THE FARE **** USA 2018 Dir: D.C. Hamilton. 82 mins Written by lead actress Brinna Kelly and produced by its charismatic star, Gino Anthony Pesi, this joins an elite group of witty, cleverly plotted genre-bending movies set almost entirely in a single car (Eric Red’s black-hearted COHEN AND TATE is…
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TURNABOUT * U.S.A. 2016 Dir: E.B. Hughes. 90 mins We open with a troubled man, Billy Cain (George Katt,) who attempts to suicide one night with sleeping pills and throwing himself off a bridge into an icy river. It doesn’t work and, in a desperation, climbs out and reaches a…
WRITER’S CRAMP (a.k.a. Breakdowns) * USA 2015 Dir: Darva Campbell. 105 mins With regular, pace-killing slow fade transitions where you would normally find commercials and lines of dialogue delivered with an apparent pause for canned laughter, this drawing room murder-mystery farce plays out like a particularly duff local theatre company…
LAKE MUNGO ***** Australia 2008 Dir: Joel Anderson. 87 mins “I feel like something bad is going to happen to me. I feel like something bad has happened – it just hasn’t reached me yet”. The tragic teenage girl – seen only via stills and home video footage of her…
One of the greatest films ever made, horror or otherwise’ Rob Savage ‘A classic supernatural enigma, once seen never forgotten’ Projected Figures ‘It’s devastating, it’s terrifying, and I think every single person with a pulse should watch it at least once and then immediately call their loved ones’ Collider ‘Read between…