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For SetTheTape.com: “Monochrome – DVD/VOD Review”

• LIKE on Facebook   • FOLLOW on Twitter   • FOLLOW on Instagram • SUBSCRIBE on YouTube   • BUY ME A COFFEE on Ko-Fi The young girlfriend of a pension fraudster is on the run. A Synesthesia-suffering investigator is after her. Monochrome parallels two character journeys, eventually interlocking, and transcending into a dangerous game of cat and mouse. Monochrome begins with an externally shot house raid … Continue reading For SetTheTape.com: “Monochrome – DVD/VOD Review”

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Film Review: ‘The Greasy Strangler’ (2016)

• LIKE on Facebook   • FOLLOW on Twitter   • FOLLOW on Instagram • SUBSCRIBE on YouTube   • BUY ME A COFFEE on Ko-Fi Stars: Michael St. Michaels, Sky Elobar and Elizabeth De Razzo. Director: Jim Hosking Distributor: FilmRise Trash Cinema is beautiful cinema. The What’s on TV television guide suggested The Greasy Strangler to be a one-star film – did they even watch it? A pushing 70 (maybe … Continue reading Film Review: ‘The Greasy Strangler’ (2016)

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For SetTheTape.com: “Ready Player One – Film Review”

• LIKE on Facebook   • FOLLOW on Twitter   • FOLLOW on Instagram • SUBSCRIBE on YouTube   • BUY ME A COFFEE on Ko-Fi Never would I predict to see the DeLorean travel beyond 88mph, but not time-travel… Steven Spielberg is back on the big screen with a wild ride of pop culture mayhem in Ready Player One. Are you ready? Adapted from Ernest Cline’s 2011 … Continue reading For SetTheTape.com: “Ready Player One – Film Review”

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Film Reviews, MANIFF/Manchester Film Festival, Set The Tape

For SetTheTape.com: “Manchester Film Festival: Nona”

• LIKE on Facebook   • FOLLOW on Twitter   • FOLLOW on Instagram • SUBSCRIBE on YouTube   • BUY ME A COFFEE on Ko-Fi Michael Polish’s Nona closed the 2018 Manchester Film Festival, as audiences were left depressed with the presentation of how hope and risk can lead to despicable outcomes that no woman should have to live under. Nona opens with a brief narration by … Continue reading For SetTheTape.com: “Manchester Film Festival: Nona”

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For SetTheTape.com: “Manchester Film Festival: Silk Road”

• LIKE on Facebook   • FOLLOW on Twitter   • FOLLOW on Instagram • SUBSCRIBE on YouTube   • BUY ME A COFFEE on Ko-Fi From Easy Rider to the Scarface remake, from Nil by Mouth to Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, and from any Cheech & Chong film to The Wolf of Wall Street, drugs have been presented in a variation of positive and negative … Continue reading For SetTheTape.com: “Manchester Film Festival: Silk Road”

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Film Reviews, MANIFF/Manchester Film Festival, Set The Tape

For SetTheTape.com: “Manchester Film Festival: Damascus Cover”

• LIKE on Facebook   • FOLLOW on Twitter   • FOLLOW on Instagram • SUBSCRIBE on YouTube   • BUY ME A COFFEE on Ko-Fi The most mainstream film of the MANIFF2018 and winner of the festival’s Best English Language Film award, Damascus Cover is Daniel Berk’s (Love is a Gun) adaptation of Howard Kaplan’s 1977 spy novel of the same name, and a return to form … Continue reading For SetTheTape.com: “Manchester Film Festival: Damascus Cover”

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For SetTheTape.com: “Shirley: Visions of Reality – Blu-ray Review”

• LIKE on Facebook   • FOLLOW on Twitter   • FOLLOW on Instagram • SUBSCRIBE on YouTube   • BUY ME A COFFEE on Ko-Fi We all have our favourite paintings, be it portrait or landscape, antique or contemporary, and so on. What if a group of paintings were adapted into filmmaking, but with the inclusion of a fictional story, (almost completely) chronologically running through an exclusive … Continue reading For SetTheTape.com: “Shirley: Visions of Reality – Blu-ray Review”

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For SetTheTape.com: “Manchester Film Festival: Touched”

• LIKE on Facebook   • FOLLOW on Twitter   • FOLLOW on Instagram • SUBSCRIBE on YouTube   • BUY ME A COFFEE on Ko-Fi Is she dead? Is he dead? Is she real? Is he real? What is real? Touched is a pretentious, bleak, but very curious psychological-mystery-thriller-drama all the way from Canada. Gabriel (Forgive Me’s Hugh Thompson) is the slightly private, slightly creepy, slightly mysterious … Continue reading For SetTheTape.com: “Manchester Film Festival: Touched”

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For SetTheTape.com: “Manchester Film Festival: Buckout Road”

• LIKE on Facebook   • FOLLOW on Twitter   • FOLLOW on Instagram • SUBSCRIBE on YouTube   • BUY ME A COFFEE on Ko-Fi In the brochure of the film festival, Danny Glover is billed as the lead actor of Buckout Road – sadly he’s not. Buckout Road, however, is a wildly fun horror with comedy elements all over the show. Are you ready to visit… … Continue reading For SetTheTape.com: “Manchester Film Festival: Buckout Road”

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For SetTheTape.com: “Manchester Film Festival: Can’t Say Goodbye”

• LIKE on Facebook   • FOLLOW on Twitter   • FOLLOW on Instagram • SUBSCRIBE on YouTube   • BUY ME A COFFEE on Ko-Fi A father dying of cancer is an excruciatingly difficult period, but for two sisters and their father, the cancer has created opportunities to reconcile. In darkness, there is light, and there is a beautiful light in the very dark Can’t Say Goodbye. … Continue reading For SetTheTape.com: “Manchester Film Festival: Can’t Say Goodbye”

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For SetTheTape.com: “Manchester Film Festival: Covadonga”

• LIKE on Facebook   • FOLLOW on Twitter   • FOLLOW on Instagram • SUBSCRIBE on YouTube   • BUY ME A COFFEE on Ko-Fi Words have not yet been invented to describe how one feels when observing a giant of a man – Martin Ravin (Beach Pillows’ Sean Hartofilis) – playing an acoustic guitar by a lake, wearing nothing but his shorts, for he to paddle … Continue reading For SetTheTape.com: “Manchester Film Festival: Covadonga”

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