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    ‘While You Were Sleeping’ by Anderson Wright

    by The MovieBabble Staff August 27, 2021
    by The MovieBabble Staff August 27, 2021

    Night shift cleaners in Salt Lake City share their experiences and attitudes toward their essential work.   Nick Kush: While You Were Sleeping is a gentle reminder of the necessary, but mostly unappreciated work that so…

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    ‘The Moon’s Not That Great’ by Mathieu Libman

    by The MovieBabble Staff January 15, 2021
    by The MovieBabble Staff January 15, 2021

    After an astronaut returns from her lunar mission to find that the public lost all interest in the moon, the stories of the astronaut, a film director, and a bear intersect.   Nick Kush: Whether it’s…

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    ‘Freeze Frame’ by Soetkin Verstegen

    by The MovieBabble Staff January 5, 2021
    by The MovieBabble Staff January 5, 2021

    Identical figures perform the hopeless task of preserving blocks of ice.   Nick Kush: I love little oddballs such as Freeze Frame, wherein it appears the creator set out to try something just to see what…

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    ‘Youth’ by Farida Zahran

    by The MovieBabble Staff December 2, 2020
    by The MovieBabble Staff December 2, 2020

    A teenage girl takes a step toward adulthood in contemporary Cairo.   Nick Kush: Farida Zahran shows plenty of restraint in telling this coming-of-age story; in the wrong hands, Youth could turn into a needlessly brutal…

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    ‘Darling’ by Saim Sadiq

    by The MovieBabble Staff December 1, 2020
    by The MovieBabble Staff December 1, 2020

    As a new show is introduced at an erotic dance theater in Lahore, a sacrificial goat goes missing, a dreamy trans girl desperately tries to become a star, and a naive young boy falls in…

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    ‘Bob & Dale’ by David Rosfeld

    by The MovieBabble Staff November 29, 2020
    by The MovieBabble Staff November 29, 2020

    An elderly gay couple living off the grid in the Rocky Mountains finds a deeper love together when dementia threatens their independence. Nick Kush: I adore Bob & Dale’s sparing use of dialogue. The titular couple…

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    ‘If Anything Happens I Love You’: The Other U.S. Epidemic

    by B Peterson November 21, 2020
    by B Peterson November 21, 2020

    Warning: This article assumes you have seen the film If anything happens I love you. Please, go watch it on Netflix before reading. It’s only 12 minutes. 2020 has proven to be an incredible year…

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    Viewing Varda Part Three: ‘Cleo from 5 to 7’

    by B Peterson October 20, 2020
    by B Peterson October 20, 2020

    By the time Agnès Varda was filming her second feature in the summer of 1961, the French New Wave was in full swing. Godard, Truffaut, Resnais, Rohmer, and more had all released their directorial debuts…

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    ‘Is Your Daughter Home?’ by Vincenzo Nappi

    by The MovieBabble Staff September 30, 2020
    by The MovieBabble Staff September 30, 2020

    Mark Reiter stands in front of his love’s house as he practices what he will say to her mother.   Nick Kush: The grain of the film and the general rough-around-the-edges aesthetic to Is Your Daughter…

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    Fantasia Film Festival 2020: An Interview with Quinn Armstrong, Director of ‘Survival Skills’

    by Sean Coates September 1, 2020
    by Sean Coates September 1, 2020

    Quinn Armstrong’s Survival Skills has proved to be an audience favorite at this year’s Fantasia Film Festival. A parody of police training videos of the 1980s,  Armstrong’s film delves deeper into the outmoded teachings of these…

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    ‘Runon’ by Daniel Kaufman

    by The MovieBabble Staff August 15, 2020
    by The MovieBabble Staff August 15, 2020

    All Luke and his mom have are two garbage bags full of clothes, and two tickets out of town on the midnight Greyhound. Like he’s assembling a puzzle, Luke has to figure out the why…

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    ‘Man-Spider’ by Tom Oxenham

    by The MovieBabble Staff July 24, 2020
    by The MovieBabble Staff July 24, 2020

    Everyone knows the Spider-Man story: man gets bitten by spider, gets spider powers, becomes hero. But radioactive metamorphosis is a two-way street. So what about the spider who bit Peter Parker? Whatever became of him?…

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    ‘Sickboy’ by Julian Muller

    by The MovieBabble Staff July 17, 2020
    by The MovieBabble Staff July 17, 2020

