Nick Canellakis charming romantic comedy Thin Walls plays this Saturday, October 3 at the Fall 2020 New Jersey Film Festival!
Here is my interview with Thin Walls Director Nick Canellakis:
Here is my interview with My Dinner With Werner director Maverick Moore:
Here is my video Q+A with The Palindromists Director Vince Clemente:
Here is my interview with Love is not Love Director Stephen Mills:
Here is my interview with Bella Co-Director Seth D. Myers:
Here is my interview with Slideshows From The Peanut Gallery Director Paul Rodgers:
It’s been an agonizing nine-year wait for writer-director Sean Durkin to follow up his outstanding 2011 debut Martha Marcy May Marlene, but he’s finally gotten the finger out and delivered a second feature. And boy, has he delivered! Returning to the UK, where he was raised as a child and where he directed the 2013 Channel 4 mini-series Southcliffe, Durkin has given us a doom-laden rejoinder to the current rose-tinted nostalgia for that most awful of decades, the 1980s. The Nest is a moody family drama that plays like The Omen with Thatcher swapped in for Satan.
Super Storm Sandy was an experience that few who lived through it will ever forget. Filmmaker Derek J. Pastuszek captures the lonely, dreary aftermath of the storm and the hope for rebirth afterwards in his short film The Islander. It will be screened during the New Jersey Film Festival on October 4th along with three other shorts (Ashes to Ashes, The Hustle Is Real, and Karaoke League). The year the festival is virtual, which lets you purchase and rent films from anywhere. Films are available for 24 hours.
REVIEW: "The Devil All The Time"
Over the last decade or so, writer/director Antonio Campos has established himself as a master of intimate, moody character studies. His movies thus far have been rigidly focused on troubled individuals who pose an existential threat to either themselves (Christine) or others (Afterschool; Simon Killer). It’s safe to say he has an interest in homicide and suicide, which might make him the prime candidate to adapt Donald Ray Pollock’s The Devil All the Time, a novel in which almost every character either takes their own life or that of another member of its sprawling cast.
There are films about important subjects, films that bring characters to life, and films that are challenging for the viewer - Julia Kots’ debut full-length film, Inez & Doug & Kira is all three. It features great acting performances, superb character development, and enough mystery to keep viewers glued to each scene. The New Jersey Film Festival offers a virtual screening of the film on October 16. It will be available for 24 hours.