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The Rat Catcher (2023)
HANDS DOWN, THE BEST SHORT FILM I'VE EVER SEEN
This is why I loved watching British comedy when I was growing up, and it is why I loved reading books by Roald Dahl and other great children's authors. It is unnecessary to be spoon fed every single detail of a story; half the fun is using your imagination to fill in the blanks. It's why theatre is so amazing; because you have to pay close attention and watch for clues.
I was in tears of laughter throughout most of this performance. The entire cast, direction, and setting was perfection. No one attempted to steal the spotlight, but instead let the story be the vehicle and allowed the audience to take wheel for individual interpretation.
What initially seems like monotonous droning from the narrator in the early moments immediately becomes a point of humor, and in fact leads to the excitement of the climactic scenes.
Even after everything slows down and it seems like it's done, you still have to be on your toes or you might miss amusingly vital information in the concluding moments.
A thoroughly entertaining experience. I've watched it multiple times and have recommended it to everyone I know.
Section 8 (2022)
Justin FurstenFeld
To be clear, the A-listers on this dumpster-fire of a movie don't deserve a shout-out based on status alone; they did nothing and this movie is garbage.
However, all nine stars I assigned to this are for Justin Furstenfeld's performance. He was golden. I actually skipped backwards several times to listen to his lines again; he was fantastic.
Furstenfeld's was the stand out performance in a painfully atrocious film. How is it that he has almost no acting credits to his name and yet he stole the show?
To crown it all off, when Blue October's song "This is What I Live For," played in the end end credits I cheered. Furstenfeld is the lead singer for the band, and according to Wikipedia not only wrote the lyrics for the song but the most of the lyrics on the album it originates from. The guy knows how to write; no wonder he seems better suited to deliver lines than the other clowns in this film.
Hope someone sees this and puts him in more films.