Author: Rob Williams
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Independent Film Review – The Imposters
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Sometimes you’ll watch a film without realising that there is something different about it. For instance, if you started reading Gadsby by Ernest Vincent Wright I wonder how far you’d get into this 1939 novel before realising it is a lipogram. By that I mean it is 50,000 words long but nowhere does Wright use…
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Independent Film Review – #AMFAD: All My Friends Are Dead
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I’m probably the worst person to send this to. Firstly, I’m not a fan of horror films. Particularly not the slasher sub-genre. I saw most of Saw, the first half of Hostel, and a couple of Halloween and Nightmare on Elm Street offerings. I know that there are of plenty of perfectly nice people out…
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Independent Film Review – Overkill
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Within the first five minutes of Overkill, Taylor (Carol Kim) is brutally murdered in her home. She is stabbed many times by a man inside her room. The man was there to kill her…not to rob, kidnap, or assault her. He came with his own big, sharp knife and knew that there would be nobody…
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Independent Film Review – What We Find On The Road
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What is it about Americans and road movies? There are a few road films set in the UK but, given that it only takes about fifteen hours to drive from Land’s End to John o’Groats a British road trip is never going to be a marathon excursion. The USA is a much bigger beast though.…
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Independent Film Review – Holiday Twist
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Ah, Christmas films! I have a definite soft spot for them. As we’re just seeing off Halloween there’s nothing much to get excited about before the season of greetings, giddy glee, and gemütlichkeit gets under way. As a result it’ll do no harm to start getting in the festive spirit. Maybe I don’t need to…
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Independent Film Review – I’m Charlie Walker
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When is a true story not a true story? When the opening card says “Based on a true story” and the closing one says “All characters and events in this film, even those based on real individuals, are completely fictional.” So is I’m Charlie Walker a true story or not? Well…yes and no. The story…
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Independent Film Review – The Avenger
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I do like a puzzle. Admittedly I prefer when I know that I’m doing a puzzle rather than just not being 100% sure what’s going on. I started watching The Avenger “A British action, gritty, style ‘TAKEN’ set in London and LA based on a true story” as it describes itself. The story is, undeniably,…
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Independent Film Review – Dark Feathers: Dance of the Geisha
So…what do we have here then? I’ll be honest, after I’d watched Dark Feathers: Dance of the Geisha I still wasn’t really sure. The majority of the action appears to take place in a ballroom dancing/organised crime subset of the Japanese community in San Francisco. I know that ballroom dancing and organised crime don’t usually…
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Straight Up, No Twist
So many films rely on a last minute twist…M Knight Shyamalan built a career on exactly that. However Baz Luhrmann, in his Red Curtain trilogy, said that one of the basics was “that the audience knows how it will end when it begins”. Personally, I think “when it begins” is overstating things but within the…
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Film Review – The Critic
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Oh aren’t we meta! A wannabe film critic reviewing a film about a theatre critic! All that aside, I had a very pleasant daytime visit to the cinema with my good lady wife. We went along to see The Critic starring Ian McKellen and Gemma Arterton. It was a spur of the moment thing which…
