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Film Review: Upstairs (short film) (2011)

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: After a six-year relationship with his girlfriend Rie, Jonas decides take a stab at the freedom of single life, but is confronted with a world filled with lonely, emotionless and sex-fixated individuals. An infernal racket from the upstairs neighbour Frank forces him to consider the possibility that noise can come from anywhere, even from the inside. …

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Film Review: Mute (short film) (2016)

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Mute, which follows a tongue-chopping madman chasing three kids who stumble into his neck of the woods REVIEW: More short films, kiddies! Today we have MUTE, written and directed by A Color Green (yea, I’m not making that up…..that is, in fact, the person’s name as listed). This is the directorial debut for A Color Green, …

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Film Review: Blood and Carpet (2015)

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: In the late 1960s there were no CCTV or crime scene DNA testing, but disposing of a dead body was still bloody murder. REVIEW: I love period films, especially when the filmmaker gets it right. It’s difficult to create another era. The more recent the era, the more difficult the task. BLOOD AND CARPET takes place …

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Film Review: The Wild Hunt (2009)

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A medieval reenactment game turns into a Shakespearean tragedy when a non-player crashes the event to win back his girlfriend. REVIEW: This is a different film from the kind I usually get, and I’m finding it difficult to try and explain it. There are three seperate stories going on at the same time. Each runs parallel …

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Film Review: The Phantom of Regular Size (short film) (1986)

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A man gradually transforms into a robotic, metal-encrusted monster. REVIEW: More short films, kiddies! And I’m really excited about this one. Today we have Futsû saizu no kaijin (The Phantom of Regular Size), a film from 1986 written and directed by Shin’ya Tsukamoto. Some of you out there may recognize the director’s name. That’s because he …

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Film Review: The Knock (short film)

Rate This Movie REVIEW: More short films, kiddies! Today we have THE KNOCK, directed by Andrew P. The film features a young girl (actor not credited) going about normal bathroom things as if to start her day. Then she starts to hear a knocking, but can’t figure out where its coming from. She does find the source eventually, but that’s …

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