Documentary Leads a Surprisingly Uneven Field
The Academy Awards short film categories can vary wildly from year to year. Some years these categories sp...
The Director of the Festival Hit THE REBRAND
Kaye Adelaide’s The Rebrand is a film that sneaks up on you. At first glance, it plays like a comedy — awkw...
Bloody Mary / Dry January / Full Moon Glory Hole / Izzy / How to Stay Awake
Below is a smattering of capsule reviews of some of the finest short films that ...
Coverage from Salem Horror Festival 8
DIRECTED BY KAYE ADELAIDE/2025
The Rebrand is a horror-comedy — but unlike most horror-comedies, it’s actually ...
So Fades The Light / Head Like A Hole / Pater Noster And The Mission Of Light
Below is a smattering of capsule reviews of select films playing at the 2025 S...
Life, Death and the Mind of Cronenberg
DIRECTED BY DAVID CRONENBERG/2025
There’s something about David Cronenberg’s films that has always struck me a...
The Live Action Short Film Nominees are...
The organization SHORTS (home of ShortsTV) has brought this year’s batch of Oscar nominated Live Action, Docu...
The 2025 Oscars will get Animated Shortly…
The organization SHORTS (home of ShortsTV) has brought this year’s batch of 2025's Oscar nominated Live Actio...
Paul has written about politics and baseball for other outlets in the past. Besides cinema, he cites baseball, music and fitness as other key passions in his life. His reviews are humorous and sometimes cutting, aiming to get at central themes of any given movie. For him, the value of film lies in the way the art form can use plot, vision and sound to create stories of flawed, relatable people that are riveting and allegories for deeper things.
