Russell

Russell

Co-founder of the Unnamed Footage Festival.
Co-host of the Footage Foreplay Podcast.

Favorite films

  • They Live
  • Fat Tuesday
  • Ghostwatch
  • Wizards

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  • Buffet Infinity

    ★★★½

  • Passenger

    ★★★½

  • Angel's Egg

    ★★★★★

  • Obsession

    ★★★★★

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Buffet Infinity
★★★½ Liked Watched

Buffet Infinity is a feature that tells its story through the progression of local access commercials. This couldn't be more up my alley. I love the plethora of assets needed to create a natural range of local commercials. Mise en scène via mall map is something I will never forget.

So why the 3.5 star rating? The way this fantastic ARG art was packaged as a feature film just didn't work for me. This awesome story telling device would be…

Passenger
★★★½ Liked Watched

Passenger succeeds as a fun horror genre exploration and flounders as a popcorn movie. I really enjoyed the haunted house on the road attempt, but not for the horror the trailer touted. I'm still having fun reflecting on some of the genre trope subversion. The couple being seen as outsiders by regular society is perhaps my favorite, especially when they are driven out by a neighborhood watch. Passenger is totally fine to catch on the couch, but if you find yourself struggling to get Obsession tickets, maybe go catch Passenger.

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Tiffany the Doll
★★★★ Liked Watched

You know how when a dead body is on screen for a long time and you secretly watch to see if they'll breathe? What if the dead body was openly breathing and a character aknowledged it while improvising his lines...

That's Tiffany the Doll in a nutshell.

The sets don't make sense. Homes are shot in hotels, bars are set in assembly halls, and everything else is in a sex shop. Day and night are irrelevant. Going to work means…