Film review – The Coffeehouse Writer

Who? What? Why? When?

Active Questions- Creswick (2016) Director and Writer Natalie Erika James; Writer – Christian White – Available online at <https://vimeo.com/157958148> Accessed on 1 st May 2018 Creswick is the story of a young woman helping pack up her father’s home, while both have the strange feeling they are not alone. The active questions come soon; WhoseContinue reading “Who? What? Why? When?”

Sneaky Speak.

Sneaky Pete (2015) Directed Seth Gordon; Written by David Shore and Brian Cranston. This is crime drama that Amazon keeps adding to my time line, so I thought would give in to peer pressure and watch it. Pete and Marius are in prison, Marius a ‘confidence’ man is getting parole, while Pete won’t be sleeping inContinue reading “Sneaky Speak.”

Words can Kill – The use of Dialogue

For this review, time was of an essence, so I watched a short ( and for those who are not aware sign up to http://www.shortoftheweek.com for some amazing short films. https://www.shortoftheweek.com/2018/04/18/writers-workshop/ Writer’s Workshop (2018) is an 11 minute dark comedy written and directed by Ryan Frances Johnson about Jeremy an aspiring writer attending a writersContinue reading “Words can Kill – The use of Dialogue”

“One Batch Two Batch…”

Daredevil Season 2 Episode 4 Penny and Dime – Dir: Peter Hoar; Written By: John C. Kelly We watch film and TV to escape, to forget and also to grow. Through these characters we according to Cohen (2013:183), expand are own ’emotional and mental lives’ beyond that of personal experience. We identify with both theContinue reading ““One Batch Two Batch…””

Redefining that Sinking Feeling

Get Out. Dir. Jordan Peel (2017) Multiple award-winning film, Get Out is marketed as a horror. Immediately I felt like I knew this film. It had the ring of a 70’s B movie, you knew what was coming, the tone was set. A black man walking a quiet suburban street in the dark ofContinue reading “Redefining that Sinking Feeling”

Sunrise: Raising the Film Game.

World Films 2015 Sunrise: A song of Two Humans. 1927. Dir: F. W. Murnau Ironically there is something to be said for silent movies, how the lack of dialogue seems to be a great conduit for increased expression, emotion and communication. The adage of actions speak louder is none truer than in this film,Continue reading “Sunrise: Raising the Film Game.”