A personal journal of film and documentary reviews, and reviews of anything else that intrigues me.
Reviews of films made in Canada and United States including all films made by Hollywood.
Jesse Lupini, “Iteration 1” (2016) Made for a Canadian film festival in which the objective was to shoot a film and complete its post-production in the…
David Karlak, “The Candidate” (2010) Entirely driven by character and dialogue, this interesting character study of a corporate middle manager, ambitious and not a little sociopathic…
Anthony Ferraro, “Aeranger” (2019) A twelve-minute film about an alien crash-landing somewhere in North America thousands of years ago when mammoths were still roaming the continent…
Ryan Turner, “A Date in 2025” (2017) Goofy teenage romantic comedy about a socially awkward and self-conscious young man meets insidious panopticon nanny-state, courtesy of artificial…
Aly Migliori, “After Her” (2018) A young man, Callum (Christopher Dylan White), goes in search of a young woman, Hayley (Natalia Dyer), five years after she…
British Films, North American Films
Daniel Prince, “Invaders” (2018) Playing as a homage and parody of the 1980s film “Batteries Not Included” in which a bunch of tiny extraterrestrial cyborg spaceships…
Ryan Patch, “Regulation” (2019) Set in the not-too distant future, in perhaps a post-industrial / hyper-cybernetic age, this short film character study is an intimate and…
Rian Johnson, “Knives Out” (2019) At times playing like a spoof of the classic whodunnit murder mystery that takes place in a palatial mansion and the…
Patrick Kalyn, “Hybrids” (2013) This sci-fi live action short seems to have been made as a proof-of-concept film to promote an idea for a television series…
Nicholas Wenger, “The Kid” (2018) “The Kid” is a six-minute proof-of-concept film made to demonstrate the potential of certain themes and issues that a longer and…