Calgary Underground Film Festival

The Calgary Underground Film Festival Has Been Postponed

PUBLISHED Mar 16, 2020

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to affect day-to-day life, yet another event has been postponed in the Calgary Underground Film Festival...

CUFF Review: 'Our Time Machine' Explores Art and Remembrance via Chinese Theatre

Directed by S. Leo Chiang and Yang Sun

PUBLISHED Dec 4, 2019

What makes a work worth remembering? Worth not only being experienced by audiences in its own time and place, but to be talked about after?...

CUFF Review: 'The Amazing Johnathan Documentary' Proves Meta Can Still Be Magic

Directed by Benjamin Berman

PUBLISHED Nov 27, 2019

Self-referential meta comedy has, for better or more likely worse, jumped its own shark in recent years, as breaking the fourth wall has be...

CUFF Review: 'Scream, Queen! My Nightmare on Elm Street' Is an Overdue Look at Homophobia in Horror

Directed by Tyler Jensen and Roman Chimienti

PUBLISHED Nov 11, 2019

A New Nightmare was director Wes Craven's big swing at revitalizing the Nightmare on Elm Street franchise. In the seventh film of the serie...

CUFF Review: 'Where in the Hell Is the Lavender House: The Longmont Potion Castle Story' Gets in the Way of its Prank Call Chronicle

Directed by David Hall and Thomas Rotenberg

PUBLISHED Nov 11, 2019

In one of many fan interviews peppered throughout Where in the Hell Is the Lavender House: The Longmont Potion Castle Story, it's observed...

CUFF Review: 'Foosballers' Is for Foosball Purists

Directed by Joe Heslinga

PUBLISHED Apr 30, 2019

In many bars where chatting with friends isn't enough, a table sport sometimes resides; it can also be found in many rumpus rooms across th...

CUFF Review: 'Mutant Blast' Is a Bad Movie and a Great Troma Release

Directed by Fernando Alle

PUBLISHED Apr 24, 2019

A soldier and her superhuman muscular man navigate a zombie mutant-filled city after a scientific experiment to create many superhuman sold...

CUFF Review: 'Who Let the Dogs Out' Raises Questions Without Answering the Most Important One

Directed by Ben Hodge

PUBLISHED Apr 23, 2019

Who Let the Dogs Out is a documentary about the ridiculous earworm "Who Let the Dogs Out" by the Baha Men, the popular song that has one qu...