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BORN TO BE BAD: INTERVIEW WITH DIRECTOR RICK SLOANE

Daniel Bernardi — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

After an eight year absence, Rick Sloane has finally made a comeback with a long-awaited sequel to his 1988 hit "Hobgoblins." Film Threat celebrates the long career of Rick Sloane and his return to the director’s chair with "Hobgoblins 2"...

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BORN TO BE BAD: INTERVIEW WITH DIRECTOR RICK SLOANE (PART 2)

Daniel Bernardi — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

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THE SAVIOUR

Daniel Bernardi — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

An enjoyable off-beat short film with brilliantly subdued performances along with excellent use of its basic few locations make for a pleasantly disturbing film...

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FEAST OF FRIENDS

Daniel Bernardi — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

An amazing roughly shot 16mm time-capsule into the private lives of The Doors which is a must for any major fan...

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CONTROL YOUR ANGER AT THE ANGRY FILM FESTIVAL

Daniel Bernardi — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

11th July, 2006 from 7pm. Held annually in the Melbourne suburb of Fitzroy, for one glorious jam-packed winter’s night we have The Angry Film Festival...

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DAVID HEAVENER SWINGS THE ANGEL BLADE

Daniel Bernardi — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

David Heavener is what you would call a ‘jack of all trades’. With a background in music, David wrote numerous Top Ten hit songs in Nashville prior to making the move to ‘LA LA Land’ to pursue a career in film. David is here today to talk about his belated controversial thriller “Angel Blade...”

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PRESENTING JENNIFER DELORA: HAMMINESS IS NEXT TO GODLINESS

Daniel Bernardi — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

The wacky, fun-loving Jennifer Delora carved her own little niche as a prominent B movie star for the better part of the 1980s which in-turn spilled into the 1990s. Don’t think for a second that there are simply bubbles blowing behind her lively character as she is armed with two .45s which come in the shape of a PhD in Psychology and Hypnotherapy...

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ALAINA

Daniel Bernardi — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

What would happen if one day the world disappears and you are the last person left on Earth?

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AUSSIE PARK BOYZ (DVD)

Daniel Bernardi — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

The voice-over that runs throughout the film including over the end credits sounds like it was recorded by Johnny Five on steroids...

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PUERTO VALLARTA SQUEEZE

Daniel Bernardi — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Welcome to Puerto Vallarta! The sun is hot, the culture is exotic and life is cheap, except when two American army officers are assassinated in broad daylight...

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TOUCH ME IN THE MORNING (DVD)

Daniel Bernardi — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

“Touch Me in the Morning” is the result of Giuseppe Andrews showing director Adam Rifkin a short documentary he made on trailer park resident Bill Nowlin, after which he offered Andrews, $1,000 to make a feature film...

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CREEP (DVD)

Daniel Bernardi — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

“Creep” has all of the elements necessary in order to create a great horror movie...

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CASSIE TOWNSEND: BLONDES HAVE MORE FUN

Daniel Bernardi — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Cassie Townsend is a relatively new addition to the film acting world. It only took Cassie three short years to land her first film role, playing Jenny in Alex Rebar’s “Sex, Pain and Murder” series of short films...

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WOLF CREEK

Daniel Bernardi — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

IN THEATERS! “Wolf Creek” is a seminal Aussie horror film...

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CARLITO’S WAY: RISE TO POWER (DVD)

Daniel Bernardi — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

All in all, “Carlito’s Way: Rise to Power” was entertaining to watch...

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ANGEL BLADE

Daniel Bernardi — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

“Angel Blade” is a sinister exercise in disturbing realism set amidst the seedy sexual underbelly of Las Vegas...

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WHO FLUNG POO (DVD)

Daniel Bernardi — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

“Who Flung Poo” is the story of an aspiring artist named Poo who paints with human excrement...

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BE COOL (DVD)

Daniel Bernardi — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

There is nothing worse than a microwave movie that doesn’t even supply any short term value whatsoever! Bear in mind while reading this review that I am an avid reader of Elmore Leonard and I am a huge fan of the book, so my opinion of the film is in comparison to the book. “Be [...]

