To regain their freedom, convicted criminals are put into an arena where they need to fight their way to freedom, facing 7 merciless killers in 7 rooms made to get them killed.
Category Archives: Movie Reviews
Bandits of Orgosolo (Banditi a Orgosolo) (1961) [Radiance Films]
Out on Blu-ray and 4K UHD June 25, 2024
A wrongly wanted man runs for the authorities while setting him his flock of sheep for survival and teaching a younger shepherd the ropes.
Listen Carefully (2024)
A bank manager and new father with a dark secret sees his baby daughter kidnapped when a mystery man calls him to get him to jump through hoops to get his child back safely.
You Are Here (2023) [Dances with Films 2024]
Michael Friberg’s “You Are Here” doesn’t feel so much like a movie as it does a three part sketch or some kind of extended commercial. Friberg insists in staging a movie that has no huge stakes or interesting character depth. For that I have to respect it, but I also didn’t care much for it.
Consumer (2023) [Chattanooga Film Festival 2024]
So Long and Thanks for All the Dangerous Visions Shorts Block
I wish we could have gotten a longer format version of “Consumer,” as Matthew Fisher’s horror tale is ripe for feature film potential. “Consumer” watches like a segment from “Creepshow” even packing in a wonderful synthesized score by Bethany Farnsworth, respectively. I loved the low tech, mid-eighties revenge tale that director Fisher creates, as it’s old fashioned enough, but never feels dated, or dull.
It works well within its short run time and offers some scary ambiguity in the end.
Sympathy for the Underdog (Bakuto gaijin butai) (1971) [Radiance Films]
Out on Blu-ray and 4K UHD June 25, 2024
When a big gang from Tokyo moves into Yokohama, the local gang needs to relocate and start over, leading to violence and confrontations.
Like Me (2024) [Chattanooga Film Festival 2024]
Watch These Films (WTF) Shorts Block
There are a growing number of short films surrounding the concept of social media and Ashley Thomas runs wild with the concept. “Like Me” doesn’t have a narrative or much of a whole structure behind it, but it at least makes up for it with a punch of a final scene emphasized with some excellent make up.