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Category: Film

  • Movie Time: Midnight Dreamers

    We are back with another great review, this time it’s a science fiction thriller from Canada titled Midnight Dreamers. The film recently made its premiere at the 2026 edition of IFFSA Toronto. The film is independent and was funded by several grants such as Canada Arts Council. Another first we got to watch in Midnight…

  • Movie Time: Playing With Fire: An Ecosexual Emergency

    Had the opportunity to watch a interesting environmental documentary film titled Playing With Fire: An Ecosexual Emergency. A film directed by longtime lovers and artists Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stevens. This being the final film of their series of queer environmental documentaries they definitely challenged their boundaries like never before. The premise of Playing With…

  • Jail Time Records is a musical documentary that premiered at the 2026 Tribeca Film Festival that follows recording artists emerging from one of the toughest prisons on the planet: Central Prison of Douala in Cameroon. The musicians use a makeshift studio where they express themselves through songs. There are three musicians that are featured: Stone,…

  • MARIO is a new documentary that premiered at the 2026 Tribeca Film Festival is a riveting story about Mario Cuomo, one of the most beloved governors in the history of New York State. The film is mainly set in the 1980s where Reagan is President and running for a second term but something or in…

  • Our coverage of the 2026 edition of Dances With Films NYC is getting completed and before we wrapped up everything from the festival we have to discuss one more film: Stop Time. A drama based in New York City where a photographer who still grieving over his deceased wife and a theatrical lighting designer who…

  • We got to go the 21st Annual Corto Circuito Latino ShortFest NYC last night which was its opening night and we were in some interesting storytelling based on the lineup of films that was featured. Opening Night was presented inside Instituto Cervantes New York on East 49th Street. Six films from all over the Latin…

  • The 48th Asian American International Film Festival kicked off with a unique body horror film titled Slanted. The film follows Joan Haung, a Chinese American teen who from the time she moved to America she was bullied for her cultural differences. As she is about to graduate she wants to become prom queen and will…