A personal journal of film and documentary reviews, and reviews of anything else that intrigues me.
Ryan Turner, “A Date in 2025” (2017) Goofy teenage romantic comedy about a socially awkward and self-conscious young man meets insidious panopticon nanny-state, courtesy of artificial…
Aly Migliori, “After Her” (2018) A young man, Callum (Christopher Dylan White), goes in search of a young woman, Hayley (Natalia Dyer), five years after she…
Michael Mathews, “Apocalypse Now Now” (2017) Made as a proof-of-concept film on which a television series or a feature film will be based, “Apocalypse Now Now”…
British Films, North American Films
Daniel Prince, “Invaders” (2018) Playing as a homage and parody of the 1980s film “Batteries Not Included” in which a bunch of tiny extraterrestrial cyborg spaceships…
Ryan Patch, “Regulation” (2019) Set in the not-too distant future, in perhaps a post-industrial / hyper-cybernetic age, this short film character study is an intimate and…
Patrick Kalyn, “Hybrids” (2013) This sci-fi live action short seems to have been made as a proof-of-concept film to promote an idea for a television series…
Nicholas Wenger, “The Kid” (2018) “The Kid” is a six-minute proof-of-concept film made to demonstrate the potential of certain themes and issues that a longer and…
Arabic-language Films, North American Films
Elan Dassani, Rajeev Dassani, “Seam” (2017) An excellent little film that could serve as a pilot for a television series, “Seam” posits that in the near…
Will Lowell, “Custom Order” (2017) Looks like I hit a dud sci-fi short for once on the DUST channel with Will Lowell’s “Custom Order”. For a…
Australian and New Zealand Films
Catherine Bonny, “Colony” (2018) Partly informed by the history of early European settlement in Australia, as well as perhaps stories of the treatment of prisoners in…