Back in June during the 2026 Tribeca Festival, we had the chance to watch a powerful, female-led short, “Kaya.” Written…
Author: Mark Ziobro
Mark Ziobro
Mark is a lifetime film lover and founder and Chief Editor of The Movie Buff. His favorite genres are horror, drama, and independent. He misses movie rental stores and is always on the lookout for unsung movies to experience.
Over Ryan Murphy’s first two “Monster” installments, his MO focused on thematics. There were creative liberties in both “The Jeffery Dahmer Story”…
PRESS RELEASE—Drew Moerlein of Moerlein Entertainment (“V/H/S”) and Nick Mauldin (“You’re Not There”) are bringing a new half-hour dramedy pilot to life with “High Functioning.”…
The somber “The Last Goodnight” shows the range of Writer/Director Rob Levinson’s storytelling. His last short I reviewed, “Ramirez,” centered on a…
Back in 2013 I reviewed Andrzej Bartkowiak’s “Doom” and gave it a failing grade. Growing up in the ‘90s on the MS-DOS version of…
“Guns Akimbo” isn’t billed as a horror movie, but it should be. Its premise alone—an online troll targets the wrong…
Andrew Niccol knows how to write dystopian films. And direct them. In his first, “GATTACA,” he examined the human spirit amidst…
Watching this film again over the weekend—and despite its lead’s zany, comic excessiveness—I was struck with how astute a divorce…
“Only Once” is a powerful indie short we reviewed earlier this week, dealing with themes of trauma, neglect, and giving…
“We Want the Virus” is the latest film from Paul Santoli and A 516 Productions. Santoli’s previous effort, “Because of Mika,” was a…