GO SCRATCH: A DREAMER’S DOCUMENTARY
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Year Released: 2012 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 21 minutes |
If luck was indeed something that could be influenced by karma or personality, you figure we’d see it played out amongst these personalities…
Posted on September 16, 2013 by Mark Bell
WRIGLEY AND KING
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Year Released: 2011 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 8 minutes |
Cornelius Murphy’s short film Wrigley and King explores a candid moment in a man’s life as he attends his brother’s funeral. Waiting until everyone is gone, Wade (Jonathan Thomson) makes his way to his brother’s casket to pay his final respects. While there, spurred on by a comment the funeral director (Michael Boothroyd) makes, Wade […]
Posted on September 15, 2013 by Mark Bell
PROMISE AND UNREST
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Year Released: 2013 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 79 minutes |
Dublin’s expensive cost of living and Irish work permit policies create a strain on mother and daughter.
Posted on September 14, 2013 by Phil Hall
TRANSPARENT
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Year Released: 2013 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 9 minutes |
It’s a tale of personal and physical changes and acceptance, and I’m sure it’s one that the characters in this film will repeat, in differing ways in other situations, for some time…
Posted on September 14, 2013 by Mark Bell
THE 10 COMMANDMENTS OF CHLOE
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Year Released: 2013 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 71 minutes |
I could see someone seeing this and thinking it’s a film where nothing happens. Well, things happen, and there is a progression made from opening to closing, but it’s more true to the way life works. Which is, we might have small evolutions, or small successes and failures, but it’s not always a resounding arc of character growth where Event A sets off Event and Catharsis B…
Posted on September 13, 2013 by Mark Bell
PUNCH MONEY
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Year Released: 2012 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 93 minutes |
Technically, the film goes with a down-and-dirty aesthetic. Visually it’s fine, though not imaginative or impressive. The camera is there to do its job, capture the scene and cover the angles for editing, and that’s the bulk of its contribution. This isn’t about getting creative with composition…
Posted on September 12, 2013 by Mark Bell
DEAN SLATER: RESIDENT ADVISOR
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Year Released: 2013 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 83 minutes |
I liked that it tried to work some sort of element of deeper meaning in there, even if it was often utilized to loosely set up another joke, because it’s a good point. How can students today really get that “college experience” when they’re staring at their smartphones all the time?
Posted on September 11, 2013 by Mark Bell
CHASING FIRE
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Year Released: 2013 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 108 minutes |
The subplots involving organ transplants and the main climactic tragic event seem to exist in an entirely different movie, and serve more as a distraction, or an unnecessary way to amp up the drama in a story that otherwise could exist, and excel, as a taboo love story, given the chance to focus solely on those elements…
Posted on September 11, 2013 by Mark Bell
CORVUS
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Year Released: 2012 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 10 minutes |
This short film is visually stunning, and pulls out all the tricks it can…
Posted on September 10, 2013 by Mark Bell
THE IN BETWEEN
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Year Released: 2013 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 9 minutes |
It seems needlessly vague, and so I never truly connected, which makes it all the more forgettable…
Posted on September 10, 2013 by Mark Bell
SPLIT DECISION
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Year Released: 2012 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 28 minutes |
Lola’s is more drama-friendly than average, but she’s just trying to come to terms with her sexuality, her place in her family and her career, which is at that crucial spot that could be the beginning of something great or a premature end. Thus she is a challenged character, but welcome as a strong female protagonist…
Posted on September 9, 2013 by Mark Bell
BROKEN
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Year Released: 2013 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 24 minutes |
Its restraint is its ultimate strength, and it’s the type of short film that I could seeing winning a film fest award or two (if its running time doesn’t trip up its programming chances too much)…
Posted on September 9, 2013 by Mark Bell
GALLINO, THE CHICKEN SYSTEM
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Year Released: 2013 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 82 minutes |
It’s more a cinematic experience that you feel out, and it becomes what you want it to become. For some, it’ll deliver some startling insights. For others, it’s bullshit artsy gibberish that you can’t believe anyone would conceive, let alone film. And still more will just feel bad for all the sexualized chicken…
Posted on September 8, 2013 by Mark Bell
DIAGHILEV AND THE BALLETS RUSSES (DVD)
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Year Released: 2013 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 60 minutes |
Ballet lovers will greatly appreciate this insightful and intelligent presentation…
Posted on September 8, 2013 by Phil Hall
THE INTERVIEW
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Year Released: 2013 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 8 minutes |
I didn’t trust the Vanessa character enough (or at all), based on what we see and hear, to buy into the mystery she’s spinning. Because of that, anything else that happens is entirely suspect and the film’s impact, when it attempts to make one, is lost on me…
Posted on September 7, 2013 by Mark Bell