 minutes, which inludes the 7 minutes allocated to the closing credits. The running time feels undeniably short for the film because several characters and animal attack scenes feel rushed and underdeveloped. Even though there is
“Fields of the Dead” ends with a ghost asking “Do you understand now?” to another ghost that affirms in reply. Based on that I guess I’m glad someone got it even if it is fictional. Personally, there are a number of things I never quite figured out. The trailer of “Fields of the Dead” hints
My biggest issue with “Compound Fracture” is that it led to a very bad case of writer’s block that forced me to think about the movie for much longer than I had to and to try to re-write this first paragraph way too many times. I know what I think about the film. The problem
As Film Apocalypse is dedicated to independent films, I find myself watching many movies that are nowhere close to what people consider good. Because of this, the reviews on the site tend to be pointed towards true indie and no-budget film fans. Although I do my best to not have my expectations too high, I
Jo (Josephine Decker) sustains herself in New Orleans by reciting ghost stories for a living. She conducts ghost walks and participates in performance art pieces called “Haunted Gatherings” in allegedly haunted places. Jo has a strong instinctive connection with spirits, a trait she inherited from her mother who was a psychic. It seems a certain
