“The Wizard of Oz” is a timeless story – a tale of a young girl’s desire to leave home for…
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.
Director Dovini Simon brings us an immature father’s coming of age story in the 2018 short “Maturing Youth.” That it…
Filmmaker Elliot Maguire accepts a lofty challenge with “The Ferryman” – to produce a full-length independent feature filmed exclusively on…
*Cliquez ici pour la version française “…a tradition, a Beaulieu family tradition…waving goodbye with any object that flies in the…
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At first glance, Gus Van Sant’s “Good Will Hunting” is about a young man of extreme intelligence caught between two…
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Spanning four years, from 2013-2017, Irish filmmaker Bertie Brosnan created a series of independent short films that he considers ‘artistic.’…
It’s curious and a bit droll that many films depicting individuals in the confines of witness protection occur toward these…