Category: Independent
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Independent Film Review – God’s Soldier
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I don’t know if there’s some sort of tax exemption scheme which means it is cheaper to shoot in South East Asia than anywhere else but this is the second lower budget film set and shot in Thailand I’ve seen this week. I was over there in the nineties and it was nice to see…
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Independent Film Review – High Rollers
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You have to wonder what percentage of the budget for High Rollers was spent on John Travolta. I’m guessing a fairly sizeable chunk. Having said that, it was worth it! I wouldn’t say that I was a huge fan of Mr Travolta but I have seen a fair few of his films and enjoyed them…
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Independent Film Review – Last Resort
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A fairly modern trope of action films, the one man army is, usually, a heavily armed and well-trained combatant able to face numerous enemies alone and oftentimes facing multiple opponents. I say fairly modern because, to my mind, the one man army concept dates back to the sixties and, to me, the sixties is relatively…
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Independent Film Review – Womb
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There are a lot of slasher films out there. They can be said to date back to The System of Doctor Goudron directed by Maurice Tourneur. Tourneur used extreme violence (gouging out an eye, slitting a throat) to try and bring the audience out of the Théâtre du Grand-Guignol and into the cinema. Arguably though…
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Independent Film Review – Dimension Slip
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We’ve all heard of the multiverse theory, yes? If you’ve seen Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, or Everything Everywhere All at Once then you’ve been exposed to it even if only superficially. They postulated that there were many, many different universes all playing out different versions of realities formed…
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Independent Film Review – The Mill Killers
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I have said before that I’m English by birth but Welsh by heritage. My father was Welsh and summer holidays were spent in the mining village where my grandparents lived. Where I live now, and grew up, is less than 30km from North Wales. Well…as the crow flies. The River Dee actually doubles that distance!…
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Independent Film Review – Demise
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I’ll admit that I started watching Demise because I felt a commitment to review it rather than I was looking forward to seeing it. I also tend to be a bit of a softy when it comes to reviewing films; I’d rather not write a review at all than write a bad a review. So,…
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Independent Film Review – Dreamin’ Wild
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Who amongst us hasn’t had a dream of being a rock star? Those who are saying “not me” are probably only doing so because they dreamt of being a pop/country/reggae/folk/soul/jazz star. Music is one of those things that resonates with nearly all of us. It has such a wide range that it is almost impossible…
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Independent Film Review – Black Cab
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We all know Nick Frost. Maybe from his break out role in Spaced, it could be from his roles in the Cornetto Trilogy, or it could be from my personal favourite as DJ Dave in The Boat That Rocked. The thing is that nearly every part you remember Nick Frost playing, they are usually comedy…
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Independent Documentary Review – Ship Of Dreams: Titanic Movie Diaries
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What can I say…I love documentaries and I love films. So when I was offered a documentary about a film I jumped at it! Especially when the film in question is a genuine record breaker. The first film to make over a billion dollars, winner of 11 Oscars out of 14 nominations, and top of…
