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Daniel Patrick Carbone’s Hide Your Smiling Faces opens with a haunting, wordless image: a close-up of a snake on a muddy riverbed, jaws distended, slowly swallowing a another creature. It’s not quite clear what the creature is (a fish? A...

The press materials for Ramin Niami’s Shirin In Love compare it explicitly to My Big Fat Greek Wedding, and the films do share some superficial qualities – they’re both romantic comedies about daughters of immigrants who fall for blandly pleasant white guys. But...

Jenée LaMarque’s debut feature The Pretty One is a delicate, low-key indie dramedy, despite having a slightly lurid plot that Alfred Hitchcock or David Cronenberg could probably have had a lot of fun with. It tells the story of Audrey and Laurel,...

Josh C. Waller’s new film Raze has an admittedly sleazy-sounding premise: A group of fifty women are abducted by a secret society and forced to fight each other to the death. Spurred by concern for their loved ones – the society has...

Some viewers of Kevin McDonald’s How I Live Now, a teen love story set during a nuclear war, might find themselves wondering exactly who the film’s target audience is. It’s likely too violent and intense for many of the younger teens...