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Film Reviews, MANIFF/Manchester Film Festival, Set The Tape

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 Hugh Thompson) is the slightly private, slightly creepy, slightly mysterious … Continue reading For SetTheTape.com: “Manchester Film Festival: Touched”

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Film Reviews, MANIFF/Manchester Film Festival, Set The Tape

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 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”

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Film Discussion, Set The Tape

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 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”

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Film Reviews, MANIFF/Manchester Film Festival, Set The Tape

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 a beautiful light in the very dark Can’t Say Goodbye. … Continue reading For SetTheTape.com: “Manchester Film Festival: Can’t Say Goodbye”

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Film Reviews, MANIFF/Manchester Film Festival, Set The Tape

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 lake, wearing nothing but his shorts, for he to paddle … Continue reading For SetTheTape.com: “Manchester Film Festival: Covadonga”

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Film Reviews, MANIFF/Manchester Film Festival, Set The Tape

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 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”

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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 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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Film Reviews, MANIFF/Manchester Film Festival, Set The Tape

For SetTheTape.com: “Manchester Film Festival: Painted Woman”

• 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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Film Discussion, Set The Tape

For SetTheTape.com: “15:17 to Paris: Clint Eastwood’s Best Directorial Film from Each Full Decade”

• LIKE on Facebook   • FOLLOW on Twitter   • FOLLOW on Instagram • SUBSCRIBE on YouTube   • BUY ME A COFFEE on Ko-Fi Clint Eastwood has been directing films – both good and bad – since 1971. Eastwood debuted in the director’s chair with Play Misty for Me, a thriller presenting Eastwood himself as a radio DJ, but one with the misfortune of acquainting a … Continue reading For SetTheTape.com: “15:17 to Paris: Clint Eastwood’s Best Directorial Film from Each Full Decade”

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Film Discussion, Set The Tape, Throwback

For SetTheTape.com: “Throwback 10: Rambo”

• LIKE on Facebook   • FOLLOW on Twitter   • FOLLOW on Instagram • SUBSCRIBE on YouTube   • BUY ME A COFFEE on Ko-Fi Having successfully brought life back into the Rocky franchise with Rocky Balboa in 2006, it was inevitable that actor-writer-director, Sylvester Stallone, would bring back John Rambo for one last mission. With the new film, Rambo, being the fourth in the franchise, the … Continue reading For SetTheTape.com: “Throwback 10: Rambo”

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For SetTheTape.com: “The 15:17 to Paris’ Clint Eastwood – Play Misty for Me”

• LIKE on Facebook   • FOLLOW on Twitter   • FOLLOW on Instagram • SUBSCRIBE on YouTube   • BUY ME A COFFEE on Ko-Fi Within the short period between the conclusion of Man with No Name’s story and the debut of “Dirty” Harry Callahan, Clint Eastwood would find himself in the director’s chair for the utterly terrifying drama-thriller, Play Misty for Me in 1971. In terms … Continue reading For SetTheTape.com: “The 15:17 to Paris’ Clint Eastwood – Play Misty for Me”

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For SetTheTape.com: “The Post’s Spielberg and Hanks: A 20 Year Collaboration”

• LIKE on Facebook   • FOLLOW on Twitter   • FOLLOW on Instagram • SUBSCRIBE on YouTube   • BUY ME A COFFEE on Ko-Fi In 1998, back-to-back two-time Oscar-winner, Tom Hanks, collaborated with Steven Spielberg, the superstar director boasting a catalogue of blockbusters from Jaws to Schindler’s List, in Saving Private Ryan – an epic-scale WW2 film that some consider being the greatest war film of … Continue reading For SetTheTape.com: “The Post’s Spielberg and Hanks: A 20 Year Collaboration”

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