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The Golden Age indie film review

Dec 2, 2019
2 min

The Golden Age indie film review

★★★★ Directed by: #JustinConnor Written by: Justin Connor Starring: Justin Connor, #ChristopherMay, #BrianJacobs, #EllenGerstein, #DavidLovering, #JoeFiske Indie Film Review by: Chris Olson The Golden Age Movie Review Heavier and loaded with more pathos than your average rockumentary, filmmaker Justin Connor's musical The Golden Age is as meditative as it is tragic. Far from the outlandish antics of This Is Spinal Tap or the mile-a-minute crudeness of Get Him to the Greek, Co

The Ringmaster documentary review

Aug 10, 2019
2 min

The Ringmaster documentary review

★★★★ Directed by: #MollyDworsky, #DaveNewberg Written by: #ZacharyCapp, Molly Dworsky, Dave Newberg, #JulianWilliams Starring: #LarryLang, #ZacharyCapp, #LindaLang, #PeteBerg, #LexyLionel Documentary Film Review by: #ChrisOlson Documentary filmmakers have a completely different cinematic experience than those making movies around fictional narratives. Whilst the latter can remain independent of their story and rest peacefully in the fabrication, the former must often work dir

Alien Guy Tim short film review

Jul 25, 2019
2 min

Alien Guy Tim short film review

★★★★ Directed by: #ScottSimerlyJr. Written by: #PatrickMcElroy Starring: Patrick McElroy, #LaurenBair, #HuntingtonDaly, #JesseKruger Short Film Review by: #ChrisOlson Emerging amongst the Storm Area 51 Facebook event, Scott Simerly Jr.'s short film Alien Guy Tim feels peculiarly well-timed. Discussions about the existence of other life forms in the universe flare up every now again and storytellers are often equally as concerned with the people having those discussions than t

S.P.L.I.T mockumentary film review

Jun 12, 2019
3 min

S.P.L.I.T mockumentary film review

★★★★ Directed by: Robbie Walsh Written by: Robbie Walsh Starring: #RobbieWalsh, #DavidAlexanderRoche, #DamienDempsey, #CathalPendred, #JennyDixon, #PatrickMurphy Indie Film Review by: #ChrisOlson It is often clear when a filmmaker truly loves cinema because their own movies become littered with references. Robbie Walsh is one such devotee to cinematic greats, and his indie #mockumentary, S.P.L.I.T certainly contains enough nods of the head to classic crime capers to make Joe

WeirdLoop indie film review

May 14, 2019
3 min

WeirdLoop indie film review

★ Directed by: Alexander Cooper Starring: #AlexanderCooper, #JoasiaTapson Indie Film Review by: #JackCameron #Mockumentaries have enjoyed a lot of success in the past. They open up a whole new comedic toolkit that's usually unique to the genre; because they have one foot in reality the actors can use genuine sincerity, the #filmmakers can use irony and the audience gets to sit above it and just enjoy everything. But what makes them stand out is, like any good documentary, the

Simon's Quest short film

Nov 15, 2018
2 min

Simon's Quest short film

★★★ Directed by: #MarleyJaeger Starring: #JohnnyPozzi, #TalleyGale, #LucasBrahme, #TimothyJCox Short Film Review by: #AlexSpencer Despite having been around for decades, it is only in recent years that #LGBTQ cinema has begun to make more regular appearances in the mainstream. From the sublime beauty and heartbreak of Moonlight and Call Me By Your Name to the landmark high school flick Love, Simon, gay characters in film are slowly becoming accepted in the spotlight rather th

S.P.L.I.T indie film review

Oct 17, 2018
2 min

S.P.L.I.T indie film review

★★ Directed by: #RobbieWalsh Written by: #RobbieWalsh #DavidAlexanderRoache Starring: #RobbieWalsh #DavidAlexanderRoache Indie Film Review by: #HannahSayer #RobbieWalsh and #DavidAlexanderRoache play two hitmen in S.P.L.I.T, an Irish #mockumentary set over a couple of days during the Autumn of 2013 in Dublin. A camera crew follows these two hitmen round to document their jobs and what they get up to along the way. The majority of the film takes place while they’re on the road

KevCoin: The Movie indie film

Jul 7, 2018
2 min

KevCoin: The Movie indie film

★★★ Directed by: Jason Attar and Danny Wimborne Written by: Jason Attar, Danny Wimborne and Simon Fairhead Starring: Jason Attar, Steve Townsend, Tony Townsend, Lollypop, Emilyjane Vernau, Dom Geraghty, Martin Gooch, Lola-Rose Maxwell Indie Film Review by: Hannah Sayer KevCoin: The Movie is described by the filmmakers as being “The World’s First Crypto Feature Film”. Shot as a mockumentary, the film parodies the cryptocurrency phenomenon and follows the character Kevin Powder

Real Reality: Life Inside the Discomfort Zone short film

May 14, 2018
2 min

Real Reality: Life Inside the Discomfort Zone short film

★★★★ Directed by: Marshall Malone Starring: Rob Moccio, Jeremy Smith, Pauleen Conde and Jaron Wallace Short Film Review by: Annie Vincent Mockumentaries are great- why aren’t there more mockumentaries? In Real Reality: Life Inside the Discomfort Zone, Marshall Malone invites us into Steve Stevenson’s (yes, the silly little repetitions continue in other parts of the film) world – a place so dark after the events of 2016 that he has retreated into his VR headset: permanently. T

