Edinburgh International Film Festival · 2009
Risk-taking movies, and rough and ready filmmaking - surely destined not to appear on your DVD shelves. See them where they belong at EIFF.
5 films · 5 reviews
Suffers from a lack of narrative tension.
(Country: US; Year: 2009; Director: Bob Byington; Writer: Bob Byington; Stars: Justin Rice, Kevin Corrigan, Pat Healy, Kristen Tucker, Alex Karpovsky, Allison Latta, Margie Beegle, Keith Poulson, Jeremy Pollet, Bob Byington, Bob Schneider, Nick Offerman, Suzy Nakamura, Blair Bomar, John Gatins)
Modern Love Is Automatic has so much fun stuff going for it I was really willing it to be a better movie.
(Country: US; Year: 2009; Director: Zach Clark; Writer: Zach Clark; Stars: Melodie Sisk, Maggie Ross, Hannah Bennett, David Berkenbilt, Monte Brown, Carlos Bustamante, Diana Cherkas, Ray Converse, Joel Esslinger, Leo Goodman, Matthew Hartman, Rebecca A. Herron, Christina Holleran, Lydia Hyslop, Lenny Levy)
In truth, it's all rather more miss than hit, but it's very hard not to have respect for Ryan Denmark's imagination - and when his flights of fancy score, they are complete slam dunks.
(Country: US; Year: 2009; Director: Ryan Denmark; Writer: Ryan Denmark, William Shakespeare, Jason Witter; Stars: Hannah Kauffmann, Jason Witter, Mark Chavez, Kate Schroeder, Reuben Finkelstein, Kevin R. Elder, Malcolm Madera, Shenoah Allen, George Bach, Elsa Menendez, Ross Kelly, Summer Olsson, Andy Brooks, Lucien Sims, Katy Houska)
Peter Ferdinando is excellent as the titular character.
(Country: UK; Year: 2009; Director: Gerard Johnson; Writer: Gerard Johnson; Stars: Peter Ferdinando, Greg Kam, Ricky Grover, Kerryann White, Frank Boyce, Sam Kempster, George Russo, Neil Maskell, Francis Pope, Mark Mooney, Vicky Murdock, Cyrus Desir, Lorenzo Camporese, Ian Groombridge, Lucy Flack, Frank Mccauley, Ian Kilgannon)
Screenwriters Eddy Moretti and Shane Smith play rather too fast and loose with the facts at times.
(Country: UK; Year: 2009; Director: Dominic Murphy; Writer: Eddy Moretti, Shane Smith; Stars: Edward Hogg, Carrie Fisher, Muse Watson, Kirk Bovill, Clay Steakley, Raymond Waring, Wallace Merck, Allison Varnes, Damian Samuels, Stephanie Astalos-Jones)
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