Risky Business is a 1983 American romantic comedy film written and directed by Paul Brickman, making his directorial debut. It stars Tom Cruise and Rebecca De Mornay. The film launched Cruise to stardom. It covers themes including materialism, loss of innocence, coming of age and capitalism; when a Chicago teenager is looking for fun… Continue Reading
Cream Soda are two Moscow-based producers, Dima Nova and Ilya Gadaev. Cream Soda’s music is full of the warmth of vintage synthesizers, classic house vibes and captivating vocals. Cream Soda is honest, festive house music with a late Eighties-early Nineties… Continue Reading
The Witches of Eastwick is a 1987 American dark fantasy-comedy film directed by George Miller and starring Jack Nicholson as Daryl Van Horne, alongside Cher, Michelle Pfeiffer and Susan Sarandon as the eponymous witches. The film is based upon a novel by John Updike. On Thursday nights three female friends, Alex (Cher), Sukie… Continue Reading
Set on one fateful night, six friends gather for their monthly ‘games night’ and accidentally unleash a demonic force that might tear them and their friendships into pieces. Don’t Move is the 8th slice in Bloody Cuts’ anthology of short horror… Continue Reading
Parasite is a 2019 South Korean black comedy thriller film directed by Bong Joon-ho. Meet the Park Family: the picture of aspirational wealth. And the Kim Family, rich in street smarts but not much else. Be it chance or fate, these two houses are brought together… Continue Reading
Polaroid is a dark and stylish thriller that made a splash on the festival circuit in 2015. Set in a large Norwegian farmhouse in the middle of winter, two young ladies, Sarah and Linda, are clearing the place out after the… Continue Reading
Small Black is an American indie band from Brooklyn, New York. After releasing the critically acclaimed Small Black EP, the band signed to Jagjaguwar to release their debut full length, New Chain (2010). Their second full length, Limits of Desire was released in May 2013, with the single “No Stranger” a mainstay… Continue Reading
Beetlejuice is a 1988 American comedy-fantasy film directed by Tim Burton. The plot revolves around a recently deceased young couple (Alec Baldwin and Geena Davis) who become ghosts haunting their former home, and an obnoxious, devious ghost named Betelgeuse (pronounced “Beetlejuice”, portrayed by Michael Keaton) from the Netherworld… Continue Reading
Seth Haley (known by his stage name Com Truise) is an American electronic musician from Oneida, New York. His Com Truise stage name is a spoonerism of the name of American actor Tom Cruise. Originally an art director, he turned in his resignation prior to his first release as Com Truise. Prior to that,… Continue Reading
Funny Games is a 2007 psychological thriller film written and directed by Michael Haneke, and a remake of his own 1997 film Funny Games, which was entered into the 1997 Cannes Film Festival.. The plot of the film involves two young men who hold a family hostage and torture them with sadistic games. Naomi Watts, Tim… Continue Reading
Youth lagoon was the stage name of the Boise, Idaho-based American musician Trevor Powers, active as Youth Lagoon from 2010-2016. His music was described as net-psychedelia, and included elements of Americana and experimental. Youth Lagoon’s debut album, The Year of Hibernation, was released in 2011, based on minimalism and hypnotic ambience… Continue Reading
Hot Seat is a coming-of-age story written and directed by Anna Kerrigan, that blends diverse genres in a unusually thoughtful way. Set at a birthday party populated by teens from an all-female school, the film plays with “Mean Girls” social hierarchies… Continue Reading
Growth is a short film by Sil van der Woerd, that portrays the rise and downfall of a family over the course of 20 years, in one living room, in a single shot. Rather than attempting to execute a complicated single-take in… Continue Reading
I Spit on Your Grave is a 1978 American rape-and-revenge exploitation horror film written, directed, produced and edited by Meir Zarchi. It tells the story of Jennifer Hills (Camille Keaton), a Manhattan writer whose summer vacation in a riverside cabin goes tumultuous when a group of five men gang… Continue Reading
The 8min short film focuses on writer/director/star Frankie Shaw as Bridgette Bird, a single mom of a young son. After being alarmed by an online article detailing how the bodies of new moms change, she hits up Dan (Thomas Middleditch), an… Continue Reading
Нелюбовь (Loveless in the english version) is a 2017 Russian drama film directed by Andrey Zvyagintsev. The story concerns two separated parents living apart whose affections are long forgotten and whose relationship has become loveless. They are temporarily brought together after their only… Continue Reading
In Willy Berliner’s I’m in Here, a man finds a family of strangers in his house and has an extremely difficult time asking them to leave. Don (Dave Hanson), sees a family of strangers moving into his house claiming to have bought it.… Continue Reading
MGMT (pronounced “Management”) are a genre-bending psychedelic synth-pop duo, formed in 2002 at Wesleyan University. Originally with Cantora Records, they signed with Columbia and RED Ink in 2006 and released their debut album Oracular Spectacular the next year. After the release of Oracular Spectacular, Congratulations was released on 2010. In 2011 they began work… Continue Reading
The War of the Roses is a 1989 American black comedy film based upon the 1981 novel of the same name by Warren Adler. The film follows a wealthy couple with a seemingly perfect marriage. When their marriage begins to fall apart, material possessions become the center… Continue Reading
