Category: Independent
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Independent Film Review – Saint Clare
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I think it’s fair to say that Saint Clare turned out to be something very different to what I thought it was going to be when I was first offered the viewing opportunity. I mean, the press release described it as…“Witness the rise of Saint Clare, a haunting, blood-soaked thriller that had audiences’ blood-pressure rising…
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Independent Film Review – Futra Days
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I’m a bit of geek…or nerd. I never know which is which. I was brought up in the house of a science fiction fan (my father) and have memories of time travel based going back to before Doctor Who! And I still like to watch the 1960 version of The Time Machine. As a result…
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Independent Film Review – Give Me A Word: The Collective Soul Story
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Over the years, decades probably, I’ve watched and enjoyed a lot of documentaries. I have a particular fondness for music and cinema documentaries; I love peeping behind the curtains to see how a scene was shot, a band was formed, a track laid down…that sort of thing. Obviously I have much more interest in bands/music/films…
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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,…
