“A Grand Night for Singing” Is an Elegant Night Out
Photos by RyLo Media Design, Ryan C. Loyd SLO REP's creative presentation of a selection of songs from Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals does more than offer up a couple…
Cuesta’s “Spring Awakening” Pushes Limits
“Ten minutes ago, you could see the entire horizon . . . now only the dusk.” So says Moritz, a teenage student full of potential in a German boys' school…
SLOIFF Review: “Sender”
Photo by Gemma Doll-Grossman Disturbing, Compelling, and Engaging Russell Goldman’s new film Sender plays out as a confusing psychological thriller that takes viewers on a journey through the world of…
Short Fiction: The Banks of Noon
Photo by Lance Anderson The times I remember us throwing Smiley out the hatch on that plane always come two different ways. In the first, we all heave to…
Cambria Film Fest: “A Second Life”
“You have to always be drunk. That’s all there is to it. Not to feel the horrible burden of time that breaks your back and bends you to the earth.…
Cambria Film Fest: “Whisper My Name”
The Cambria Film Festival is excited to premiere its first-ever Iranian film: Whisper My Name. Director Rasoul Sadrameli (The Night) gives us an engaging story about a fragmented family and…
Cambria Film Fest: “Seems Like Love”
“I love when something beautiful comes from something simple.” If you see one film at the Cambria Film Festival this year, make it Seems Like Love. When you consider Russian…
Zhao’s “Hamnet” Pays Homage to “Hamlet”
Photos by Agata Grzybowska When we think of William Shakespeare, we imagine the playwright, the man from Stratford Upon Avon, the man whose words arguably changed the world. They…
“Bugonia” Critiques Savage State of Humanity
One of my professors once told us there had been three major shocks to the human race: Copernicus shattered our fantasy by telling us that we are not at the…
“Smashing Machine” Is a Contender
“Backward I see in my own days where I sweated through fog with linguists and contenders.” — Walt Whitman ("The Poet of Prizefighters") Audiences love stories about fighters, because the…