DEAD VOICES *** USA 2020 Dir: William Butler. 80 mins This found footage movie begins with a special news bulletin reporting the disappearance of two sisters. Emily (Lauren Albo) and Sara (Angelica Briones) were recording a documentary on Lucas (Jack Buckley), he was Sara’s ex fiance, his team was apparently…
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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…
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…