Firstly I am not a big fan of LGBGT+ films. They tend to be too busy shoving an agenda or there extremely overt sexuality at you. But, JEFF DRIVES YOU is a standout class film with a strong story, a great central performance and a well edited and directed production. The concept is interesting a self driving car that talks to its passenger and learns all about them. It is humorous with a dark edge. For a twenty minute film you get to the end wondering where the time has flown, this is the sign of an intelligent and well written story produced to its best.
Reviews
39 Reviews
Jeff Drives You
(2019)
An intelligent & well written story produced to its best
9 August 2022
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The Facility
(2012)
Not great
20 May 2022
Fairly good premise. But that is about it. The shooting is awful, excessive close-up shooting. Poor handy-cam documentary style, which doesn't sell the idea and does nothing for the film. The acting is okay, but the director has a delusion about how good his script is and the characters included.
That Halloween
(2021)
A balanced and well told story.
15 February 2022
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That Halloween, is well shot, well thought through and very tight. Everything about it is. The story takes place
on October 31, 1955, when June & Frank Marsters are horribly murdered by end an escaped killer. The legend has grown since that time and on a certain halloween, a bunch of young friends visit the site of the murders to see if they can discover what really happened.
The Stairs
(I) (2021)
Well made and entertaing from start to finish
3 August 2021
The Stairs falls into the mold of 'Old School Horror/Sci-fi. It has some excellent practical effects and SFX make-up. The story is well-crafted with a tense otherworldly underbelly. It has some enjoyable surprises and revelations. At 92 minutes, it is a good length and keeps the pace throughout this action-packed film. The ensemble cast has some outstanding performances. All in all a film really worth seeing.
O.I.
(2018)
A clever and well executed story
21 March 2021
This is a very polished production and is highlighted with top-notch performances. The script is intriguing and draws you in and rounds the whole thing up with a great ending. It is well made on all counts and is well directed short film
Puppet Killer
(2019)
Now that's entertainment
3 March 2020
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Great cast, crazy script. Everything you could want from a film that delivers gore, madness and mayhem. Started out questioning the decision to cast a 50 year old as a 17 year old, but Alex was fab and once you get over that it is fun, fun, fun.
The Mission Roles on
13 February 2020
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Mission Backup Earth is an award-winning science fiction web-series created by Alexander Pfander. In the series, mankind struggles to colonize a habitable exoplanet. This is the 9th in series, if you excluded the prequel. The first episode aired in 2014 so they can be excused for having the series become a little disjointed at times over the 6 years. But it has it's charm and has been made by lovers of Sci-fi and without any money what-so-ever. I thinkit's biggest charm is the us of probability and possibility within science. This has managed to keep me hooked.
Beyond Fury
(2019)
Brutal and packs a punch
20 January 2020
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This film holds no compromise in its violence. When Michael Walker's girlfriend is brutally attacked and killed, the ex-mercenary hunt down the perpetrator and serve up his own version of justice. I saw this at a screening in Erlangen Germany and as someone who loves action, horror and violence in a movie, was not disappointed. But the main aspect is that the story is not compromised. It is a straight forward tale of revenge and retribution and works really well. I saw the first in the series many years ago and this shows the development of the character and director Darren Ward.
Home in Time
(2019)
Clever, sharp and very entertaining.
18 December 2019
A truly entertain and funny film. Strong performances, well written and executed script. It is impossible to say anything negative about this film and am looking foraward to seeing what Patrick Haggarty produces next.
Miracle Desert
(2019)
Just pure entertainment
21 November 2019
I've seen this a few times now and never tire of it. The performances specifically from JR Bourne is outstanding. essentially you have two heads in the sand. So it could have been a simple situation made hard to make compelling. The direction, shooting and script are razor sharp. IF you haven't seen this - You should.
The Cold Caller
(2019)
Tight and tense.
18 April 2019
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Marian Elizabeth plays the hapless victim, what is going to happen to her and how grim it will be is without doubt. But she is smart and manages to find a way of getting help... Shame that it doesn't work out.
This is a gripping four minutes with a victim, a psychopath and a room. This is what short horror films are about.
This is a gripping four minutes with a victim, a psychopath and a room. This is what short horror films are about.
Dead Celebrities
(2018)
Very entertaining
15 April 2019
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Some Geezers will do anything to be famous, but for that there is a price. Very nice. This short is amusing, pacey and cleverly done on a minimal budget. I caught this at a screening in Berlin and was pleased to have found this little gem.
Meeting MacGuffin
(2017)
Cleverly put together Stop motion animation
25 November 2018
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Your drawn in by the texture of the piece from the very beginning. Meeting MacGuffin is set in a post-apocalyptic future where humanity has fallen apart where the Clothespin Freaks attempt to reassemble human fragments and create an alternate form of humanity. It is engaging, thought provoking and very well put together. Ten minutes that are woven together so that it makes you want to see the whole trilogy.
