• 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 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 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 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”
• LIKE on Facebook • FOLLOW on Twitter • FOLLOW on Instagram • SUBSCRIBE on YouTube • BUY ME A COFFEE on Ko-Fi James Cotten’s female-led western, Painted Woman, opened the 2018 Manchester Film Festival, and audiences witnessed a presentation of a female hero braking from her constraints and ensuring that the next generation is safer from paedophilia, prostitution and physical abuse. Painted Woman’s plot … Continue reading For SetTheTape.com: “Manchester Film Festival: Painted Woman”
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