Blood And Water is a short film by writer/director Brian Blum, about how an Olympic diver’s relationship with his mother deteriorates as he fails to bounce back from a horrific training accident. It doesn’t innovate much on a somehow common sport… Continue Reading
Bodies of Water is a band from the Highland Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, signed to independent record label Secretly Canadian. The core group consists of married couple David and Meredith Metcalf. However, the band often plays LA shows with five or more additional… Continue Reading
Vulfpeck is an American funk group founded in 2011. The band members attended University of Michigan’s music school. They first came together as a rhythm section for a performance at the Duderstadt Center, a university facility that houses an arts library and other resources. After reading an interview with… Continue Reading
Poltergeist is a 1982 American supernatural horror film about a family whose home is invaded by malevolent ghosts that abduct the family’s younger daughter. It was directed by Tobe Hooper and Steven Spielberg wrote and produced, but had a clause in his contract to prevent him from directing another… Continue Reading
Kollektivet (The Commune in the english version) is a 2016 Danish drama film. An emotional and intensely focused lead performance from Trine Dyrholm carries this movie from Danish director and Dogme 95 veteran Thomas Vinterberg, shot on HD digital video. The setting is an… Continue Reading
Directed and written by Christopher Winterbauer, Break Down is a low-key, darkly comic, but also poignant take on a couple who has reached the end of their path together. The short film genius is how it merges so many disparate tones. It’s… Continue Reading
We often think of houses as strong, solid permanent things. In fact they can be weak, fragile and mobile. ‘Home’ explores the idea of what makes a house a home. A beautifully photographed minimalist short film documentary directed by Thomas… Continue Reading
What’s Eating Gilbert Grape is a 1993 American drama film directed by Lasse Hallström and starring Johnny Depp, Juliette Lewis, Darlene Cates and Leonardo DiCaprio. The film follows 24-year-old Gilbert (Depp), a grocery store clerk caring for his morbidly obese… Continue Reading
Sam’s perfectly polished world is upended when Georgina goes missing. Whilst everyone acts like nothing has happened Sam drifts back into his memories of Georgina and realises he may know more than he wants to remember. Volume is a 2012 short film directed by… Continue Reading
Blue Jay is a drama romance film directed by Alex Lehmann in his fictional feature debut, from a screenplay by Mark Duplass. It stars Duplass and Sarah Paulson. The film was financed by Netflix without the company even seeing a script. Instead, Duplass wrote a 10-page outline that allowed for… Continue Reading
What if a wedding didn’t promise a new beginning but rather an ugly detour? That’s the core of Haroula Rose’s latest short film Wedding Dress, which follows the burgeoning relationship between two strangers who meet by chance. The film follows Michael (Joshua… Continue Reading
Stephan Tempier’s farcical Boredom stars Adrien Brody as a forty-year-old man-child who refuses to grow up or move out of his parent’s house. Each year, Spacey and co. along with Jameson’s First shot, recruit an actor (past years have included Willem Dafoe, Uma Thurman & Spacey… Continue Reading
Ich seh, Ich seh (Goodnight Mummy in the english version) is a 2014 Austrian horror film based on capgras syndrome of identical twin boys. After undergoing a cosmetic facial surgery, a woman (Susanne Wuest) comes back home to her modern, isolated lakeside house and to her… Continue Reading
When a woman is being called in the middle of the night, she finds out that it’s not her husband laying next to her. An award winning short film directed by Drew Daywalt.
Social media films are becoming a genre of their own these days, and suspenseful horror thrillers seem to be the preferred outcome of the genre. In this highly effective horror short film, Alexia, Franco’s ex-girlfriend, has been deceased for some time,… Continue Reading
Home is a short film starring Maggie Gyllenhaal as a homeless person whose pride won’t let her accept help. Written and directed by Kat Wood, Home is one of the winners of the Jameson First Shot 2016 in partnership with… Continue Reading
When Jen’s son disappears in a game of hide-and-go seek, she unwittingly embarks on a journey through time in order to find him. Starring Sarah Burns and directed by Graham Parkes, the short film was premiered at South By Southwest in… Continue Reading
Jet is an unfortunate man whose best-laid plans to kill himself are foiled by a little girl. Caught up in the middle of a disturbing crime, will he be able to save the little girl’s life, and his own, or… Continue Reading
After hearing he has a terminal illness, he is bent on dying as extravagantly as money can buy. Which is to say: very extravagantly. Glenn Paton’s dark comedy short film explores the relationship of the 1% with their inevitable demise.… Continue Reading
A short film drama from Australian filmmaker Denie Pentecost that was nominated for a Palm d’Or; Sexy Thing is the story of a young boy who escapes his reality by immersing himself in a watery version of the world. With no dialogue apart from an… Continue Reading
Surface of Atlantic is an indie band from Montreal, Canada, who’s music is a blend of folk, cinematic ambiances and indie rock. The band has been compared in the past to Pink Floyd, Beck and Sigur Ros for their experimental… Continue Reading