Based on the concept of seeing people and the world through an Instagram filter, The Draw is one of the best – and scariest – sci-fi films in recent years. Continue reading Film Review: ‘The Draw’ (2024) – Manchester Film Festival 2025
The title of this film – My Dead Friend Zoe – reads in a slightly comedic fashion, and to an extent, initially diminishes how emotionally damning this film actually is. Continue reading Film Review: ‘My Dead Friend Zoe’ (2024) – Manchester Film Festival 2025
Two teenagers task themselves with getting laid and having the wildest time as they enter the new millennium. Sound familiar? Of course. Continue reading Film Review: ‘Y2K’ (2024) – Manchester Film Festival 2025
Casual sex, intimate encounters, one night stands etc. They are books which immediately close as they open. Continue reading Film Review: ‘Puck’ (2023) – MANIFF 2023
A community radio host has the opportunity to leave and progress from his neighbourhood of Kaimukī – the move, however, is as daunting as it is ambitious. Continue reading Film Review: ‘Every Day in Kaimuki’ (2022) – MANIFF 2023
Two tormented characters, either side of human trafficking, find their paths merge into one in FGKO’s gritty adaptation of Rémy Lasource’s Du crepitement sous les neons Continue reading Film Review: ‘Blazing Neon’ (2022) – MANIFF 2023
From writer-director Kirby McClure, Spaghetti Junction is the latest to blend the elements of the socially realistic family drama with the surrealist sci-fi fantasy. Continue reading Film Review: ‘Spaghetti Junction’ (2021) – MANIFF 2022
The film responsible for Dan Mirvish winning the Best Director award at MANIFF 2022, 18 ½ is a comedy-drama dripped in paranoia involving the discovery of the missing duration of the infamous Nixon tapes. Continue reading Film Review: ’18 1/2′ (2021) – MANIFF 2022
The best film from the opening weekend of MANIFF 2022, writer-director Todd Stephens presents veteran Udo Kier with the stage to perform a career best performance, dripping in the spectacular and flamboyance. Continue reading Film Review: ‘Swan Song’ (2021) – MANIFF 2022
• 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”
• 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”
• 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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