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Night Freaks (2023)
Low Budget Time Suck
This is a super low-budget Kiwi sci fi about two random people abducted by aliens and given messages for humanity. This is their recollections after meeting on the spaceship.
This was filmed during New Zealand's Covid lockdown and is set in classic Kiwi mocumentary style complete with interviews.
There's the paper doll animation mixed with cheap CGI "recreations"; they throw in interviews with three unlikely "men in black"; there's some split screen shots; some amature song writing; full head alien masks; ridiculous paranoid conspiracy theories.
If you like low-budget light comedies, you might enjoy this... and if you don't, at least it's only 80 minutes long.
Cosmic Radio (2007)
Abysmal
Don't be swayed by the fake high ratings by accounts with no other reviews.
This is abysmal trash. It has poor acting without the comedic effect. It is slow without tension or atmosphere. It is so bad that it's bad. It doesn't go all the way around and become good again like The Room or Plan 9.
It's about an Owen Wilson imitator who wants to save his radio station by interviewing a protester in a tree trying to save a forest. Predictable plot with a predictable structure.
Not the worst film I've seen but not a long way off.
Everybody's Fine (2009)
Snuck Under the Radar
Everybody's Fine is a strong, sad film about family secrets that snuck in under the radar even with the star-studded cast that it has.
It's about a father who pushed his kids too hard that when they grew up they pushed him away.
There are some excellent performances and it started well with a few laughs. The ending was a little weak but fine, I guess.
Butt Boy (2019)
Ending pays off
The first hour is slow and perhaps this will turn people off but the final 30 minutes is worth it.
I'm a big fan of strange, absurdist films where the crazy premise is taken seriously by the film makers and, if you're the same, this won't disappoint.
Black Friday (2021)
A movie with little to say
What would happen if Ash never heard of the Necronomicon and lost his sense of humour?
Black Friday - an average HorrorCom without much com and even less to say.
Srpski film (2010)
How far can you go and still be art?
Looking at this from a film student point of view (even though I haven't been one in almost two decades) this film tries so very hard to smash their point into you. Over and over ... with a blunt instrument. "What is art?
It's not all bad. Positives include some foreboding, retro electronia, a couple of scenes so violently over-the-top that they bordered on parody and a solid, deliberate pacing that works to build tension.
However, there's just not enough effective film-making going on to hold the inadequacies at bay. It could have been much better and if a director like Lars von Trier had made it, it could have been good.