SHE’S ALLERGIC TO CATS ** U.S.A. 2016 Dir: Michael Reich. 82 mins Michael is an aspiring filmmaker stuck in a dead end job as a dog groomer while trying to get his film, a remake of 1978’s Carrie starring cats greenlit in Hollywood. Then, he meets Cora and begins to…
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Diary Of A Desperate Housewife! Cecilia, a haughty aristocrat who enjoys taunting her servants with her flawless physique, finds her life turned upside down when she is violated by the victims of her vicious games. This eye-opening experience leads the newly enlightened libertine into a sordid series of swingin’ socialite…
MARY REILLY *** USA / UK 1996 Dir: Stephen Frears. 108 mins Adapted by Christopher Hampton from Valerie Martin’s novel, this tail-end entry in Hollywood’s early 90’s Gothic horror cycle (spun off from Coppola’s BRAM STOKER’S DRACULA) was a costly failure at the time and misleadingly sold as a full-blown…
BY DAYS END ** USA 2020 Dir: Michael Souder. 74 mins Troubled couple Carly (Lyndsey Lantz) and Rina (Andrea Nelson) move into a run down motel. Carly has dropped out of med school to pursue a career as a videographer with Rina applying to be an attorney but gets pipped…
WASTELANDS **** UK 2020 Dir: Kemal Yildirim. 97 mins Natasha Linton is outstanding in this extension of co-writer / star / director Kemal Yildirim’s stark short SAUDADE (2017), with some of the same cast. WASTELANDS intensely unfurls an unflinching portrait of one deeply troubled young woman. Living in the family…