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Stars: Dylan Baker, Becky Ann Baker, Bradley Stryker, Francesco Pannofino, Michael Pantozzi, Lorenzo Pisoni, Goran Ivanovski, Greg Hadley | Written by Brando Benetton, Los Silva | Directed by Brando Benetton

Forty one minutes seems like a very odd running time for any movie. Not really a short film but nowhere near the length of a full feature but that is how long Nightfire is… In the movie we see two American agents retrieve military chips containing top-secret content. But an unexpected political prisoner is picked in the process and turns things a little complicated.

In its short run time the film-makers try to throw in as many twist and turns as possible it seems. But to be fair to them,they do all work. They don’t feel like they have been thrown in there just to shock or just to take the story in another random direction. They all seemed pretty logical,...

The latest indie web series to feature a misanthropic lead characters is Snafu. Creator Chloe Sanders' look inside the life of a recently laid-off woman is a steady comedy propped up by a few laugh-out-loud gags. Sanders stars as Flo, who has recently been fired from her job after leaving a verbally abusive message on her boss' voicemail. As the first episode goes on, we learn exactly why Flo was fired: She's vain, self-important, and just plain snotty, even when talking to kids who are trying to raise money for their basketball team as part of the pilot's best gag). She has a bickering but important relationship with her roommate Eli (played by Michael Pantozzi), who is working on a MacGyver-esque show called Crafty Assassin (this is the pilot's second-best gag.) Snafu, which was funded last year by a successful $16,000 Kickstarter campaign, is best when it spares us the...