    Every day that passes in New York City, Jeff finds a way to get through it. Maybe he’s driven to find love. Maybe he’s driven to find a connection. Or maybe he’s just driven to…

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    ‘-Ship: A Visual Poem’ by Terrance Daye

    by The MovieBabble Staff July 8, 2020
    by The MovieBabble Staff July 8, 2020

    A black boy learns contradicting lessons of manhood and masculinity on the day of his cousin’s funeral. Winner of 2020 Sundance Jury Award for U.S. Narrative Fiction.   Nick Kush: It’s the understatement of the year…

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    ‘If You Ever Hurt My Daughter, I Swear to God I’ll Let Her Navigate Her Own Emotional Growth’ by Meghan Ross

    by The MovieBabble Staff July 4, 2020
    by The MovieBabble Staff July 4, 2020

    If You Ever Hurt My Daughter, I Swear to God I’ll Let Her Navigate Her Own Emotional Growth is a short film adapted from the hilarious and heartwarming humor essay written by Toronto-based comedian Sophie…

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    YouTube’s Best Short Horror Movies: Part 3

    by Ingridje June 14, 2020
    by Ingridje June 14, 2020

    Welcome to Part 3 of this ongoing series about interesting short horror movies on YouTube. I find most of them via the channel of ALTER, unless otherwise noted. Let’s have a look, shall we? Read…

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    ‘Squeegee’ by Morgan Krantz

    by The MovieBabble Staff May 26, 2020
    by The MovieBabble Staff May 26, 2020

    A high-powered female executive has an erotic rendezvous with a high-rise window-washer on opposite sides of her office window. Funny and poignant, Squeegee is an apt portrait of intimacy in the time of social distancing.…

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    ‘Goldman v Silverman’ by Josh & Benny Safdie

    by Nick Kush January 19, 2020
    by Nick Kush January 19, 2020

    Rod Goldman and Al Silverman are street performers who work the tourist scene of Times Square. Goldman gets no respect and Silverman is the first one to make sure of that.   Credits Directed By:…

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    ‘Alien: Harvest’ by Benjamin Howdeshell

    by Nick Kush May 16, 2019
    by Nick Kush May 16, 2019

    The surviving crew of a damaged deep-space harvester have minutes to reach the emergency evacuation shuttle. A motion sensor is their only navigation tool leading them to safety while a creature in the shadows terrorizes…

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    ‘Scope’ by Richard Keaney

    by Nick Kush May 5, 2019
    by Nick Kush May 5, 2019

    When a young man drops out of college to care for his shut-in mother he too finds himself increasingly insulated from the outside world, something which conflicts with his growing forays into amateur astronomy. Credits…

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    Film Review – Denver Film Festival Short Films Part 3 (2018)

    by Olaf Lesniak November 9, 2018
    by Olaf Lesniak November 9, 2018

    These short films will be playing at the Denver Film Festival from October 31st to November 11th. Head over to the DFF’s website to purchase your tickets! The Denver Film Festival is here and the MovieBabble staff…

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    Savannah Kennick Talks Joining the Cast of ‘Arrested Development’ and the Importance of ‘Bloom’

    by Nick Kush May 20, 2018
    by Nick Kush May 20, 2018

    Young actors and actresses come and go all the time in the film industry — it’s just the nature of the business.  However, when you’re in my position as a critic, you occasionally come across…

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    Jenny Paul Discusses the New Short Film ‘Dead Layer’ and Her Work on Hulu’s ‘The Looming Tower’

    by Nick Kush May 19, 2018
    by Nick Kush May 19, 2018

    In show business, there’s always those select few individuals that can get “it” done for you, and actress Jenny Paul is absolutely one of the best examples of such people.  With more than a decade…

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    Short Film Review – Bound (2013)

    by Nick Kush February 8, 2018
    by Nick Kush February 8, 2018

    Short film is often a proving ground for aspiring filmmakers to show their skills and move into other projects.  While the team behind Bound has already gone on to create other works of art, it’s always nice…

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    Short Film Review – Total Performance (2015)

    by Maggie Coomer February 7, 2018
    by Maggie Coomer February 7, 2018

    The beauty of the short film is in its capability to deliver profound statements of truth in bite-sized time increments. Director/writer Sean Meehan explores the concept of a business built upon paid rehearsals of difficult…

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