Video game to movie adaptation is a hard genre to master. Filmmakers run the risk of making the material either…
Author: Mark Ziobro
Mark Ziobro
Mark is a New York based film critic and founder and Managing Editor of The Movie Buff. He has contributed film reviews to websites such as Movie-Blogger and Filmotomy, as well as local, independent print news medium. He is a lifelong lover of cinema, his favorite genres being drama, horror, and independent. Follow Mark @The_Movie_Buff on Twitter for all site news.
For ‘Earth Day’ week, we at The Movie Buff are covering a few disaster-related films. And why not? Respecting the…
“The Intimate Touch” is an independent short written and directed by Ariel McMillion and Michael Støen. At 19 minutes, it…
“Getting It” is a good movie. It’s the debut feature from Tom Heard, who also wrote and starred in the…
Over the course of the 2021 SXSW Film Festival, I had the chance to become aquatinted with many films from…
The 2021 SXSW Film Festival, although forced virtual due to the Covid-19 pandemic, brought many interesting documentaries, introducing topics that…
I was lucky enough to catch a screening of “The Mohel,” a short film written and directed by Charles Wahl…
I’ve spent four days of the festival examining the various shorts programs at SXSW and have been decidedly pleased with…
Some of the best films use illusory concepts that hint at deeper meaning rather than giving audiences everything they want…
So far at this year’s SXSW—held virtually due to Covid—the various shorts competitions have shown some wonderful and visually appealing…