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Max (Max Azulay) is about to start his first week of teaching health at Argyle High School when he discovers he has a rare venereal disease. Gunderson’s, the disease, has only one symptom – a twitch. Gunderson’s is a comedy that takes an absurd premise and then plays it completely straight. The result is...
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Christopher Di Nunzio is a writer/director well worth keeping track of. I have seen two of his films, Livestock and Her Heart Still Beats and both reveal a director with a strong – and strengthening – body of work behind him. He his currently raising funds for his next film, A Life Not to...
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I mentioned Hitman 101, a twelve episode web series, earlier this year and have been following the series since. All good things come to an end, though, and this series finished at the end of February and is now available to be watched in a single sitting. It’s worth taking a look at. The...
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When I saw Familiar, I knew very little about the film and I do think this is the best way to see it initially. Writer/director Richard Powell does an impressive job of revealing just enough to keep you hooked throughout, and holding back just enough to keep you uncertain as to exactly where this...
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Jeremiah Kipp is a director that has proved to be very popular on these pages. His films are consistently powerful, original and well worth watching. His latest film, a collaboration with the Mandragoras Art Space is no exception. According to Kipp: I had become interested in making low-tech horror movies with special effects made...
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Horton Bucks (Tyler Messner) is a drifter. He has floated from place to place, and from job to job, living from day to day and accumulating nothing. When the death of his mother brings him back to the small rural town in which he grew up, it is not particularly surprising that the journey...
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The Misogynist isn’t really a film that fits its title. It is much more a film about frustrated ambition which is no bad thing in itself but does mean that the end result is a drama I didn’t expect. The film centres on Harlan (Pascal Yen-Pfister), a photographer who has run out of inspiration....
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Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe’s The Tell-Tale Heart, Her Heart Still Beats manages to capture the feel of Poe while moving the story to a more contemporary setting. The film centres on Ed Gallo (Fiore Leo). When his wife, Sarah (Leighsa Burgin) returns early from work, Ed becomes convinced that there is something wrong...
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In 2005, Sam “Barzan” Malkandi, an Iraqi immigrant and family man, was working toward a piece of the American Dream in a Seattle suburb. But a footnote in the 9/11 Commission Report, connecting him to a high-level Al-Qaeda operative, changed everything. After five years of detention and multiple appeals he was deported back to...
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It was way back in 2007 that I first heard about Iron Sky, and have been following this film ever since. And now that the film is finally finished, and due to première at this year’s Berlinale, a theatrical trailer has been released online. It’s superb. In the last moments of World War II,...
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