The oddest film. A black man can make himself invisible. It started when he was a baby in the cradle. A crazy premise without feeling much for any character at all, the plot - it would seem that what we see is not always the truth, and the truth is hidden. I won’t say more about the film other than it holds our attention, but having the hero walk around nude most of the film to show he is invisible was just wearing. This film needs focus, clarity and editing.
A powerful short. A young violinist is caught naked in the kitchen of a detective's house. The young man just slept with the detective’s wife. The detective forces him into his car. He tells the violinist his daughter loves a violin piece, but he doesn’t know the name of it. He forces the young man to walk in the woods and tells him that two girls were found and it was the swimming coach who hid them, then chopped them up to pieces. All the while, that swimming coach had been lying to the detective. At the site where they were chopped up the two men go to. The violinist takes out his violin and plays that piece. Trevor Long as the violinist was superb in his role. It is a great short.
Comrade Fabian has come to Hungary and is welcomed by his cold comrades from the 70s. But this sexy comrade looks like he’s in his 30s. Two spies who are actually a couple, named Laci and “Birdy” are assigned the task of finding out about him and why he is so young. He ahs come to sponsor a Vietnamese blood drive, but his real motive is to take all the blood from the drive for his own. He’s a vampire, and by the end of the film, he gets the girl. Ironically was assigned to only escort him to various events concerning the blood drive.
But it seems the head of the party wants to gain eternal youth, and so wants Comrade Fabian captured to find out his secret. Blood not gold is the sought-after prize in this entertaining, quirky movie that puts a salacious spin with a lot of spoof on the vampire genre.
In the Mindanio
region of the Philippines, two families are carrying out revenge killings. A
father and husband of Satra, the main character has been killed. Then two sons eventually
are killed. The two women who have suffered their own tragedies in this
eventually settle on peace, despite the patriarch of both families. Sadly, one
father takes it into his own hands, and the ending is graphically telling,
though it is a still. This slow-moving movie is really compelling. The cast is
so believable and to think that except for the two women and the vengeful father,
the others in the film are not actors.
AFTERSHOCK, directed by Gareth Wilkes ****
A tightly crafted short. A waitress ends up at closing time; but there's a man there who wants to finihs his coffee. He begins to show her his drawings of her. She's impressed. She goes to lock the safe, and what follows is horrific. Suddenly there is an earthquakes, and both are trapped. He's under a cement block, but she has not been made immobile. Gas is leaking and time is running out for both. She needs his help to pull the blocked door open. What happens provide a great plot twist. The title is fitting in more ways than one. A great short made for women seeking revenge.
A documentarythat features musicians, installation arts and more as they tackle war-torn Lebanon using their art to reflect the ongoing devastation of this country. The Golden age of Lebanon is finished, and wars have turned the county into shattered buildings. Black and white clips show it all. Many of the artists left, but returned to their homeland, specifically Beirut.
This hilarious spoof of the Israeli Mossad is part Peter
Sellers and part James Bond. From the
get-go, the whacky humour punctuated with penultimately funny one-liners gets you laughing at every second. Yet the plot is serious enough. A billionaire
tech dude is kidnapped by terrorists, so a handsome Mossad agent named Guy teams up with a less than perfect FBI agent. Sadly, the FBI guy gets fried in the
most noble of sacrificial ways right at belly body level. But all is not lost; he’s rebuilt like a Robocop wizard. The bungling duo has got to succeed in
their mission, or else the retiring director of the Mossad will ose his chance to light a torch in the
Independence Day torch-lighting ceremony. Such ridiculousness typifies the
entire series of events that combine exaggeration with comedic entertainment.
The beginning moves like an action packed low-budget nail
biter (but as a spoof). However, the movie sputters part way through, but still ends up befriending our silly bone in a refreshing way.
