Stranger Eyes (2025 Montclair Film Summer Showcase) Film Review & Summary
Stranger Eyes has a strong middle, but its beginning and ending? It lacks what most films pursue to hook you and compensate for its weaker moments.
Film Festival
From the Montclair Film Festival in New Jersey, New York’s NewFest, Tribeca Film Festival, and Urban World Film Festival, to the famed Sundance Film Festival, here you’ll find our film festival coverage (which contains movies, shorts, and episodic content).
Outerlands (Newfest Pride 2025) Review & Summary
Otherlands explores the quiet ache of loneliness and the emotional risk of seeking connection, through a deeply human story about chosen family and unspoken longing.
Queens of the Dead (Tribeca 2025) Film Review & Summary
Queens of the Dead, produced by Shudder and in line with their brand, is everything you’d expect it to be and more.
Sovereign (Tribeca 2025) Film Review & Summary
Sovereign takes a news story and fleshes it out in such a way which feels more geared towards entertainment than taking the situation seriously.
We Are Kings (Tribeca 2025) Short Film Review & Summary
In We Are Kings, two boys use pirated discs to start a business in 2001, with the hopes it could make them some money, and maybe help one get a girl.
Oh, Hi! (Tribeca 2025) Film Review & Summary
Oh, Hi! asks its audience, how far can its lead actress go, and you stay on her side?
Happy Birthday (Tribeca 2025) Film Review & Summary
Happy Birthday is a reminder that child actors can excel without high level trauma or being an accessory to an adult’s performance.
A Tree Fell In The Woods (Tribeca 2025) Film Review & Summary
In “A Tree Fell In The Woods,” a group of friends try to navigate whether a secret coming out is worth blowing up their lives or should be ignored.
Ride or Die (Tribeca 2025) Film Review & Summary
Ride or Die finds its greatest strength in Stella Everett’s performance, but it struggles to move beyond the appearance of sensationalism.
In Cold Light (Tribeca 2025) Film Review & Summary
In Cold Light, while it sets up an intriguing film focused on an ex-con tempted with returning to their old ways, ends up leaving audiences cold.
