Thomas Patchell

The fairy tale is a tricky genre for viewers and filmmakers. The type most familiar to contemporary audiences comes through a Disney Studios shaping mechanism: lovable, cleaned up, and stylized.…

The elements that make a romantic relationship last have been debated since the dawn of human mating and the beginnings of language. Celine Song’s second feature film, Materialists, takes up…

The Phoenician Scheme: the story of a father and daughter’s love—with complimentary hand grenades! The latest and very ambitious offering from director and auteur Wes Anderson seems to have confused…

Traven Marks and Liz Lucas with Verdant Studio, Molly Clark with Cal Poly Arts, and Thomas Patchell with SLO Review (photo by Raoul Wise)   The San Luis Obispo International…

The San Luis Obispo International Film Festival has given SLO Review the opportunity to preview some of the narrative and documentary films on the festival's April 24-29, 2025 program schedule.…

Having to work at a terrible job out of desperation—a job you hate that is a daily kind of humiliation and destruction of body and spirit—seems to be so common…

"Late Nite Cinema" panelists Greg Young, Clinton Cornwell, Lily Kennedy, J.M. Kallet   Friday night, February 7, at the recently concluded Cambria Film Festival, marked the first-ever late-night block of…

The awards ceremony Saturday night at the 2025 Cambria Film Festival was intense and inspiring, with filmmakers, staff, volunteers, judges, and sponsors in attendance. The Cambria Center for the Arts…

Larry Morgan talks with Sy Rosen at the Cambria Film Festival's opening night gala. The 2025 Cambria Film Festival is honoring Sy Rosen, a producer and writer living in Los Angeles who…

The Cambria Film Festival, running February 5-9, has given SLO Review the opportunity to preview many of the more than 80 full-length and short films that make up its 2025…