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Engaging shorts Disoriented and Dinner at Manny's are screening at the New Jersey Film Festival
by Yuri Kim
published 2025-01-22

“Is now a good time?” The question is usually asked when it never is. Disoriented is a short film that follows the stories of 3 different individuals, all of whom receive a phone call while in the middle of their day-to-day lives. The news they receive takes them out of their surroundings, wrapped up in the voice that is on the other line. What should they do? How should they act? It is up to each of them to decide how to respond - while stuck in a situation where they must present a different face outwards than the conflicting, whirling emotions that they feel inside.




 

Spring 2025 New Jersey Film Festival to Run from January 24th to February 16th

(NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ) -- The Spring 2025 New Jersey Film Festival takes place on select Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays between and January 24-February 16, 2025. The event, hosted in part by Rutgers, features both in-person and online screenings of forty-four films from around the globe as well as a concert featuring Renee Maskin.



UCPAC presents the Rocky Horror Picture Show – A Live Movie Experience with the Cosmic Light Cabaret Shadowcast on Friday

(RAHWAY, NJ) -- Let's do the Time Warp again! Come see The Rocky Horror Picture Show – A Live Movie Experience with the Cosmic Light Cabaret Shadowcast on Friday, January 24, 2025 at the Union County Performing Arts Center (UCPAC). This will be an interactive and fun night with audience call-backs, props, and more so you can join in all the fun. Live performers will act out the film in front of the screen for an immersive experience like none other. Costumes are welcomed, so don’t dream it – be it! Showtime is 8:00pm.



Masterpiece feature Giant’s Kettle gets its statewide debut at the New Jersey Film Festival

by Yuri Kim
published 2025-01-21

Giant’s Kettle begins with a black screen, as howling winds are heard in the background. We rest with this image - we stay with this image. Slowly, a hand and a face eerily come out of the darkness, looking straight at us, the viewer. It’s a man. His forehead is bandaged. His expression is blank. He stares at us for an uncomfortably long period of time. We feel that he is trapped. We feel that he holds resentment, but also tiredness. He then finally breaks eye contact with us as he closes his eyes and smudges his face against the glass, breathing heavily.



New Jersey Film Festival Spring 2025 Short Film Video Q+A #2

by Vic Fern
published 2025-01-20

Here is the New Jersey Film Festival Spring 2025 Short Film Video Q+A #2 with Sylvia Director Hannah Zipperman, Help Yourself Director Hedvig Andersson, Embryo Directors Joy and Caleb Waldinger, and Crowboy Producer/Writer William Doan and Festival Director Al Nigrin.





New Release Review - "Here"

by Eric Hillis, TheMovieWaffler.com
published 2025-01-19

It's a Forrest Gump reunion as director Robert Zemeckis, writer Eric Roth, stars Tom Hanks and Robin Wright, composer Alan Silvestri and cinematographer Don Burgess all reteam for Here, a shambolic adaptation of a ground-breaking 2014 graphic novel by Richard McGuire, itself an expansion of a six-panel story published in 1989. Forrest Gump saw Hanks play a man-child who unwittingly stumbles in and out of some of the key events of the second half of the twentieth century. In Here, such events simply play out on a TV or radio in the corner of the living room of a house in New Jersey. The movie instead focuses on the relatively mundane events in the lives of the residents of said house.



Passionate short Mad Clean screens on opening day of the New Jersey Film Festival

by Anran Li
published 2025-01-19

It is not every day that you get to watch a movie starting with only close-ups of everything. I suppose that is quite a clever gesture to introduce a manic character without saying the exact words – we get to see through her eyes, enter her mind; we feel her fear. The short film Mad Clean opens strong: a forcefully worded argument in which we only see the seemingly stubborn, and struggling sister unwilling to step out of her excluded apartment cell. We are immediately trapped in this claustrophobic space with the protagonist, Leanne, who so fiercely closed the door against the rest of the world as what seems to be a self-protecting attempt. The movie seems to be tinted with an unwavering gray hue until accompanying the upbeat music. Ebony, the cleaning lady, interrupts the melancholic scene wearing a bright cloud of baby-blue. 



New Jersey Film Festival Short Film Video Q+A #1

by Vic Fern
published 2025-01-18

Here is the New Jersey Film Festival Spring 2025 Short Film Video Q+A #1 with The Hollowing Director Steve Weinzierl, Phantom Limb Director Alice Jokela, and Festival Director Al Nigrin.



Dystopian Feature Dead Community Guild screens at the New Jersey Film Festival on Saturday, January 25!

by Anran Li
published 2025-01-16

Three minutes into this film, I paused and texted my boyfriend, a huge enthusiast of creative thrillers, stunts, and cool fight scenes: “I think this is totally your thing.” While Texas Chainsaw Massacre is almost THE horror film that would trigger the “You’ve NEVER seen this?” response, following its steps is hardly a child’s play. I will not say Dead Community Guild is a textbook demonstration, yet it is rather straightforward and concise in what it conveys: a dystopia premise with the end-day desperation on the scorching Texas road. The opening scene well establishes how the worldview is built with a crisp and somewhat comedic confrontation. Just as such, we are informed of how, in the film, the human conflict is extremely exacerbated by the scarcity of resources that laws, civilization, and the goodness of human nature all cave in to the minimal animal instinct and the drive to survive. The radio broadcasting of the “welcoming” messages for survivors to join the community, despite the endearing tone, recurs in the film so often that it becomes creepy as a threat that we cannot help but assume the so-called community might be the climate of a bloodbath, just like the dawn of the Hunger Games.



New Release Review - "Maria"

by Eric Hillis, TheMovieWaffler.com
published 2025-01-15

Artists rarely engage with their own art once the creative process has been completed (save for Quentin Tarantino, who seems all too happy to watch a triple bill of his own movies). A musician won't listen to their records; a filmmaker will refuse to watch their movies; a painter will sell a painting and never set eyes upon it again. The artist will tell you it's because they only see the mistakes in their work, and it's now too late to correct them (George Lucas aside).


 

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