In the first 6 minutes of this masterpiece of film making we have not only lots of incoherently-spliced together footage of Star Wars, there's also the Buck Rogers theme, sound effects from the original Battlestar Galactica and music from Flash Gordon.
Good lord.
I tried watching this. I really did, but when the first few minutes of the movie are
"So hey, you know how you designed this submarine and then we fucked you over and you quit, and then we made a bunch of changes to it without telling you? Well now that sub has lost contact and everyone is going to blame you for it something going wrong for some reason even though we changed all this stuff and you haven't…
At a brisk fifty minutes in length and with what seems to be a budget smaller than the amount I spend on coffee every month, Friend of the World feels like a student or arthouse project.
Filmed in black and white and shot more like a stageplay than a conventional movie, writer/producer/director Brian Patrick Butler has created something both striking and likely to divide audiences. Billed as a black comedy, it's one where you're either going to enjoy the humour…
Raine McCormack's film début The Village in the Woods is a bit Wicker Man, a bit The Ritual, with a smattering of Hot Fuzz sprinkled on top for added measure. Slow to start and requiring a bit of commitment on the part of the viewer for the first thirty minutes or so, it evolves into a disquieting little slice of cinematic creepiness.
Rebecca (Beth Park) and Jason (Robert Vernon) arrive at the remote and seemingly near-perpetually fog-bound village of Coppers…
