CST2CST Reviews

Big Sky: Let It Be Him (2021) Season 1, Episode 9

David E Kelly owe Elon Musk Money?

[4/10 · 25 February 2021]

I don't mind the show, it's mindless entertainment. I can stream it at any time and keep it on in the background. I do find a lot the characters choices ridiculous. IE she finds him in his home, knows he probably has the boy, then leaves to get back up and put a raid together? Why not just call it in? You have spent all this time trying to find him and now you have him in your sights and you leave??

But this episode - really is about Tesla. I have never learned so much about a TESLA then I did watching this show. It's awkward and seems forced into the dialogue.

Must pay to be clergy too. Found it a little odd the Tesla was the priests vehicle.

Murder Mystery (2019)

Fun, entertaining - exactly what you expect from Sandler and Aniston.

[8/10 · 15 June 2019]

I really enjoyed this film. I have only one issue....POSSIBLE SPOILER i'll try t be vague.....

IF no one in the room knew what he was going to do and say to everyone in the room when he greeted them - then how did they plan the murder so perfect?

I miss something?

Clear Lake, WI (2009)

For what it's worth...

[5/10 · 19 November 2009]

I had an opportunity to see and advanced screening of this film along with Q&A and I must say as a film buff, especially in the genre this film falls in, they did a pretty good job for what they had to work with. No real money, shooting in a small town far from any city with a handful of crew people and dealing with the elements. The films pacing only seems to suffer because of the lack of funds to add to the overall horror effect that we are so accustomed to seeing in movies today. Sure every once in while you get a Blair Witch and Paranamormal that explodes at the box office and delivers, but for everyone one of those you get hundreds with bigger budgets, actors that fail miserably in every facet, including acting and storytelling. This film wasn't bad; it won't go down in time as one of the best or even super memorable, but kudos to these guys who didn't sit on their ass and went out there and did it and for the most part using what they had, which wasn't much, delivered a pretty decent project with good production value.

A Coat of Snow (2005)

Pleasantly Surprised

[7/10 · 28 March 2006]

I got to see this film at the Silver Lake Film festival March 26th and when it first started I thought to myself "Oh no, please don't make have to sit through this." For starters - its hand held on a digital camera - being shot like a home video it's rough, it's raw its all over the place - and here I was thinking another Hack - with a camera - decided he was going to make a movie. Well i was pleasantly surprised.

The story revolves around a group of girls getting set to celebrate a bachelor party - thus is why the film is shot like a home video. As the night goes on nothing goes right - everything falls apart and big secret is revealed. I don't want to give the film away.

Anyway Gordy Hoffman re-affirms the number one thing that can take a film that doesn't look good, has no special affects - and remind us that even the worse visual conditions can be over looked when you have talented actors'.

It was no surprise to me that the actors rehearsed for years why the story was being developed. And it showed. I was quickly disproved that this was a hack who got a camera - he invested the time in the work and - The work paid off.

Just like "Thomas Vinterberg" Along with Lars Von Trier "founding "brothers" of dogme95, a set of rules dedicated to reintroducing the element of risk in film-making" with his classic Festen or US Title The Celebration, A Coat of Snow proves that people can and will be emotionally invested in a story - with out having to be dictated to by the Hollywood machine via sound tracks, cheap camera tricks as long as the fundamental instrument used to tell the story - in this case - the actors' - is well tuned.