• 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”
• 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”
• 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”
• 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”
• 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”
• LIKE on Facebook • FOLLOW on Twitter • FOLLOW on Instagram • SUBSCRIBE on YouTube • BUY ME A COFFEE on Ko-Fi In the sports film – be it drama, comedy or even action – the likes of boxing, American football, baseball, football/soccer and hockey have been produced almost excessively, but what about wrestling? Wrestling films – be them centred on independent promotions or … Continue reading For SetTheTape.com: “Walk Like a Panther: Wrestling in Film”
• 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”
• 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”
• LIKE on Facebook • FOLLOW on Twitter • FOLLOW on Instagram • SUBSCRIBE on YouTube • BUY ME A COFFEE on Ko-Fi In the modern world, relationship break-ups are established by Twitter DMs, Facebook messages or even snaps on Snapchat, but what if there could be a way how a third party could organise the break-up – with official documents too? You have Love … Continue reading For SetTheTape.com: “Manchester Film Festival: Love is Dead”
• LIKE on Facebook • FOLLOW on Twitter • FOLLOW on Instagram • SUBSCRIBE on YouTube • BUY ME A COFFEE on Ko-Fi Friendships can last a lifetime, but they can also last for five minutes. Friendships can end, but then resume after years apart. Friends can see friends reverse roles, but for roles to reserve again. In Bernard and Huey, old friends are reunited, … Continue reading For SetTheTape.com: “Manchester Film Festival: Bernard and Huey”
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