Casual sex, intimate encounters, one night stands etc. They are books which immediately close as they open.
Film Review: ‘Puck’ (2023) – MANIFF 2023
Film Review: ‘Every Day in Kaimuki’ (2022) – 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.
Film Review: ‘Blazing Neon’ (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
Film Review: ‘Spaghetti Junction’ (2021) – MANIFF 2022
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.
Film Review: ’18 1/2′ (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.
Film Review: ‘Swan Song’ (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.
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... 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 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... 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 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... 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 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... 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 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... 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 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... Continue Reading →
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