Category: Independent
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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…
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Independent Film Review – Don’t Turn Out The Lights
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When you have a film involving a group of friends in peril there are a few other thins that need to be considered. Firstly, what do we think of this group? Are they likeable, entertaining, interesting…in fact, do they have any redeeming characteristics? If they aren’t immediately likeable, do they have the scope and range…
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Independent Documentary Review – Like Tears In Rain
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Ah…coincidence. A few days ago I saw a T-shirt which featured a graphic of a man with his head lowered in a torrential rain storm. Under the graphic is the simple phrase Like Tears In Rain. The image is made up mainly of white diagonal lines on a black background. Despite this, it is obvious…
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Independent Documentary Review – Immediate Family
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I do like a documentary. I also like music. So you can imagine how much I enjoy a music documentary. Obviously I don’t like every type of music but I do have quite catholic tastes. One documentary that I particularly liked was 2008’s The Wrecking Crew! which, due to arguments over the music rights, wasn’t…
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Independent Film Review – Scarlet Winter
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Ah…the old non-linear timeline trope. Quentin Tarantino used it so often that it became known as the Tarantino effect. He did reinvigorate the use of it but he didn’t invent it…not by a long shot! The earliest recorded use of it was over seventy five years earlier in DW Griffith’s Intolerance. Admittedly we’re all very…
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Independent Film Review – Detained
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When one of the wonderful people at Aim Publicity lets me know that another film is going to be available for review it is usually by sending a press release with a trailer attached. And so it was when I got the email about Detained. It said “Nothing is quite what it seems in Detained…
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Independent Film Review – Invitation To A Murder
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There’s nothing quite like a good, well thought out whodunit. They have been a popular genre for over a century and I think it is fair to say that the undisputed queen of the mystery novel is Dame Agatha Christie. Her most successful novel, with sales in excess of 100 million, is And Then There…
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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…
