FILM REVIEWS
Feature and short film reviews from our team of film critics and guest writers. Send trailer/screener links for our consideration to: reviews@film-forums.com

The Absurd, Surreal, Metaphysical and Fractured Destiny of Cerebus the Aardvark (2022), directed by Oliver Simonsen | FEATURE FILM REVIEW
Filmmaking is hard. At any budget. At any level. Getting anything out from the cinema of your mind and into the eyes and ears of

First Date (2021), directed by Manuel Crosby & Darren Knapp | FEATURE FILM REVIEW
First Date (2021) is an auspicious feature-length debut from the writing/directing duo Manuel Crosby and Darren Knapp where audiences are welcomed into an inconsistent but

Pregnancy Test (2021), directed by Matthew Sawyer | SHORT FILM REVIEW
Emma wants a baby. Lucas doesn’t. Cue honest conversations and miscommunication with a sting in the tale in Pregnancy Test (2021), a short film from

Shepherd (2021), directed by Russell Owen | FEATURE FILM REVIEW
It’s winter as I write this, so it’s cold and wet pretty much everywhere in the northern hemisphere this time of year. It’s particularly cold

Good on Paper (2021), directed by Kimmy Gatewood | FEATURE FILM REVIEW
Director Kimmy Gatewood‘s Good on Paper (2021) claims to be a ‘partially true story based on a lie’. That partially true story is the romantic

Castle Falls (2021), directed by Dolph Lundgren | FEATURE FILM REVIEW
With Castle Falls (2021), Dolph Lundgren’s return to the director’s chair poses interesting character subtext in this solid action thriller starring action icon Scott Adkins.