Fupa short film

May 7, 2018
2 min

Fupa short film

★★★★ Directed by: Gustavo Martin Starring: Fupa Short Film Review by: Chris Olson Short comedy documentary Fupa sees a young girl called Cody coming to terms with her pet rat’s tumor and regrettably short life expectancy. As she tells the audience about Fupa (named as such because of her fat upper pubic area - because of where the tumor is located) and the myriad of ways she has explored to find a solution, the film takes on a tragic tone as the inevitable sets in. Told with

California Hotdog Champions short film

Apr 5, 2018
2 min

California Hotdog Champions short film

★★★★★ Directed by: Fred Cavender Written by: Fred Cavender Starring: Louis Hill, Mark Chapman, Kaitlyn McGill, Bess Davies, Albert Cavender, Lloyd Lewis, Louis Cavender Short Film Review by: Chris Olson In the world of film journalism you cannot say the word music mockumentary without the words This Is Spinal Tap in the same sentence. It's a golden rule. And anyone who has seen, and loved, Spinal Tap will immediately see the influence on this short film from filmmaker Fred

The Masterpiece short film

Jul 12, 2017
3 min

The Masterpiece short film

Directed by Tanmay Singh Starring Preeti Jhangiani Short Film Review by Kirsty Asher The Masterpiece is a very interesting film. It employs the concept of the fading starlet, much like a Desi version of Sunset Boulevard, except Preeti Jhangiani is very much playing a version of herself. There is such a meta quality to this film, with a hardened line of criticism towards Hindi/Bollywood cinema and its attitude towards its female stars running all the way through it. The premis

Gary From Accounting short film

May 8, 2017
2 min

Gary From Accounting short film

Directed by Dan Lofaso Written by Phoebe Torres Starring Mark Grenier, Timothy J. Cox, Thea McCartan, Jake Lipman, Christopher John, Rhea Kottakis Short Film Review by Taryll Baker Most interventions are commonly serious, especially when a loved one's drinking problem has come to fruition. Director Dan Lofaso takes an amusingly light approach to the subject with Gary From Accounting. As with all short films, there’s always the worry that you will not connect with the characte

Tone Death indie film

Apr 21, 2017
3 min

Tone Death indie film

★★★ Directed by John Hickman and Roger Armstrong Starring Roger Armstrong, John Hickman, Stephen Robertson Indie Film Review by George Nash Through the camera lens of a documentary filmmaker, Tone Death follows bedroom dweller and techno-house music obsessive, Roger Armstrong, who, believing he has developed a revolutionary soundtrack that will free human consciousness, enlists the help of bumbling best friend, John Hickman, to test his theory on unbeknownst subjects. When do

Mickey Reece's Alien indie film

Mar 24, 2017
2 min

Mickey Reece's Alien indie film

★★★★ Directed by Mickey Reece Starring Jacob Ryan Snovel, Cate Jones, Alex Sanchez, John Selvidge, Michaelene Stephenson, & John Scamehorn Indie Film Review by Chris Olson Part mockumentary biopic, part film noir, part black comedy, part fantastic existential crisis, Mickey Reece’s Alien is arguably one of the most bizarre imaginings of Elvis you will ever see. Written and Directed by the titular Mickey Reece, his indie film encapsulates so many aspects of classic filmmaking,

The Man with Four Legs indie film

Mar 6, 2017
4 min

The Man with Four Legs indie film

★★★★ Directed by Ed Christmas Starring Richard Southgate, Daniel Ormerod, Charlotte Asprey, Terry Sweeney & Simon Dobson Film Review By Jack Bottomley “A Story to Die For” Journalism is a cruel, malicious and (quite often) ethics-free business, every so often someone can chase the truth and use their journalistic credentials to tell a worthwhile story or inform the public, sadly a lot of the time that is not the case. Journalism can often be a gateway to obsession, striving f

Already Dead short film

Feb 26, 2017
2 min

Already Dead short film

Directed and Written by Michael James Dean Starring Luke Shaw, Darren Ruston, Tony Cook and Shelley Davenport Short Film Review by Rachel Pullen It feels ever since the success of shows such as ‘’The Walking Dead’’ the horror genre has been saturated to the extreme with zombies, the un dead and those who just love the taste of brains. Trying to find anything good in this thick sludge of rotting corpses was like trying to find a good teen slasher flick in the 90’s, hard work

For Grace indie film

Oct 4, 2016
3 min

For Grace indie film

★★★★ Directed by Sebastian Armesto Starring Andrew Keatley, Jacob Casselden, David Acton, Carolyn Pertwee and Sophie Roberts Indie Film Review by Jack Bottomley “Graceful” Truth is stranger than fiction it is often said but the nature of truth is not always so easy to accept. In various documentary features and factual short films directors seek out people or subjects that – whether big or small – stand as evidence of just how beautiful, complex and indeed bewildering truth