Midnight Screening

A minor gem for an unheralded work with no established actors. One - with no previous acting credits, only crew - struggled with timing, but stood out among the other cast members, and the characters they played were nicely fleshed-out. The manager was so downbeat and credible, I felt as if I knew him in real life.

Very limited budget shows, but is not allowed to hamper the tension building. The multiplex location is exploited to good effect, and there are inside jokes about infectious love for cinema.

The ending felt rushed after a leisurely seventy-five minutes of the eighty-minute runtime, but probably didn't really deserve more. The story was more a journey than a destination.

There seems a minor trend on streaming services towards family productions, with minor parts and behind the camera roles played by people with the same surname. If they were all as promising as this, the future of cheapskate filmmaking would be assured.