Bob looks at a selection of the shorts and features of Seattle’s yearly BoneBat Comedy of Horrors Film Festival.
Category Archives: A+ Indie
Secret Mall Apartment [2025] [Music Box Films Blu-Ray]
Eight artists in Providence, Rhode Island, set up a secret apartment at a mall in Jeremy Workman’s aptly titled Secret Mall Apartment, produced and released on physical media by Music Box Films on November 18.
Big Rock Burning (2025)
The Los Angeles County wildfires last January was one of the most devasting catastrophes to hit California, and according to David Goldblum’s documentary short on the burning of the Big Rock community within Malibu it would have been completely preventable if local authorities possessed brains and competence.
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October 7: Bearing Witness to the Massacre (2025)
The massacre perpetrated by Hamas against Israeli civilians on October 7, 2023, resulted in the deaths of approximately 1,200 people and the kidnapping of over 250 men, women, and children – the worst single assault on Jews since the Holocaust.
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Last Man Standing: The Chronicles of Myron Sugerman (2023)
Director Jonny Caplan’s documentary is probably one of the most outstanding and entertaining crime documentaries of the year. Despite its short run time, he manages to unfold the story of a real underdog hero and anti-establishment mobster whose entire life was spent virtually kicking societal status quos in the ass. “Last Man Standing” is a True Crime Feature Documentary on the life of Myron Sugerman, son of Barney Sugerman, a partner of leading US mobster Meyer Lansky.
American Daydream (2024)
Where is the American dream bred? In the heart or in the head? Director-Writer Ziyu Luo’s “American Daydream” is a classic ode to the idea of the American dream and our pursuit of it. Is the “American Dream” an unreachable goal, or something that we each have within us, personally? Recently having its world premiere at the HollyShorts Film Festival, “American Daydream” is a brilliant beautiful short drama comedy that explores ideas about immigration, assimilation and Americanization.
And Now I Lay Me Down (2024)
I really have to give it to Jane Kaczmarek who stars in “And Now I Lay Me Down.” She really is a marvel in what is a pretty gut wrenching movie that approaches a serious topic with a tongue in cheek. Kaczmarek is essentially the only cast member in the entirety of Rani DeMuth’s short drama comedy and commands a lot of the screen with such an immense powerful and intense sadness.