At the centre, or is it the outer periphery, of the intricately constructed universe in The Wheel Of Heaven is an ongoing conversation between actress Kali Russell and director Joe Badon. Badon and his co-writer Jason Kruppa have scripted a rape scene involving Russell’s character Purity which Russell would prefer to see written out of…
“So Joe, I have a question,” says actress Kali Russell at the beginning of The Blood of the Dinosaurs, sitting on a sofa besides the film’s director and (with Jason Kruppa) co-writer Joe Badon. “What the hell is your movie about?” “We want to talk about from beginning?” asks Badon, to which Russell replies, “Yeah,…
Like his feature debut The God Inside My Ear (2017), director/producer Joe Badon’s Sister Tempest (which Badon also co-wrote and co-scored with Jason Kruppa) is a delirious psychodrama in which a woman’s trauma-tinged descent into madness and self-knowledge plays out like multiple overlapping movies in different genres. “I, Anne Hutchinson, hereby promise you that I…