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jamieannhickman
Reviews
Kick Me (2023)
A pressure cooker of tragicomedic, chaotically good fun!
Always delightful to have a film where you don't know what to expect more than exceed your expectations! An extreme though eloquent example of no good deed goes unpunished. With edge-of-your-seat-mouth-agape-what's-gonna-happen-next tension so relatable to the modern human experience, you'd be sociopathic not to empathize with the lead character. Though certain sociopathic tendencies is what gives this film its "what the fu@#!" charm. Great music and wonderful performances by many newcomers is the icing on this wacky cake of a cathartic crisis of fun narrative filmmaking you're sure to get a "kick" out of! Watch and enjoy!
The Looking Planet (2014)
Extraordinary
I saw this film at the 2014 Knoxville Film Festival, and I had the extraordinary experience of seeing an audience on pause. The entire film was utterly mesmerizing, but there was one particular moment (and one will know when he or she sees it) where I personally came to the slightly tearful realization that we are ALL in this together. Not sure if my fellow audience members came to the same conclusion, but in that moment, we shared something that silenced us and stilled the air. I had the notion that this film should be translated into every language and shown everywhere across the planet in hopes that everyone would have the epiphany or the aha moment that I did. In the moment, I truly felt that would be the beginning of the shift into world peace. This film spoke a message that clearly to me. But, if the least this film does is put an audience on pause, that is no less extraordinary work.