Main Image: Dylan Sprouse and Denny Love in The Duel, Lionsgate/Grindstone Ever been challenged to a duel? That’s exactly what happens to Dylan Sprouse’s character Colin in The Duel directed by Justin Matthews and Luke Spencer Roberts. When Colin’s best friend Woody (Callan McAuliffe) finds out that Colin...

“The Ice Cream Man,” a new short starring Noah Emmerich as Ernst Cahn, a little-known hero of Jewish resistance to the Nazis, may not seem like the most obvious candidate to premiere at Indianapolis’ Indy Shorts. But it has some of the strongest Indiana ties in this year’s edition of the beloved film festival. In...

What happens when you die is a question almost every human has asked, and the Finnish short film “Bright White Light,” now playing at Indianapolis’ Indy Shorts film festival, may have some reassuring answers. Directors Henna Välkky and Eesu Lehtola sought out stories of people who have surived near-death experiences,...

Costume Designer Allison Choi Braun had to have lots of multiples on hand for her costumes in “Zits,” an upcoming body horror short from David Bornstein. That’s because they often got covered in goo from the main character’s exploding pimples. The short follows Sandy (Keilah Harris), who meets a mysterious older woman...

James Mangold at the Japan premiere of Logan in 2017. Wikimedia Commons, Dick Thomas Johnson from Tokyo, Japan Director James Mangold knows fans were hoping that Joaquin Phoenix would reprise his role as Johnny Cash from 2005’s Walk The Line in his new Bob Dylan movie A Complete Unknown. But he’s not interested in multiverses....

(Spoiler warning: The following reveals key plot points about “Syncope,” a film by Linus von Stumberg now playing at Indy Shorts.) Linus von Stumberg was a dancer-choreographer before he became an actor-filmmaker, and he brings all those experiences to “Syncope,” a striking short that begins with dancers struggling...