High-Rise
(2015)
A failure on every floor
24 June 2017
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The question intriguing me after watching High Rise wasn't whether it had sufficiently excoriated the class system, as the writer and director seem to have hoped it would, but whether they had understood Ballard's remarkable book at all. Clumsily, almost as an afterthought, the film closes (and it's not a spoiler to say this) with a cheap political shot against 'capitalism'. How very 'Spitting Image'. But Ballard was better and smarter than that. The societal collapse he was describing was just as much a feature of socialist, fascist or communist societies. His Swiftian vision of mankind wasn't restricted to the fashionable political fetishes of the day but to man himself. An even greater irony is that the failure of the High Rise project stems from the fact that it was a planned project at all - which hardly bangs the drum for the sort of social re-engineering, statism and enforced egalitarianism the film makers seem to be suggesting would be preferable. Indeed, the supermarket stocked with nothing but unbranded products called to mind the Soviet Union rather more than Walmart, and it is strange that the director didn't realise this.
It's hard to ignore the heavy-handed sixth form political wallpaper but even if one can, the film is still a weak average. Tom Hiddleston is as detached and android like as Ballard's Laing has to be, though one wonders if he has anything else to him as this does appear to be his stock in trade performance, but the rest of the cast hams and camps it up adequately. The orgies, however, get as tiring and passionless for the viewer as they must have been for the participants, and even the choreographed violence lacks any of the dangerously seductive grace of Kubrick's Clockwork Orange - they are simply unpleasant but not even shocking.
It is hard to make a film suggesting a dystopian future by setting it in a past which, clearly, those who made it were too young to have experienced. On balance, I wish they had left it someone else.
It's hard to ignore the heavy-handed sixth form political wallpaper but even if one can, the film is still a weak average. Tom Hiddleston is as detached and android like as Ballard's Laing has to be, though one wonders if he has anything else to him as this does appear to be his stock in trade performance, but the rest of the cast hams and camps it up adequately. The orgies, however, get as tiring and passionless for the viewer as they must have been for the participants, and even the choreographed violence lacks any of the dangerously seductive grace of Kubrick's Clockwork Orange - they are simply unpleasant but not even shocking.
It is hard to make a film suggesting a dystopian future by setting it in a past which, clearly, those who made it were too young to have experienced. On balance, I wish they had left it someone else.
Her
(2013)
Pityful
9 March 2014
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"HER" - WHAT A PILE OF PLONK! Another film that everyone ranted and raved about. I have to admit the trailer really was a good teaser and has sort of a unique idea
That is where it stops! This is a laughably stupid piece of attempted Hollywood art-house rubbish. A romantic plot line so poorly executed that if you care about anything in this film you are as sad as it is. American stereotyping that stretches to giving an Computer Operating System a female personality.
"Her" consists of shots of Theodor "Phoenix" talking to "Samantha," a Computer Operating System voiced by Scarlett Johansson.
He is a bore with a failed marriage and is lonely. He plays video games but appears to have no other interest or activity. His computer's new operating system has a sexy voice. He has a relationship with this voice. The relationship consists of him chatting with the computer about how sad and lonely he feels and how he wishes he were in love and in a relationship. Theodore reminisces about his marriage. He also jerks off in an awful bit of telephone type sexy as Samantha discovers her sexuality and the "double date scene is ridiculous.
You cannot empathise with a computer voice – end. The movie is inert. Nothing funny or challenging or profound or original or intriguing or witty or daring is said or done. There's no development of the idea. The movie's end could just as well have been the movie's middle or even its beginning. There is so much inept nothing up on the screen I'm astounded that this movie was even released.
So there you have it Man falls in love with computer, computer breaks up with him and runs off with the 8000 other associated OS systems to live happily ever after in Cyberspace, leaving the man lost. Dumb, dumber and dumberer.
"Her" consists of shots of Theodor "Phoenix" talking to "Samantha," a Computer Operating System voiced by Scarlett Johansson.
He is a bore with a failed marriage and is lonely. He plays video games but appears to have no other interest or activity. His computer's new operating system has a sexy voice. He has a relationship with this voice. The relationship consists of him chatting with the computer about how sad and lonely he feels and how he wishes he were in love and in a relationship. Theodore reminisces about his marriage. He also jerks off in an awful bit of telephone type sexy as Samantha discovers her sexuality and the "double date scene is ridiculous.
You cannot empathise with a computer voice – end. The movie is inert. Nothing funny or challenging or profound or original or intriguing or witty or daring is said or done. There's no development of the idea. The movie's end could just as well have been the movie's middle or even its beginning. There is so much inept nothing up on the screen I'm astounded that this movie was even released.
So there you have it Man falls in love with computer, computer breaks up with him and runs off with the 8000 other associated OS systems to live happily ever after in Cyberspace, leaving the man lost. Dumb, dumber and dumberer.
