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Film Review: ‘Puck’ (2023) – MANIFF 2023
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.
For HCMovieReviews: “Zavvi’s Gotham Guardian Collection Launch”
• LIKE on Facebook • FOLLOW on Twitter • FOLLOW on Instagram • SUBSCRIBE on YouTube • BUY ME A COFFEE on Ko-Fi On a dark and gloomy November night…Manchester certainly resembles Gotham City. But where is the Batman?.. Manchester’s Kingstreet Townhouse, obviously. For the last time this year, unfortunately, the heroes from Zavvi hosted... Continue Reading →
For SetTheTape.com: “Telling Tales Film and Audio Festival: Best of Film”
• LIKE on Facebook • FOLLOW on Twitter • FOLLOW on Instagram • SUBSCRIBE on YouTube • BUY ME A COFFEE on Ko-Fi Alongside a few feature-lengths, this year’s Telling Tales presented a superb diversity of films with a 30 minute or less running time. From the UK to the Netherlands and to America, a... Continue Reading →
For SetTheTape.com: “Telling Tales Film and Audio Festival: Awards and Interview with Dr Lisa Gold”
• LIKE on Facebook • FOLLOW on Twitter • FOLLOW on Instagram • SUBSCRIBE on YouTube • BUY ME A COFFEE on Ko-Fi The 2018 Telling Tales International Film & Audio Documentary Festival came to a conclusion with an intimate awards ceremony within Screen 1 of Manchester’s old Cornerhouse. Those who finished 3rd, 2nd and... Continue Reading →
For SetTheTape.com: “Telling Tales Film and Audio Festival: The Illuminators”
• LIKE on Facebook • FOLLOW on Twitter • FOLLOW on Instagram • SUBSCRIBE on YouTube • BUY ME A COFFEE on Ko-Fi Antti Haase’s The Illuminators (Valontuojat) – the best film of this year’s Telling Tales – is a beautiful story of family history combined with Lapland’s electronic evolution. Opening with a helicopter journey,... Continue Reading →
For SetTheTape.com: “Telling Tales Film and Audio Festival: Best of Audio”
Audio appreciation outside of art installation, but consumed in the same manner as film, is a growing mode of entertainment. Telling Tales was proud yet again to display the best of student and professional audio documentary in the world today. Below are the three standouts from the festival: Iron Glove Velvet Fist Back in the […]... Continue Reading →
For SetTheTape.com: “Telling Tales Film and Audio Festival: MMU Student Shorts”
• LIKE on Facebook • FOLLOW on Twitter • FOLLOW on Instagram • SUBSCRIBE on YouTube • BUY ME A COFFEE on Ko-Fi On both the first and last days of Telling Tales, audiences were treated to a selection of the finest short films from first-year undergraduate students. The student shorts were presenting a portrait... 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 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: “Rule Britannia: British Music in 1987”
• LIKE on Facebook • FOLLOW on Twitter • FOLLOW on Instagram • SUBSCRIBE on YouTube • BUY ME A COFFEE on Ko-Fi Back in the decade of outrageous haircuts, synthesizers and questionable outfits, British music was actually alright. In the 1980s, from Bowie to Bond themes, British music was often the safe getaway from... Continue Reading →
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