Slate Reel: Sweet Dreams (2008)
If you’ve bothered to browse through your May 2013 dashboard, you will find there a blurb about a short film called Sweet Dreams. It’s an animated short that gives you just the right dose of sweet and veggies that will definitely hit the spot. If you’ve been smacking your brain and keyboard on where you … Read more
Slate Reel: Curfew (2012)
Our film feature for this month (take a peek at your April dashboard!), Brink, is a marvelous short film by Shawn Christensen. It’s a unique end-of -days film seen through the eyes of Justin who has one last confession to make before all is lost. He needs to risk finding his best friend and tell … Read more
Slate Reel: The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore (2011)
This particular film is very close to the heart of one of my Slate team members, and since we are in the month of gush and goo-goo romanticism, let me, only this one time, be all sentimental about it. So be warned, you’re in for an emotional monologue. According to my team member, who I … Read more
Slate Reel: Lucas (1986)
Something light and feel-good for this month – Lucas is a film most would not consider as blockbuster, but it certainly has become sort of a minor cult classic for teen movies. Perhaps because of its small unique shifts of conventional teen movie stereotypes or how many of its characters became huge stars; but no … Read more
Slate Reel: Balance (animated short)
Before February ends, here’s a treat to honor our Attack the Addiction month. One of the classics, Balance (this month’s antidote!), won the Oscar for Animated Short Film in 1989. Directed and produced by German twin brothers Wolfgang and Christoph Lauenstein, it is simple and unpretty, yet affectively powerful. Some may find it a bit … Read more
