The alien world they’ve miraculously created on a shoestring budget is rife with implications of an expansive human-populated universe that is inaccessible to their financially-strapped protagonist.

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I met with directors Chris Caldwell and Zeek Earl, of the new science-fiction feature Prospect (which I also reviewed), on Sunday, March 11, at the 2018 SXSW Film Festival. The film, an adaptation of a short film the team produced […]

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the movie makes a virtue of limited resources, its low-end aesthetic contributing to the rawness of its survival narrative. Prospect is no fool's gold, but the real stuff that dreams are made of.

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Though at first the emotional stakes may seem low, the more one thinks about the movie the more its profound truths resonate beyond its narrative limits.

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I met with writer/director Aaron Katz (Cold Weather) and two of his actors, John Cho (Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle) and Lola Kirke (Gone Girl), on Monday, March 13, 2017, at SXSW – the day after the movie’s premiere […]

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Aaron Katz's Gemini offers an enigmatic riddle of a mystery wrapped in the glossy trappings of Tinseltown, dense in layers like a Russian nesting doll.

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In “Hunter Gatherer,” a Man out of Time and Place Seeks a Home

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