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Naive, hamfisted, and amateurish indie sci-fi… but as hilarious as the clumsy, clichéd execution is, it still isn’t even worth it for the laughs. I’m “biast” (pro): big sci-fi fan

I’m “biast” (con): nothing

(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)

This is one of the most ridiculous movies I’ve ever seen. Oh, the premise potentially has promise — two grad students invent a mind-reading, thought-transmitting device in their garage — but the execution is, well… One word for it is naive. Another word: hamfisted. One more word : amateurish.

First-time writer-director Khalil Sullins appears to have little understanding of how to construct a plausible story, and his problems have nothing to do with his sci-fi ideas — even as out-there as the ones here are — and everything to do with crafting likable characters and not requiring them to behave in idiotic ways in order...

If only life stopped placing hurdles in their path, two heavily overqualified pals who study grad-school-level science in La might complete an intensive private project so dear to them that they have shoved everything and everyone else aside. In Listening, longtime BFFs David (Thomas Stroppel) and Ryan (a superb Artie Ahr) are on the brink of completing a computerized electronic device that pushes debate on human behavior far beyond nature/nurture. Their invention skips directly to what could be called neuroture, the control of thought and action by unmediated stimulation of unguarded neurons in the brain. Free will occupies the space between […]...

If only life stopped placing hurdles in their path, two heavily overqualified pals who study grad-school-level science in La might complete an intensive private project so dear to them that they have shoved everything and everyone else aside. In Listening, longtime BFFs David (Thomas Stroppel) and Ryan (a superb Artie Ahr) are on the brink of completing a computerized electronic device that pushes debate on human behavior far beyond nature/nurture. Their invention skips directly to what could be called neuroture, the control of thought and action by unmediated stimulation of unguarded neurons in the brain. Free will occupies the space between […]...

Do we really want to know what other people are thinking? Do we want anybody listening in on our thoughts? That possibility is explored in an incredible new, Independent thriller called Listening.

David (Thomas Stroppel) and Ryan (Artie Ahr) are graduate students at Cal Tech who are working on the very real possibility of translating human thoughts into computer language. Thus translated other people can “listen” in to our thoughts. They develop hardware and software with equipment borrowed from the University. Unknown to them a shadowy, secret Government agency (is there any other kind?) is working on the same idea.

David and Ryan are both desperately poor, they want their system to work in order to become tech millionaires, or least be able to pay their bills. David and his wife and daughter are due to be evicted, Ryan lives in an efficiency apartment with his Grandmother and has to...

Read More: Watch: Mind-Reading is Better (and More Dangerous) Than Sex in Exclusive 'Listening' Trailer Indiewire's Springboard column profiles up-and-comers in the film industry worthy of your attention. For his feature debut, filmmaker Khalil Sullins looked to the future -- but not too far. With his "Listening," Sullins imagines a world where technology has allowed people to communicate via telepathy, though the results are far from ideal. Although the idea behind "Listening" is pretty wild, it turns out that it's not that far removed from where existing technology is currently heading.  The film stars Thomas Stroppel, Artie Ahr and Amber Marie Bollinger as penniless grad students who, quite surprisingly, invent an advanced technology that facilitates telepathy. What they don't know is that they're not the only people working on such advances, and when their discovery is taken by a shady government agency, they're forced to contend with their.

With a machine that can transmit and read thoughts, it’ll be dangerous if it falls into the wrong hands.

“Listening” is currently playing in a few film festival circuits right now. This exciting sci-fi thriller is about a couple of young scientists who invented a break-through mind-reading technology that a mysterious government agency wants for their own usage.

It is the directorial debut for Khalil Sullins. It stars Thomas Stroppel, Artie Ahr, Amber Marie Bollinger and Steve Hanks.

Latino-Review had an exclusive phone interview with the entire cast of the film when it premiered last month during the Woodstock Film Festival. We discussed several things about the technology, research and the entire chemistry of the cast and crew during the production.

“Listening” is showing during the St. Louis International Film Festival this weekend. It will also be playing at the Anchorage International Film Festival next month.

Read the interview...

Listening screens at 9:35 on Friday, November 21st at the Tivoli Theater as part of the St. Louis International Film Festival. Ticket information can be found Here

In the new science fiction film Listening, graduate students David (Thomas Stroppel), Ryan (Artie Ahr), and Jordan (Amber Marie Bollinger) are trying to harness the power of the human mind. Broke and struggling to support their families, they spend all of their time in a garage lab full of stolen equipment, hoping to invent a means of human telepathy and thus solve their problems. But when the trio makes a breakthrough, the discovery proves anything but a boon. Instead, their cutting-edge technology quickly opens a Pandora’s box of new dangers. Secrets and betrayals boil to the surface as the technology falls into the wrong hands, and the team soon finds itself working for an underground government agency with treacherous plans. With no one left to trust,...

Two college scientists manage to harness the power of the human mind by reading thoughts with a machine. But, forces unknown want that technology.

“Listening” is the directorial debut for Khalil Sullins and stars Thomas Stroppel and Artie Ahr as the best friends inventing this cutting-edge technology.

Here’s the synopsis:

David (Thomas Stroppel) and Ryan (Artie Ahr) hope inventing telepathy will solve all their problems, but the bleeding-edge technology opens a Pandora’s Box of new dangers, especially when it falls into the wrong hands. In a color-saturated vision of present-day science fiction, friends are forced against each other in a life-or-death battle over not only the privacy of our minds, but the future of human free will itself.

Latino-Review had an exclusive phone interview with Sullins on his film. We talked about the challenges on this psychological indie thriller and the real technologies and theories behind it.

“Listening...

It’s an invention that will alter the neuroscience landscape to read our minds. And no doubt, the government wants it.

The indie film “Listening” is a great sci-fi thriller from the mind of director Khalil Sullins. It will have its world premiere at the Woodstock Film Festival on October 16 at 9:30 p.m. in the Hudson Valley region.

The cast includes Thomas Stroppel, Artie Ahr, Amber Marie Bollinger, Christine Haeberman, Steve Hanks and Arn Chorn-Pond.

Here’s the film synopsis:

David and Ryan are trying to harness the power of the human mind... and failing. They’re both broke and struggle to support their families, but spend all of their time in a garage-lab full of stolen equipment, hoping that inventing telepathy will solve all their problems. After they meet Jordan, a smart and seductive new classmate, they make a breakthrough that changes everything. But the bleeding-edge technology opens...