a creepy British horror film/ghost story that often feels like a throwback to a Hammer picture of the 1970s (something like ‘Scream and Scream Again’ or ‘Corruption’) Split between a haunted house and a very un-PC insane asylum, the movie keeps you off balance from beginning to end. Somewhere Peter Cushing is smiling.
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My Tinder with Andre 2021
Sweet indie about two Atlanta college students meeting for a first Tinder date. With a title borrowed from the Louis Malle gabfest classic this charming, almost real-time character study is also reminiscent of Richard Linklater’s ‘Before’ movies and his wandering-around-Austin classic ‘Slacker.’ The two leads - Amber Laird and Jordan Iacovella (who also get writing credits) - have a down-to-earth charisma and writer-director Logan Austin gives the story a real sense of place by rooting the picture in an interesting…
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La Sincérité 2018
Wannabe Woody Allen film about a writer-director who invites several beautiful women to a remote country house to make a movie that never happens. The combination of navel gazing philosophizing and the jazz soundtrack aims for vintage Woody but the result is more like a lesser Henry Jaglom flick. The beautiful scenery and music make the 85-minute picture watchable but still it is a rather uninvolving week in the country.
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