Quick Hits - October 2026
What a month!
What a month!
"Am I on trial for my beliefs?"
"I don't want any part of your fairy tale. I just want my brother."
It would appear that the New Hampshire Film Festival is going through an identity crisis. The 25-year-old, four-day festival in Portsmouth, NH was purchased by local music venue The Music Hall a couple years back, and its programming has been shifting ever since. Gone is the first
"I know it's weird. She's weird. She's really weird."
"No one gets through life without a few scars. That's being human."
"I'm not biased against tech because you're taking journalism jobs. I'm biased because you're doing such a bad job of it."
"Be truthful. Be free. Be happy."
Summer has come and gone, and now we stare down the barrel of festival season.
"It might not be macho, but my goal is to keep you alive."
"What are you doing here?"
"Stupid...fuckin'......monsters!"
New Releases
"I'll fix you before I fix your lock!"
New Releases
"He sees you in a way we could never see our fathers - as a god."
New Releases
"You wrote a masterpiece. Whether people know about it or not. That's forever."
Shorts
"Places within the mind echo as landscapes."
New Releases
"Listen...have you seen...a tiger?"
New Releases
"The ones we lost, to The Sickness, they do not rest. They haunt our dreams."
New Releases
"It is done."
Quick Hits
Summer blockbuster season draws to a close, and festival season is about to begin.
Pop Culture Maniacs
If you turned off the adaptation of Cocoon - One Summer of Girlhood before reaching the halfway point of its short, sixty minute runtime, you'd likely mistake it for Japanese military propaganda, which is unmistakably curdled by what comes after. Although the location, time period, and details of the
New Releases
"Of course I'm scared. You have to be scared to be brave."
New Releases
"You talk about it so academically. Camp Miasma wasn't about cultural depictions of monstrosity or gender trauma or any of that stuff. It was about two very simple things: flesh…and fluids."
New Releases
"That's what we do. We settle."