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FIGHT FOR YOUR LIFE (DVD)

Daniel Bernardi — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

“Fight for Your Life” follows along similar lines of “Last House on the Left” only ten times better...

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RICHARD W. HAINES: UNSUNG HERO OF UNSUNG CINEMA

Daniel Bernardi — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

With Haines’ beginnings as an editor, it was always in the cards that he was going to make a film himself, only that dream came earlier than anyone would have thought in the profitable slasher debut “Splatter University”...

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RICHARD W. HAINES: UNSUNG HERO OF UNSUNG CINEMA

Daniel Bernardi — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

What kinds of jobs did you do while you were a struggling filmmaker? The first job I had after graduating NYU was working as an assistant editor and eventually sound editor on the low budget exploitation film, “Mother’s Day” in 1979/1980. I saw a post on the bulletin board seeking production assistants and called to [...]

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RICHARD W. HAINES: UNSUNG HERO OF UNSUNG CINEMA

Daniel Bernardi — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Your method of filmmaking is somewhat fascinating, giving a big break to many aspiring performers and aspiring filmmakers without experience who quite often cannot even get on a regular set even to get an autograph. How successful is your method of giving aspiring talent a foot in the door? A number of actors got their [...]

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GREGORY PAKIS AND GARTH PETRIDIS: METHOD TO THE MADNESS

Daniel Bernardi — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

In 2001, Melbourne based filmmaker Gregory Pakis was contacted by his cousin Garth Petridis from jail to turn his life story into a film...

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SOFT MONEY

Daniel Bernardi — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

HOT NEW INDIE! This film is likely to become Haines’ biggest success to date as it is a succinct, punchy, witty, fast paced cinematic triumph which achieves so much more than its low-budget would have allowed it to do on paper. Razor-sharp writing that could easily take an eye out...

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RAZOR EATERS

Daniel Bernardi — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

How does one write a review for the best Australian film ever made?

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THE GARTH METHOD

Daniel Bernardi — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

In 2001, out-of-work actor Garth Petridis was at the end of his rope after many years of rejection in the acting world. In a moment of desperation Garth decided that crime was his last resort in order to become a household name...

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DEBBIE DOES DALLAS UNCOVERED

Daniel Bernardi — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

An interesting little documentary which explores the mythology surrounding one of the most famous porn films of all time...

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BRITNEY POUNDS JUSTIN

Daniel Bernardi — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Britney is a hard working wife of a husband who pays no attention to her whatsoever...

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DIVINE RETRIBUTION

Daniel Bernardi — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

“Divine Retribution” is an overambitious attempt to tell a crime story out of sequence...

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GRIM

Daniel Bernardi — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

How happy would you be if the love of your life had just proposed to you? Over the moon, right? But there’s a catch. He tells you that he is The Grim Reaper...

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THE ACTRESS

Daniel Bernardi — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

In a charmingly crude little tale that almost everyone could relate to, supermarket manager Tom (Matt Hardie), office worker Kevin (Steve McCall) and gay university student Claire (Jodie Passmore) find themselves looking for a fourth housemate to move in after Claire’s lover breaks up with her and leaves the shared house...

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UNLOCKED

Daniel Bernardi — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Offbeat drama involving a single Mother raising a Teenage Boy who deadlocks his bedroom door constantly...

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TOP SPEED OF A RABBIT

Daniel Bernardi — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Highly amusing short film involves a seemingly naïve middle-aged man who is accosted by two beautiful ladies at a local watering hole...

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1982S

Daniel Bernardi — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Meet Poobert! He is a real piece of shit.

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THE INTRUDER

Daniel Bernardi — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

I was fortunate enough to have the opportunity to see this incomplete, unreleased Australian film from the early nineties, which was directed by MUFF founder Richard Wolstencroft...

