Reviews

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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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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Set entirely in an interrogation room, Boiling Point is a film that makes the most of its limited budget to deliver a genuinely tense thriller. The film is structured as a face off between detective, Owen Davis (Christopher Lee-Power) and his suspect, Paul Conners (Gavin Hodson). All is not quite right, however, as is...
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Frankie Ducane (Jessi Gotta) is a woman on a mission. When we meet her, she is searching for a man for reasons unexplained. Her search has evidently been a lengthy one and she is now tired, struggling to concentrate and clearly in need of a break. This is why she ends up sitting in...
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Shed opens with an Asian man (Sheng-Chien) tied to a chair. This unnamed victim has clearly been through a lot already and, as soon as we meet his skinhead tormentor (Paul D Morrison), it is painfully apparent that things are about to get a lot worse. As you would expect, the skinhead has a...
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Although Rage is consciously inspired Steven Spielberg’s Duel, writer/director Chris Witherspoon has very successfully moved beyond his initial inspiration to take the film in an entirely different direction. The direction the film takes is one that works very well indeed. We start in an Oregon suburb where we meet Dennis Twist (Rick Crawford), an...
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