Tag: dystopian

During the opening credits of short film, Sincopat, many festival laurels are initially displayed onscreen. Then, following a loud ‘bang’ on the soundtrack, several dozen more appear. This is a first for me, but it is in sync with the...

Blackpills is fast becoming a must-watch space for unique original programming. From Luc Besson's assassin series Playground, to the faux 70's Grindhouse series A Girl is a Gun, the service already had my attention; but now that we've glimpsed into the future...

Director Nikhil Bhagat has debuted an impressive short film called As They Continue to Fall, a dark dystopian fantasy written by screenwriter C. Robert Cargill of Dr. Strange and Sinister fame.          The film tells the story of...

Schirkoa (shir-ko-aa) is a 14-minute animated short film created by CG artist Ishan Shukla. First conceived as a graphic novel in 2012, Ishan has been working on his own animated adaptation on and off again for the past four years...

The messages and metaphors of young adult fiction might be blunt enough to leave a mark as they hit you over the head, but the teen target audience doesn't seem to mind. Perhaps that's because the messages and metaphors, true...

Behold the tale of how I came to dive deep into The Criterion Collection. Almost all of us own the stray Criterion disc or two of our favorite films. Some of us have dozens of Criterion titles but collect far more...