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THE BROWN BUNNY

Daniel Bernardi — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

"The Brown Bunny" is a perfect portrait of human isolation on a cross-country trip...

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SNAP

Daniel Bernardi — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Do you ever get angry when you are at the movies and people around you are chatting, kicking your chair and letting their cell phones go off?

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ROAD TO REALITY

Daniel Bernardi — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

An easy watch that absolutely tears the concept of reality television to pieces in funny mockumentary style!

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WAITING ROOM

Daniel Bernardi — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

"Waiting Room" is one of the most original short films I have ever seen in a combination of David Lynch meets John Waters...

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A QUIET DRINK

Daniel Bernardi — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

“A Quiet Drink” was probably the most straightforward of all the short films I saw at MUFF...

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TAKE THE MUFF DIVE!

Daniel Bernardi — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

6TH ANNUAL MELBOURNE UNDERGROUND FILM FESTIVAL COVERAGE! Anything and everything is possible within any of the films found inside the MUFF program, from romance to action to necrophilia to shit eating – it’s all here and destined to satisfy a wide variety of acquired tastes which just goes to show how dangerous it can be when no-budget filmmakers have final cut!

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THE MONEY SHOT

Daniel Bernardi — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Here we have another subject that hardly any Australian films have historically dealt with and that is the porn industry...

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THE LATE SHIFT

Daniel Bernardi — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Paul Bell is a middle-aged office employee who appears to be all alone working late at night in a big corporation...

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INSIDE

Daniel Bernardi — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

How much technology is too much? And are we losing our humanity to evolution.

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MAX: A CAUTIONARY TALE

Daniel Bernardi — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

If there is one genre that is truly missing from Australian films, it would have to be psychological horror or even regular horror with a healthy gore-fest...

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WHO’S THAT KNOCKING AT MY DOOR (DVD)

Daniel Bernardi — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

In an obvious labor of love, Martin Scorsese had the idea to re-create the parallel between his blue collar neighborhood and the educated life just outside that parameter...

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THE FLESH TRIPLE FEATURE (DVD)

Daniel Bernardi — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

can tell you as a major film lover I first came into learned the name of Michael Findlay and his wife Roberta when I was a teenager, when I bought a copy of UK magazine Total Film and inside they had a “Video Nasty” section which talked about films such as “Blood Bath” (1976), “The [...]

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FISHNET (DVD)

Daniel Bernardi — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Director Mark Savage claims that “Fishnet was an experiment to make a personal film for an established market – the erotic thriller”...

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WHAT IS ROPAR?

Daniel Bernardi — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Welcome to the wild world of pop-artist Dennis Ropar. Art critics disagree with him but he makes more money than most of them. Ropar is creating fun art for the common folk which people can enjoy in a re-creation of the Andy Warhol styles from the sixties. Not bad for a Croatian guy from a [...]

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A BRIEF CASE OF ANONYMITY

Daniel Bernardi — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

A Man wakes-up beneath an overpass with a briefcase handcuffed to his wrist. He is unsure how he got there or what is inside the briefcase and as he runs back through time to remember the present, he realises that there is a reason why everyone is running from trouble. “A Brief Case of Anonymity” [...]

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MONSTER MAN (DVD)

Daniel Bernardi — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

"Monster Man" is the kind of film that a horror fan would write while making his first screenplay attempt, which is not to say that it is bad because it isn’t...

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CASSIE TOWNSEND: BLONDES HAVE MORE FUN

Daniel Bernardi — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Just who is Cassie Townsend? ^ I am a nurturing and friendly person who values family. Although sometimes a work-aholic, I have a very playful side. I love video games, playing Poker, and goofing off. The most popular description for me is weird. Being the girl next door from North Carolina making the big move [...]

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SEX, PAIN AND MURDER, EPISODE FOUR: RANGE OF CHANGE

Daniel Bernardi — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

After an array of sexual encounters, Jenny hits the sack for the night only to be accosted by a rapist who has snuck into her bedroom...

