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WHEN IT COMES AROUND REVIEW
This film, which was nominated for a BHS Short Film award, is insanely unique, yet suspiciously
familiar in a very good way.
15-year-old Stevey and his best friend, Jonathan, are contrasting students of Television Production
class. Stevey is an aspiring straight-A student, but Jonathan's directorial skills are lacking. When the course
final is due in the form of a short feature film, Jonathan panics to avoid failing the course.
Jonathan, played by fabulous actor John D. Burns, plays the bad-guy when he steals Stevey's
project and turns it in as his own. All seems well until Jonathan's film is entered into an enormous film-festival by
a highly-impressed teacher and wins first-prize.
Stevey has to get back at the back-stabbing deceiver, and he comes up with the perfect plan...
a robotic killing machine sent back in time...
A great spoof on The Terminator, I recommend this film to all indie fans.
BACK TO THE FUTURE, PART IV REVIEW
"Well Done!"
Marty is back and younger than ever in Back to
the Future Part IV. Marty is 13 years old in 1981, and his ordinary life is about nothing more than forming
his new rock-band "The Pinheads".
With the low budgeted style, the story is very slightly difficult to follow,
but not too badly. From what I can tell, in the year 2017, Biff, in his last few years of life, gets a gun.
He murders George McFly. 49 year-old Marty McFly is emotionally destroyed at the death of his father. (We all
know that George was going to die soon anyway, but there's no honor in being shot down.)
Marty steals a time-traversing wrist-watch from the Doc's lab after
hearing that Doc would not allow Marty to have it (for fear that something terrible would happen, or a paradox would be created,
etc). He traces the start of Biff's hate for the McFlys and discovers that they started their rivalry in 1951.
Marty takes the watch back to 1981 to give to his 13-year-old self,
along with detailed instructions to alter the past without changing the future...
At the risk of seeming stereotypically like Ebert & Siskel, I give
it two thumbs up and 3 1/2 stars out of 4! It does however lack audio richness, but is NOT low quality. Don't
take my word for it though, because I haven't actually seen the film. I've read the script and I've viewed the test-edit
run-through of the dress-rehearsals. You never know, the final project may be Dolby 5.1!
-Anonymous
That review was submitted to me through email by a man in virginia who insisted that I send him the
script and some footage. I'll just say he has a lot more free time than any single person should have...thanks though,
dude...
(the final version won't be in Dolby, sorry.)
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