The production values are modest, in accordance with the budget, but the actors acquit themselves well.
Burnt-out trans activist Caz returns to the rural dairy community he fled before transition, to reconnect with his father. As father and son reconcile, Caz finds new purpose, spearheading the town's environmental fight against 'Big Dairy'.
Director Jen McGowan proves expert at drawing out the humanity in her characters, making the brutality of those bent on protecting their own interests far more disturbing.
A student finds herself wounded and hunted by dangerous criminals after taking a short cut through the Appalachian mountains.
Laura Ramsey, in particular, is atrociously bad as the increasingly hysterical Stacy, so that one sometimes wonders if she's deliberately taking the piss.
Four young American tourists accompany new friends to an archaeological dig at a Mayan ruin, but find something nasty lurking there.
Moments of reflection are balanced by playful scenes structured around the clichés of horror filmmaking.
Welcome to Slasher Sleepout: The Ultimate Horror Movie Experience combining camping, haunted house, and an escape room into one extreme 36-hour event. Six strangers are hooded, dropped in the middle of the woods, and must survive a simulated horror movie. But then people start dying for real.
There's a wham, bam, thank you, man, quality to this music biopic that makes it a pleasurable rock rush that's easy on the eye, even if it fails to do much more than skate the surface of the band of its title.
Besides the schizophrenic storyline, what really brings the film down to a 3-star experience is the fact that director Wayne Kramer uses every editing technique he can think of, despite whether it is appropriate or not.
Looking for a gun in New York is a dangerous business.
These are the sort of people we usually look at from a distance, appearing briefly to be manipulated, laughed at and dismissed on TV talk shows. Here they get to speak on their own terms.
An intensely personal story about the filmmaker's artist father and his partner living in their decaying house in New Orleans.