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A DIRTY SHAME (DVD)

Daniel Bernardi — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

“A Dirty Shame” is John Waters’ most no-holds-barred effort since his infamous “Pink Flamingos”...

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SEX, PAIN AND MURDER, EPISODE THREE: SEX AIN’T ALL THAT

Daniel Bernardi — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

The sharpest writing of the whole series...

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SEX, PAIN AND MURDER, EPISODE TWO: CASTRATION ELATION

Daniel Bernardi — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Castration Elation is all about that...

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RUN FOR COVER (DVD)

Daniel Bernardi — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Ever imagined what an out and out terrorist action film would look like if it were done by an indie filmmaker on a very low-budget?

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UNSAVORY CHARACTERS (DVD)

Daniel Bernardi — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

The film perfectly blends B&W classical film-noir with a more contemporary style of the same genre which allowed director and film pioneer Haines to explore the same themes in different periods...

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SEX, PAIN AND MURDER, EPISODE ONE: THE GIRLS NEXT DOOR

Daniel Bernardi — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Writer/director brings forth a relatively unknown series of short films which explore the nature of three roommates who all have very unusual days which they could call normal...

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CESSPOOL CINEMA: AN INTERVIEW WITH JOEL M. REED

Daniel Bernardi — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Since my first viewing of "Bloodsucking Freaks" when I was around fifteen, I was always disgusted yet obsessed with who would make such a film...

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CESSPOOL CINEMA: AN INTERVIEW WITH JOEL M. REED

Daniel Bernardi — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Did you help to bring Harve Presnell to the mainstream status that he is currently at? ^ Far from being his discoverer; however Harve Presnell was on the down swing when I hired him. Most people would only recognise Presnell’s emergence in film in the mid-1990s, most likely with his role in “Fargo” (1996). But [...]

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JACKLYN’S LICKS: SWIMMING UP MAINSTREAM

Daniel Bernardi — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

First off, I must say that you are much sexier than your doppelganger Jane Seymour. You put the temptress into her innocent image. Thank you. What is your birth name if not too personal? Well, what would be the point of a stage name if I was to answer that in an interview? I will [...]

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JACKLYN’S LICKS: SWIMMING UP MAINSTREAM

Daniel Bernardi — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Through the years I have noticed you have showed up in some mainstream and/or straight films such as 8MM (1999). How was your experience on the film and how long did you spend working on it? Who did you meet? “8MM” was a day shoot. I worked directly with the killer in the movie (I [...]

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JACKLYN’S LICKS: SWIMMING UP MAINSTREAM

Daniel Bernardi — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Jacklyn Lick’s name might fool people into thinking that she is just a sex fiend, well, it is really quite the opposite and it just goes to show you, never judge a name by the way it sounds...Jacklyn Lick can act, and well I might add...

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BLOODY MOVIE (DVD)

Daniel Bernardi — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

The copyright issue of the borrowed footage could have been one of the reasons that this film never saw the light of day until now...

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TENEMENT (DVD)

Daniel Bernardi — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

How I miss eighties exploitation!

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LURKERS (DVD)

Daniel Bernardi — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

The script was terrible, and very corny. I don't understand why Roberta agreed to film this movie from the script that was written...

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EXIT

Daniel Bernardi — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Two criminals break down on a deserted country road and inadvertently begin to analyse their lives. In the isolation there is really little else to do aside from lighting an occasional exhaust sized doobie from their incredibly large stash. One of the duo is introverted with crazy undertones while the other in a loudmouth moron [...]

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SNAP!

Daniel Bernardi — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

I don’t know what constitutes a short film these days, especially after watching something like this pointless nonsense. Two females play a game of Snap! But wait for this huge surprise of the year, each time they put down a card and the nude figures come alive in animation. That is it! I am not [...]

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CADENCE

Daniel Bernardi — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

One of the more inventive short films on the MUFF bill, “Cadence” tells the dismal story of a Man who can see clocks running down on top of everybody’s head which represent the time they have left on this Earth. He knows their fate in terms of when but in terms of how he doesn’t [...]

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