Tag: chattanoogafilmfestival
Chattanooga 2024 Review: BLIND COP 2 Parodies '80s Action Flicks to Diminishing Returns
During VHS’s all-too-brief Golden Age (roughly the ‘80s through the ‘90s), you could step into any neighborhood video store, peruse the stacks of new releases, and leave an hour later with any number of low-budget, straight-to-video action titles of varying...
Chattanooga 2024 Review: VIDEO VISION Looks Backward to Look Forward in a Wonderful Queer Romance Body Horror Story
Video Vision wears its Videodrome influence on its sleeve. Of course there's the name, but it goes further than that; both are about their central characters becoming one with analog technology and both make fantastic use of practical effects, especially...
Chattanooga 2024 Review: NOCLIP Goes Nowhere On Purpose
NOCLIP opens with a silly animated commercial for the Kansas City Missouri mall Crown Center. It's a real mall that's existed for more than half a century now, though I haven't been able to determine whether or not the commercial...
Chattanooga 2024 Review: SWEET RELIEF, Or, BLUE VELVET for the 21st Century
While many films, including some of its festival mates at the Chattanooga Film Festival this year, regurgitate some of David Lynch's images and ideas, Sweet Relief offers something comparable to, rather than derivative of the master of modern dark surrealism....
Chattanooga Film Festival 2024: Massive, Mind-Melting Last Wave
Wow. Wow wow wow. The Chattanooga Film Festival just unleashed a cavalcade of cinematic insanity for their upcoming extravaganza (June 21-23 in person, June 21-28 virtual). We’re big fans of CFF’s annual explosion of genre fun, featuring narrative features, docs,...
Chattanooga Film Festival 2024: First Wave, Plus Serling, Poe, Spooky Book Fair
Calling all fans who love rad, indie festivals and films! The Chattanooga Film Festival has just released their first wave of features and additional events, lovingly put together by the most fun weirdos in Tennessee. CFF is one of...
Chattanooga 2023 Review: END ZONE 2 and THE ONCE AND FUTURE SMASH Invite Viewers Into an Alternate Horror History
The multi-film, single project experiment has been done before, perhaps most famously with The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby, which saw different perspectives on the same story. But with End Zone 2 and The Once and Future Smash, creative team Sophia...
Chattanooga 2023 Review: SOUR PARTY Takes Viewers On a Hilarious Ride Through LA
Sour Party, the feature debut from co-writers/directors Amanda and Michael Drexton (billed as “The Drextons” in credits), isn’t particularly original in its narrative beats, a “one crazy day” story that takes us to various locations and introduces us to various...
Chattanooga 2023 Review: THE LAST MOVIE EVER MADE Delights in Filmmaking, Wallows in Drama
Nathan Blackwell wrote and directed the indie film.
Chattanooga 2023 Review: BRUTAL SEASON Brilliantly Melds Theater and Cinema
Gavin Fields wrote and directed the intense drama, starring Colleen Madden and Houston Settle.
Chattanooga 2023 Review: WE MIGHT HURT EACH OTHER, Graduation Party Gone Wrong Or Social Responsibility Lesson?
Jonas Trukanas directed the thoughtful horror thriller from Lithuania.
Chattanooga 2020 Review: THE WANTING MARE, A Fantastical and Haunting Fable
Some research on trauma has suggested that it can pass in DNA, from generation to generation; trauma so severe that literally gets written in our genetic coding, which we then pass on to our children. Perhaps it fades or becomes...
Chattanooga 2018 Announces TIGERS ARE NOT AFRAID, THE RANGER and Much More
Chattanooga Film Festival has dropped a second wave of titles for 2018. Newly added titles include recent fest favorites Tigers are Not Afraid, Downrange, A Prayer Before Dawn and Let the Corpses Tan. Newly added world premieres include Lesser Beasts, Dementia...
Chattanooga 2018 Unleashes Its First Wave of Films, Plus Great Special Events!
Chattanooga Film Festival was unleashed its first full wave of titles for 2018. Based on this new announcement, there is a lot of to be excited about. Newly announced world premieres include: Wolfman's Got Nards, a doc about the cult film...
Chattanooga 2018 Announces LIFE AFTER FLASH, SUMMER OF '84 and ROCK STEADY ROW
Since its inaugural edition in 2014, the Chattanooga Film Festival (CFF) in Tennesse has developed into an essential destination on the U.S. regional film festival circuit. CFF's programming is defined by a carefully curated mix of arthouse, genre and documentary...
