Bear With Us was one of the standout films at the FilmQuest film festival, a romantic comedy with the outlandish premise of a bear hunt in the woods. After I saw the film, I got ahold of director William J. Stribling for an interview about his film. Stribling told me he shot Bear With Us […]
Muddy Corman got FilmQuest off to a great start as the opening night film this year. The comedy made lots of people, even the festival programmers, think of Wes Anderson and Napoleon Dynamite, but in the post-screening Q&A, director Jon McDonald said his influences were Brian De Palma and Mike Nichols. One Utah local even […]
The Fostering is a first feature from directors Rodrigo Gasparini and Dante Vescio and the first credit of many of the cast, so I would have given it the benefit of the doubt. It turns out no benefit of the doubt was necessary. The Fostering is a strongly crafted and perform descent into horror. Ale […]
The FilmQuest Film Festival held a panel on the subject of Minorities in Genre Film, with some of its festival filmmakers and local filmmakers. The panel included Yolanda Stange, President of Utah Women in Film, David No, director of the short Battle of Wills and an actor himself, and Jody Wilson, writer/director of the short […]
With the popularity of Renaissance Faires and LARPing, both fans and newbies should appreciate this documentary style comedy about a group who form their own Renaissance village in the woods. There are inside jokes galore but plenty of broad comedy for everyone too. With the documentary style, it almost seems like the unknown cast of […]
Isolation doesn’t only happen in a cabin in the woods. Sorry, Thoreau, but these days we can be even more isolated in modern homes. Here, we don’t even have nature and animals to keep us company. In Shortwave, Josh (Cristobal Tapia Montt) and Isabel (Juanita Ringeling) move into a house like the one in Ex […]
Muddy Corman sounds like it could be the plot of an Adam Sandler or Rob Schneider movie, where they have to pull off a crazy scheme to get enough money to keep their school open. Imagine the highbrow approach to that and that’s more like Muddy Corman. Gavin Porter (Lucas O’Keefe) is a pushover who […]
Most low budget filmmakers go out to a cabin in the woods to make a horror movie because it’s inexpensive and scary. Bear With Us used their resources to make an absurd comedy and the ridiculous twist on the format is much appreciated. Quincy Adams (Christy Carlson Romano) turns down Colin Dense (Mark Sullivan)’s marriage […]
I discovered Man Vs. Snake: The Long And Twisted Tale of Nibbler at Fantastic Fest, where I got to meet champion gamers Tim McVey and Dwayne Richard, the subject of the film. This weekend, attendies at Filmquest got to discover Man Vs. Snake before its release on Friday, June 24, so I present my interview […]
I originally reviewed Man Vs. Snake: The Long And Twisted Tale Of Nibbler at Fantastic Fest. On Sunday, June 19 it will play at Filmquest before its release on June 24, so I present my review of the film again. Check back Sunday for an interview with Tim Mcvey and Dwayne Richard: Well, I guess this video […]