Alan Partridge
(2013)
Accolades galour - But how and why!
23 December 2013
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I am neither a Steve Coogan fan or not. But looking at the reviews this was the BEST COMEDY of the year... I managed 4 chuckles - if you can call them that throughout the whole 90 minutes - which actually felt like 150 minutes.
The premise and basic story is fine. But that's it - oh and it's shot well. The script is woeful... the gags aren't comedy as I know them and I can only assume that Mr. Coogan as Producer, writer and star had far too much control and thought that if he picked his nose everyone should fall around in fits of laughter... well not me. He was daft - it was daft and Declan Lowney hasn't got a clue this side of Norfork.
The only reason Colm Meaney did this was for the money.
The premise and basic story is fine. But that's it - oh and it's shot well. The script is woeful... the gags aren't comedy as I know them and I can only assume that Mr. Coogan as Producer, writer and star had far too much control and thought that if he picked his nose everyone should fall around in fits of laughter... well not me. He was daft - it was daft and Declan Lowney hasn't got a clue this side of Norfork.
The only reason Colm Meaney did this was for the money.
Papadopoulos & Sons
(2012)
PoorAdoopo Dead loss! Awful
23 December 2013
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I have just had the misfortune to watch this, how it got green lit I have no idea, it is stilted beyond belief and ham acted over an awful or even woeful script. I would not say a bad word about the actors as it has to be the editor, director and writers fault... But mainly the Producers for green lighting.
The only saving grace was some good music and some well shot scenes. But that's it... At 109 minutes, you feel every single one of them. It's pacing is unbelievably slow and laboured. Once again back to the above - with pauses longer than a Chekov play and as a consequence render the opportunity for comedy impossible.
The only saving grace was some good music and some well shot scenes. But that's it... At 109 minutes, you feel every single one of them. It's pacing is unbelievably slow and laboured. Once again back to the above - with pauses longer than a Chekov play and as a consequence render the opportunity for comedy impossible.
Labor Day
(2013)
Yes but...
22 December 2013
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The first thing I will say is... It is beautifully shot every image is well thought out... so much so that each image lasts a lifetime. The film rambles and rambles and though it has a decent enough story at it's heart and is supported by some very good performances, it is another film that could do with at least 15 minutes cutting out.
Josh Brolin is the lynch pin (for me) of the film, his gravitas keeps a lid on it being too sentimental. The script is okay too but it is simply drawn out when they are packing up to leave, the damn thing goes on for about 2 minutes... I got it after 10 seconds.
Also this man has made a break from prison and when it starts reaching a point to get it together before he gets caught - well guess what. Then they tie the whole ting up in about five minutes.
The flash backs are vague and it seems that what the director wants us to be concerned with is the emotion - so as to the fathers reasons for leaving or his reason for being imprisoned - it's all there but it's all vague and left that way in favor of the quivering emotionality of the relationships - this could have been an excellent movie but misses for me. Josh Borlin though - he's the man!
Josh Brolin is the lynch pin (for me) of the film, his gravitas keeps a lid on it being too sentimental. The script is okay too but it is simply drawn out when they are packing up to leave, the damn thing goes on for about 2 minutes... I got it after 10 seconds.
Also this man has made a break from prison and when it starts reaching a point to get it together before he gets caught - well guess what. Then they tie the whole ting up in about five minutes.
The flash backs are vague and it seems that what the director wants us to be concerned with is the emotion - so as to the fathers reasons for leaving or his reason for being imprisoned - it's all there but it's all vague and left that way in favor of the quivering emotionality of the relationships - this could have been an excellent movie but misses for me. Josh Borlin though - he's the man!
The Barber
(2002)
I don't know why but I like it!
26 June 2012
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Malcolm McDowell just has the most wonderful charisma and he probably more than any other actor is the only person capable of making this work.
It has a few flaws and when we spend all of our time talking about character arcs - Dexter Miles has none. He is a brutal serial killer. We are given the facts via his own narration and the rest of the cast are the only one that are kept in the dark.
I've seen the I hate reviews and well though I see there point - I quite simply enjoyed the whole movie. Garwin Sanford is given a slating but feel he walks through with the character in true FBI fashion - there factual flaws - but I don't care. I enjoyed it and think you have to watch it... you will come down on one side or the other.
It has a few flaws and when we spend all of our time talking about character arcs - Dexter Miles has none. He is a brutal serial killer. We are given the facts via his own narration and the rest of the cast are the only one that are kept in the dark.
I've seen the I hate reviews and well though I see there point - I quite simply enjoyed the whole movie. Garwin Sanford is given a slating but feel he walks through with the character in true FBI fashion - there factual flaws - but I don't care. I enjoyed it and think you have to watch it... you will come down on one side or the other.
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