Author: Rob Williams
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Indie Movie Review – Dark Asset
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Films featuring someone who has been “enhanced” are far from rare. They range from being almost completely replaced (Robocop), to just being reprogrammed (The Matrix), via chemical alteration both accidental (Lucy) and deliberate (The Bourne Legacy). And then again, there are whole swathes of films which have people getting a chip inserted into them; Kingman:…
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Indie Short Review – Gale: Stay Away from Oz
Wow! I am being spoiled recently with independent short films. A couple of weeks ago I got to see the marvellous To Fire You Come at Last and today it is Gale: Stay Away from Oz. The first email I got just had the title listed as Gale and I didn’t immediately make the connection…
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Indie Movie Review – Final Summer
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Last year there was a meme doing the rounds about Top Gun being top of the box office figures, Kate Bush being top of the charts, America and Russia were facing off in another cold war, and inflation was going through the roof. The punchline was along the lines of finding ourselves back in the…
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Indie Movie Review – Another Day To Live Through
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A lot of films claim to have a dream-like quality but, usually that just means that they are being exceptionally bizarre. People walking around with a rabbit’s head or wearing strange costumes while dancing through an alien landscape. Personally though, my dreams are much more mundane. Usually involving me pottering around and talking to random…
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Jurassic Park 30th Anniversary Screening
I really do enjoy this new thing of showing classic films in the cinema. Over the last few years I’ve seen Die Hard, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Superman, Cabaret, and others. Not to mention the annual Christmas Eve showing of It’s A Wonderful Life. Sometimes it brings back memories of seeing films when they first…
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Indie Movie Review – Mercy Falls
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You know how it is, you are following a well worn path, you take a wrong turn, and the next thing you know is you are totally lost. That’s the basis for many a “lost in the wilderness”/“slasher in the woods”/“oops, where’s the cabin” type film. The thing is that those sort of films are…
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RunPee Jurassic Park Hub
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in HubAh, dinosaurs! There’s something about them that all ages find fascinating. Toddlers to dodderers; there is a decent sized cohort in every age group. And within each age group there is a whole range of expertise. Some can identify them all; from Aardonyx to Zupaysaurus. Others struggle to tell a Brontosaurus from a Thesaurus.…
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Indie Movie Review – Minore
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It’s funny how, sometimes, you can see something and it reminds you of something totally different. In this case the thing I saw was the Anglo-Greek film Minore and it reminded me of something that resonates with me for a variety of reasons…Dylan Thomas’ Under Milk Wood. Why does an almost seventy year old radio…
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Indie Short Review – To Fire You Come At Last
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I’ll be honest and say from the start that there isn’t a great deal of chance that many people will get to see To Fire You Come At Last. Not because it is a bad film…it isn’t, but because it has two big strikes against it; it is an small budget independent film and it…
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Indie Movie Review – Piper
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As I’ve mentioned elsewhere, if you have a good story then you don’t just use it once! Whereas A Christmas Carol came from a novella written in 1843’s London, the story behind Piper dates back to the Middle Ages and from Hamelin, Germany when it was originally known as Der Rattenfänger von Hameln. In this…
