Author: Sean Parker
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What the hell is mukbanging? Admit it, you’re curious enough to ask the question but have no idea what images Google might send you in response, so you’ve been waiting for this exact review, you sly dog. You’ve probably witnessed a mukbang and had no idea. And if you’ve ever eaten on camera and posted…
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This past Saturday, I had the spectacular opportunity to speak with Somnium’s Racheal Cain and Chloë Levine ahead of the film’s world premiere at the Chattanooga Film Festival. Somnium is an ambitious film about a starry-eyed young starlet, Gemma (Levine), pursuing her dreams of making it in Hollywood while juggling a job at a shady medical…
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When I arrived at the Brattle Theatre for my first Boston Underground Film Festival screening this year, I didn’t even look at what I was seeing. I was so punchdrunk by the atmosphere, excited to be watching indie films again in the cozy, amazing theater, that when I saw it was Off Ramp, a movie…
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We may be calling it The 2024 Chattanooga Film Festival, but realistically, this year belongs to Grace Van Dien. The actress appeared in two of the festival’s world premieres this weekend, Somnium on Saturday and tonight’s closing film, The Fix. As a kid, Van Dien started with bit parts, playing alongside her father in one…
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Making its world premiere at the Chattanooga Film Festival this weekend, Racheal Cain’s Somnium affirms that dreams are within your reach, even if reality makes achieving them a nightmare. The film follows Gemma (The Ranger’s Chloë Levine) as she arrives in Hollywood from a simple Midwestern farm town to pursue her dream of becoming an actress.…
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In the midst of preparing for the 2022 Fantasia Film Festival, one film stood out above many others. Fantasia always has its impressive share of science fiction, horror, and genre films, yet Vera Drew’s trans-superhero and metaphoric fable, The People’s Joker, was one that I, and I think a lot of other critics had at…
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When John Rosman’s New Life premiered at Fantasia last August, it was one of those movies I knew I wanted to see. I love science-fiction films, and this one was playing it pretty close to the chest, providing a very limited synopsis and only a couple of pictures to go on. JP Nunez won the…
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Jill Gevargizian’s The Stylist was one of the most delightful surprises of 2020. Outside of Sweeney Todd, we hadn’t really seen a hairstylist killer, which gave the film an original feeling. Not to mention there were two fantastic performances from Najarra Townsend and Brea Grant. Gevargizian, who is a trained hair stylist, put a lot…
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My favorite horror concepts are always the ones that are right in your face, and writer-director Nick Verdi’s Sweet Relief is abundantly that. A slow roll of suburban moral panic, Verdi paints the Rockwellian portrait of a sleepy small town and fills it with uproar over a viral internet challenge. It’s a song we’ve all…