MISTRESS AMERICA (full review at The Reel Word)

Lonely and adrift at the start of her college year, Tracy Fishko (Lola Kirke) is encouraged by her mother to look up her soon-to-be step sister, Brooke Cardinas (Greta Gerwig), in New York City. The two hit it off immediately, and Tracy becomes enamoured with her older, confident friend’s bustling, sophisticated big city lifestyle. As Tracy orbits Brooke’s life, growing in confidence, the pair become good friends.

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IMDB: Mistress America

CUT SNAKE (full review at The Reel Word)

Sparra Farrell (Alex Russell) is living an idyllic lifestyle with a new job, a new house and beautiful soon-to-be wife, Paula (Jessica De Gouw). Just as things appear to be going well for them both, their life is interrupted by the arrival of Sparra’s old friend, Pommie (Sullivan Stapleton), an ex-con fresh out of prison and a link to Sparra’s secretive past.

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IMDB: Cut Snake

DEATHGASM - M.I.F.F. screening - (full review at The Reel Word)

Metalhead, Brodie (Miles Cawthorne), is sent to live with his devoutly Christian Aunt and Uncle in a new town. At odds with his bullying cousin and his relatives religious views, Brodie quickly finds himself an outcast. However he manages to befriend classmate Medina (Kimberley Crossman), fellow metalhead Zakk (James Blake) and form a band, the eponymous Deathgasm. Following the ill-fated discovery of some ancient sheet music known as The Black Hymn, the unwitting heroes manage to release a hoard of demons upon the townsfolk, and it’s up to them to set things right.

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IMDB: Deathgasm

RAIDERS! - M.I.F.F. screening - (full review at The Reel Word)

In 1981 three school friends correctly identified that Raiders of the Lost Ark is the greatest film of all time, and set out to make a shot-for-shot remake during their summer holidays. Seven summers later, with modest resources and a slavish attention to detail  Chris Strompolos, Eric Zala, and Jayson Lamb, finished Raiders of the Lost Ark: The Adaptation. Complete, all bar one scene, it was a remarkable achievement. Thirty-odd years later Chris and Eric reunited to film that missing scene properly, raising the money via investors and crowdfunding, and Raiders! charts their progress.

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IMDB: Raiders!

TURBO KID - M.I.F.F. screening - (full review at The Reel Word)

In an alternate 1997, the Earth is a wasteland, decimated by nuclear fallout. Humanity lives hand-to-mouth, scrounging for water and whatever remnants of their past society they can lay hands upon. We follow orphaned ‘Kid’ (Munro Chambers) as he befriends curious wasteland oddball, Apple (Laurence Leboeuf), and tough-as-old-boots water scavenger Frederic (Aaron Jeffery). Pursued by feral bad buys on bicycles, the Kid stumbles onto a ‘Turbo Suit’, incorporating an explosive power glove, which gives him the ability to take on evil apocalyptic warlord, Zeus (Michael Ironside), who is making everybody’s life a misery.

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IMDB: Turbo Kid

SPRING - M.I.F.F. screening - (full review at The Reel Word)

In the aftermath of his mother’s death, Evan (Lou Taylor Pucci)’s life is in turmoil. Thanks to a heady cocktail of grief, unreliable friends and some unfortunate circumstance, Evan finds himself needing to skip town in a hurry. After befriending a couple of English backpackers, Evan’s travels land him in a small Italian town where he decides to stay on for a while, scoring a job with a friendly local farmer (Francesco Carnelutti) and becoming instantly taken with the mysterious Louise (Nadia Hilker). As we follow Evan and Louise’s burgeoning relationship around the narrow alleys and blind corners of the quaint old town, it soon becomes apparent that things are not all as they seem and Louise harbours a guarded secret.

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IMDB: Spring

JOE DANTE (full article at The Reel Word)

With Explorers turning 30 this year, and his new movie Burying the Ex gradually getting a release around the globe, the time seems about right to celebrate Joe Dante’s eclectic back catalogue. It appears to be a recurring trend throughout his career that Dante’s movies are underrated upon release, only to find their audiences much later as beloved cult treasures. From his early days working for Roger Corman, through to his current stewardship of the excellent Trailers From Hell website, Joe Dante’s career has relished bringing the B-movie kicking and screaming into the mainstream.

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http://www.thereelword.net/reel-spotlight-director-joe-dante/


IMDB: Joe Dante