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Comedy, Drama, Western • 2025 • 65 min
Can't Kill A Cowboy (2025)
Can't Kill A Cowboy (2025)
Overview
A Case of the Everydays presents Narrative Shorts Program #7 from the 2025 Charlotte Film Festival, featuring eight narrative short films by directors including Anton Sinitsyn, Jordan Hahn, and Dominic Fogarty. The anthology explores collisions of emotion and perception, blurring lines between reality and illusion through striking visuals and human stories.
Starring Cast
Heath Bray • Brandon Kidd • Todd Whipple
Rating & Dimensions
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Leans Progressive
Political: Center
Diversity: Moderate
LGBTQ: Positive
Family Values: Mixed
Viewer Rating
10.0
Overview
A Case of the Everydays presents Narrative Shorts Program #7 from the 2025 Charlotte Film Festival, featuring eight narrative short films by directors including Anton Sinitsyn, Jordan Hahn, and Dominic Fogarty. The anthology explores collisions of emotion and perception, blurring lines between reality and illusion through striking visuals and human stories.
Starring Cast
Heath Bray • Brandon Kidd • Todd Whipple
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Leans Progressive
Primary
Political: Center
Confidence: Medium
This collection of narrative shorts delves into individual emotional and perceptual conflicts, presenting human experiences without endorsing specific political ideologies. The absence of overt ideological framing in the stories' resolutions keeps the overall perspective balanced and apolitical.
Diversity: Moderate
Confidence: High
The shorts program features visible diversity in its casts, with actors from Hispanic, mixed-race, transgender, and possibly Black backgrounds appearing across multiple films. Narratives explore personal psychological struggles without centering critiques of traditional identities or explicit equity themes.
Secondary
LGBTQ: Positive
Confidence: Medium
One short in the program, Demonboy, centers on a queer thriller narrative involving a man's perilous obsession with another man online. Screened at LGBTQ+ festivals and awarded best short, it presents queer identity with complexity amid digital-age tensions, without endorsing stereotypes or degradation.
Family Values: Mixed
Confidence: High
Shorts in the program present family relationships through lenses of deception, extreme caregiving, and abuse, offering mixed portrayals that neither celebrate traditional structures nor advocate progressive alternatives. The limited family content across the collection results in a neutral stance on family norms.
Trans: N/A
Confidence: Low
This anthology of narrative shorts contains no transgender characters or themes across its eight films, which explore topics like overwork, competition, family survival, psychological horror, obsession, anxiety, and surreal interrogations.
Female Combat: N/R
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
Gender Swap: No
Confidence: Low
This shorts program features eight original narrative films depicting newly created characters in contemporary or fictional settings, with no adaptations, biopics, or legacy roles that involve gender changes from established sources.
Race Swap: No
Confidence: Low
The program features eight original narrative short films, none of which are adaptations, biopics, or based on source material with established characters or historical figures. All characters appear newly created for these stories, precluding any race swaps.
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