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ClearMind (2024)
Clever writing and good production for a low budget indie!
I totally enjoyed this movie as it was different then most of the horror comedy coming out lately in the last few years. Writing is fun and the acting is great from some familiar faces you've seen across streamers over the years. The lead played by Rebecca Crescoff was amazing in that HBO show Hung, if anyone remembers that. Here she is a totally different character with a dark side of sadness. Or whats his face Kadeem from A Different World and the short lived Moonhaven is also funny, married to a pill of a women. All these character interactions created by the writer present like a play, letting the characters relationships development like a dramady, saving the action and the light-twist for Act 3 - instead of the more popular horror comedys that play out in a typical fashion.
Worth the watch!
30 Miles from Nowhere (2018)
Fun comedy horror/thriller indie
I was surprised by this low budget indie - it was funny and the acting was good and the dialogue was snappy. It wasn't entirely horror and wasn't entirely a comedy but surprisingly right in the middle. I would say it's worth renting.
Armstrong (2017)
Surprising Sci-Fi Indie
I was surprised when I saw this film. Good mix of drama and character development with some cool action sequences and nice CGI that felt natural within the story as opposed to tacked on for no reason. Good performances by the cast. I wonder what the budget was because the film looked great.
I was impressed though. Vicky Jeudy does a nice job as rookie EMT who suffers from a drug past. And the always entertaining Jason Antoon as her partner teaches her the ropes until their night gets turned upside down and forever changed.
Check it out. Better than most things you scroll through on Netflix/iTunes and say " Who the hell made this movie?"
B+ and a Thumbs Up!
Salinger (2013)
Great lesson in how NOT to make a documentary.
If you really want to hear about it, SADLY, Salinger doc was awful. Terribly executed and most of all PHONY. It's everything Salinger himself hated. Bombastic, sensationalistic, voyeuristic, and just plan dull. To make up for it the genius of a director adds the worst over-scored music just so you know what to feel during each moment. AND to make matters worst, there are cheesy reenactments of a shadowy guy playing Salinger at a typewriter smoking a cig through out. As a JD fan I felt shitty watching it. There was one real moment in the whole film(WW2 vet telling a story). But thats all. It'll kill ya, whether you adore Salinger or love documentaries, it'll tear you to pieces for two and a half hours. Ugh! The horrible reviews were dead on. The book is a bit better, I must say, but doesn't make me want to finish it. I'll just wait until Salinger's new stories come out. Fingers crossed.
Riverworld (2003)
Stab out your eyes before you watch this travesty!
Not surprising that Sci-Fi would produce such a horrible tv/F- movie. Whoever greenlights a project over there outta be taken out back and put out of his/her misery. Riverworld is a noble and daring project to undertake, but it ends there as soon as you see the space shuttle hurdling through space in the opening sequence(I can just see the crew shaking and rattling the ersatz-shuttle cockpit in some huge studio, most likely in New Zealand.) These hack producers and writers take such liberties with Philip Jose Farmer's original material, which was brilliant! The first thing to do is get the script right, we will forgive the bad production values, and the bad fight scenes.
There are so many horrible movies out there, why add to the list.
Read the books by Philp Jose Farmer instead!