More Happiness (2021) – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
More Happiness is a bit strange and doesn’t really venture to demystify itself.
Not Rated
The First Time (2021) – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
The First Time gives you webcomic-turned short web series vibes, but it is not long enough.
Carino (2021) – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
In this three-minute short, we get an innocent and adorable showing of the lengths someone will go through for a crush.
All Boys Aren’t Blue (2021) – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
Throw three monologues, we recount how a young man named Matthew found strength in community, through his Grandmother and eventually, himself.
The Novice (2021) – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
I want you to imagine the intensity in Black Swan mixed with Whiplash, and in that volatile mix, you’ll get Isabelle Fuhrman in The Novice.
Under My Skin (2021) – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
While Under My Skin may make you question “Where is this going” and “Why are four people playing one person?” you never get bored.
Sweetheart (2021) – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
Sweetheart may not craft the best conflicts or resolutions, but it excels when it comes to teen romance and family dynamics.
Stigma, Style (2021) – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
As a young girl comes of age, she finds herself idolizing one of her friend’s older sister.
Be Good (2021) – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
Be Good hyper focuses on the experience of having an eating disorder while making its character solely a vehicle for the depiction.
Americanized (2021) – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
Americanized explores that longing for community, especially when you don’t perfectly fit in with any you identify with.
Swimsuit (2021) – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
A young girl of Islamic faith has a growing interest in wearing a bikini to her swim meet and decides she isn’t going to ask her mother’s permission.
Footsteps On The Wind (2021) – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
In this music video, you get a sad, animated story that illuminates the lyrics of Sting’s “Inshallah.”
Death & Deathability (A Period Piece) (2021) – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
Someone call Nickelodeon, Disney, some children’s network because they need to make Death & Deathability (A Period Piece) a series – STAT!
Wouldn’t Mean Nuthin’ (2021) – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
Wouldn’t Mean Nuthin’ gives you the vibe Black & Sexy TV gave in the early 2010s.
Apart, Together (2021) – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
Apart, Together is a touching story focused on a woman looking for the daughter she was forced to give up.
What She Said (2021) – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
What She Said presents a broad focus on rape as it covers how the survivor feels, those who were there, and what should be done throughout the aftermath.
Pollux (2018) – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
In a town plagued by the closure of a major factory employer, a handful of boys are trying to make money to maintain some sense of normalcy.
Gameboy (2014) – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
Four boys steal their school exam papers and make a business from selling the tests, but how will they deal with karma biting them in the ass?
Tree House [Cabane] (2016) – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
Is it impossible for a group of teen friends to not have at least one love triangle drama?
The Last Day of School (2019) – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
What does one do when in need of money, and an old friend offers an illegal but easy way to get it? Which would help your family and relationship immensely?
Gotta (2015) – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
No matter how old you get, change is difficult. However, when it is sprung up on you, is it wrong for you to get mad?
Masquerade (2021) – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
Masquerade is the type of film which heavily relies on its ending to make up for nearly the entire movie.
Pink Opaque (2020) – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
In Pink Opaque, we watch as its lead confronts an unstable present, a covered up past, and an uncertain future, as they deal with homelessness.
Here After (2021) – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
While Here After fka Faraway Eyes takes a bit to warm up to, it’s all smooth sailing once the focus becomes the lead couple.
Externo (2021) – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
Externo, while at times tapping on that line of being too art-house, presents a compelling journey as one man vies to take over the world.
Do You Also Feel A Tingle? – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
Your first anything is always a magical moment, but only if with the right person.
The One and Only Dick Gregory (2021) – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
The One and Only Dick Gregory feels very much like a highlight reel that pushes the idea it wanted to either minimalize faults or that there weren’t any.
She Dreams At Sunrise (2021) – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
I hope you’ve been drinking enough water for She Dreams At Sunrise will not only make you cry but ugly cry.
Girl With A Thermal Gun (2021) – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
Is it real life, or was it all a fantasy? That is the question you’re left with after watching Girl With A Thermal Gun
Cupids (2021) – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
3 children, worried about bus driver over the summer, contemplate who they know to pair them up within an adorable 10 minute short.
Settlers (2021) – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
In this sometimes slow-moving sci-fi drama, you’re reminded of what the cost for survival can be in a post-apocalyptic world – and it often is more than you’re willing to give.
Beautiful They (2021) – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
Beautiful They gives you the soft LGBT+ love story so many ask for but so rarely see.
Magnolia Bloom (2021) – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
In what appears to be one of the final moments of a long movie, we watch as a young woman integrates a room to share a highlight of her life with her people.
Esther In Wonderland (2021) – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
Esther In Wonderland is a reminder that Hip-Hop has fans across all cultures and worlds, and they will find what they need one way or another.
Blush (2021) – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
In 11 minutes, you get one of the cutest animated sci-fi love stories since Wall-E.
Asking For It (2021) – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
Asking For It has a B-Movie vibe as it has a group of radical feminists take on incels and the patriarchy.
Dating and New York (2021) – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
Is this a romantic comedy? Yes. However, that doesn’t mean Dating and New York may not make you cry – which it did for us.
7 Days (2021) – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
On top of 7 Days being an opposites attract story, it also taps into stereotypes then expands them to remind you they are ignorant viewpoints of a much more complicated culture.
Poser (2021) – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
Poser operates much like an action movie. The only difference is, rather than sitting through the story to get to the action sequences, in Poser you are awaiting the next musical performance.
