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  • The Ballard of Wallace Island

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    The Ballard of Wallace island. I’m an awkward single man in his late 40’s. I mean I work a lot on being charming and just presentable but when I meet someone I really like or feel nervous the babble kicks in and I go out and try hard. Also, when I like to pretend I…

  • CSM Character Animation Showcase part 1

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    CSM HIGHLIGHT 2025 I have few rewards writing reviews. I always have tried to focus on the short films and independent features. A colleague of mine from my days at ‘The Sherlock Holmes Museum’ was kind enough to invite me and in the conversations in the industry about A.I I think it’s safe to say…

  • PARTHENOPE

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    Parthenope I’m 49 for less than a week. I look at young women in a very different way. Of course, when I was young, they are not y9oung women, they were just fit, and corn and hello would you like to see my space marines and anger and frustration and thankfully the internet didn’t exist…

  • Star Wars: Exhoes Of Darkness

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    Star Wars echoes of darkness Fan films are a tricky beast. The high bar being Star trek of gods and men, with original case. A feature length run time and no YouTube to ensure it would become exposed. But for every gods and men or batman vs predator there’s a hot take or Snyder verse…

  • Forgotten Routes – dir./scar Varta Arutyunyan, prod Bernhard Pucher

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    Forgotten Routes – dir./scar Varta Arutyunyan, prod Bernhard Pucher Minya Zhavoot Rob. Vada Looks at me quizzically. I’m saying my name is rob in Russian. It was an awkward way to get attention to compliment the film. Caroline tells me later just blurting the language of oppression is not helpful. Well, I’m sure as a…

  • easy Riders

    easy Riders

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    East Rider Billy the Kid and Captain America have become cultural icons , and yet they can never be invoked without some element of Hopper and Ford in the DNA. I’ve not seen Easy Rider since I was a proper teenager. I can’t even ride a bicycle let alone drive or a hog. I’M an…

  • A Complete Unknown

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     A COMPLETE UNKNOWN  Bob Dylan. He exists over my childhood. I mean his songs were there. I’m 48. Like every 48 year old I bought a bob Dylan album at some point in my life. Theres no particular album, like definitely maybe, or paranoid and Sunburnt from bands of my age, just something that will…

  • The Killers (1946)

    The Killers (1946)

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    fiction. the gumshoe character driven, where if you’re not sure what to do, have a dame or a man turn up with a gun in their hands. or the actual mystery. the train leaves two hours after the first one and has less stops could the killer have jumped carriages at MacGuffin vile. and that’s…

  • Timestalker (Alive Lowe)

    Timestalker (Alive Lowe)

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    TimeStalker, directed by the talented Alice Lowe I do not know Alice Lowe; I have had some small interactions over the years, from the odd tweets these days to the vague memory of her being in the groovy hip clique I created in my head. Swanning in the corner of some suave stylists with double…

  • The Outrun

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    The outrun (Nora Fingscheidt) Addiction. It’s something that evolves and erodes in people. When I say this, it’s not something I feel can be cured, but it moves in like the tides, affected by the nurture of our landscape, the nature of our passion and the turmoil that ebbs and flows. I know for myself…