Echo Chamber

So, @EchoChamberFP https://www.instagram.com/echochamberfp/ went to Raindance, BUT, life got in the way and we couldn't hit it like we do! HOWEVER, there's no leaving cats hanging, SO, we have a couple of films for you. PLUS, we sit with the highly talented Sharmay Mitchell and talk about her stop motion short, which got premiered at the festival. You can watch 'Part One' HERE: https://youtu.be/2UiT_W5julI and 'Part Two' HERE: https://youtu.be/uZTqfqhiQsM

This episode we have: 

A Bird Flew In

Watch Review: Here. https://youtu.be/cs5tqsmZBXc

Raindance Release Date: 5th November

Director: Kirsty Bell

Cast: Derek Jacobi, Jeff Fahey, Julie Dray, Sophie Kennedy Clark, Sadie Frost, Morgana Robinson, Camilla Rutherford, Michael Winder & Frances Barber

Credit: Goldfinch, MSR

Genre: Drama

Running Time: 95 mins

Cert: 15

Trailer: Here.  https://vimeo.com/559909490?embedded=true&source=video_title&owner=125660164

Website: Here. https://msrmediainternational.com/a-bird-flew-in/

Instagram: @abirdflewin https://www.instagram.com/abirdflewin/

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All Sorts

Watch Review: Here. https://youtu.be/A1IZ7f2JmW8

Raindance Release Date: 7th November

Director: J. Rick Castaneda

Cast: Eli Vargas, Greena Park, Luis Deveze

Credit: Vibrant Penguin

Genre: Comedy

Running Time: 90 mins

Cert: 18

Trailer: Here. https://vimeo.com/383417513

Website: Here. https://www.allsortsmovie.com/Twitter: @allsortsmovie https://twitter.com/allsortsmovie

Facebook: Here. https://www.facebook.com/allsortsmovieInstagram: @allsortsmovie https://www.instagram.com/allsortsmovie/

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'Sweet Lullaby' by Deep Forest - 1992

Now Lizzie II is a single gal again, she's clearly getting that action, as a bad back kept her from hitting those Remembrance Sunday celebrations! Energy company Good Energy all trying to work the PR angle by having a Kids Advisery Board. And of course dum dums ask if the world would be better with kids at the reigns. Cause unexperienced, hormone addled, is the foundation for good ideas!!! Durham University is trying to keep students safe, who have been doing sex work, BUT, Further Education Minister Michelle Donelan is looking for likes by saying they're wrong! In a move that is the very minimum and won't really do anything, YouTube are looking to be Wellness Heroes, by removing the 'Dislike' button from the platform! Travis, Drake & Live Nation are all bing sued, BUT, who's really to blame for Astroworld!?! We get into it, and more on this week's #EFTV 

PLUS, we got to relive that childhood joy, with a dose of beagle fun, as 'Snoopy In Space' is orbiting Apple TV+ and feels like it's imbuded with that Charles M. Shultz goodness!

AND, our 'Audible' book of the week, see's Jonathan French take us to the Lot Lands for the first part of his trilogy about a brotherhood of half-orcs, with 'The Grey Bastards'.

This week:

- The Queen misses Remembrance Sunday with a bad back

- The BBC asks "Would the world be better if it was run by teenagers?"

- Durham University getting heat for introducing a sex work safety course

- YouTube are claiming that removing the 'Dislike' button will improve the platform

- Who's to blame for Astroworld!?!

REVIEWS & RECOMMENDATIONS 

- TV: Snoopy In Space - S1

AUDIBLE

- The Grey Bastards - by Jonathan French

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'4 Am' (feat. Travis Scott) by 2 Chainz - 2017

And, in 'Part Three' of this week's @EchoChamberFP https://www.instagram.com/echochamberfp/ we take a look at a film that really has viewers' on the festival circuits nerves on eggshells. AND, after looking at the film, we had the opportunity to sit down with the enigmatic director, to discuss, his process, the film, and much, much more!!! You can watch HERE: https://youtu.be/BFcKP6h39Bs

And in 'Part Three' we have:

Masking Threshold

Watch Review: Here https://youtu.be/4jU_xKyKt3g

Fantastic Fest Release Date: 23rd September 2021Cucalorus Festival Release Date:11th November 2021Sick'n'Wrong Fest (Orlando) Release Date: December 2021

Shockfest Release Date: December 2021

Central Florida Film Fest Release Date: January 2022

Director: Johannes Grenzfurthner

Cast: Ethan Haslam, Katharina Rose 

Credit: monochrom

Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller

Running Time: 90 mins

Cert: 18

Trailer: Here. https://youtu.be/KgolHx2jWHk

Website: Here. http://www.monochrom.at/Twitter: @johannes_mono https://twitter.com/johannes_mono

Facebook: Here. https://www.facebook.com/masking.threshold/

Johannes Grenzfurthner @grenzfurthner directs and co-writes 'Masking Threshold' #MaskingThreshold with Samantha Lienhard @sdarigan

Conducting a series of experiments in his makeshift home-lab, a skeptic IT worker tries to cure his harrowing hearing impairment. But where will his research lead him?

Masking Threshold combines a chamber play, a scientific procedural, an unpacking video, and a DIY YouTube channel while suggesting endless vistas of existential pain and decay. Glimpse the world of the nameless protagonist in this eldritch tale, which is by no means for the faint of heart.

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Watch the conversation HERE: https://youtu.be/BFcKP6h39Bs

Johannes Grenzfurthner

Johannes wears many hats, he's an artist, performer, writer, and now filmmaker. Early on, he founded 'monochrom', an internationally-acting art and theory group. And serves as their artistic director. Film was calling him, so he then founded 'monochrom Propulsion Systems', a movie production company. 

He's directed a number of Short Films, starting with 'The Charcoal Burner' (2000).

2011 started his work in TV, with 'Monochrom's ISS'.

And the first of his documentaries came in 2015, with 'monochrom: 23 Works'.

He's also dabbled with video games, 'Soviet Unterzoegersdorf: Sector 1' (2005) and 'Soviet Unterzoegersdorf: Sector 2'  (2009).

The feature films started with 'Kiki and Bubu: Rated R Us' (2011), 'Die Gstettensaga: The Rise of Echsenfriedl' (2014), 'Glossary of Broken Dreams' (2018) and now we have 'Masking Threshold' (2021).

Follow Johannes via the following:ImbD: Here. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3654931/?ref_=tt_ov_drWebsite: Here. http://www.monochrom.at/Twitter: @johannes_mono https://twitter.com/johannes_monoFacebook: Here. https://www.facebook.com/grenzfurthnerInstagram: @grenzfurthner https://www.instagram.com/grenzfurthner/------------

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'Dead Man Walking' (feat. Future) by 2 Chainz - 2020

It's 'Part Two' this week's @EchoChamberFP https://www.instagram.com/echochamberfp/ and this time, we bring you three vastly different, BUT, very good films!, Starting on Apple TV+ with a story of friendship from the future, then it's over to Netflix for a book adaptation that hits a racial & cultural nerve. And then, what could be this generation's 'Love Jones'!

'Finch' is a new dystopian feature on Apple TV+, directed by Miguel Sapochnik and written by Craig Luck & Ivor Powell. On a post-apocalyptic earth, Tom Hanks is Finch, a man who embarks on a moving and powerful journey to find a new home for his unlikely family—his beloved dog and a newly created robot—in a dangerous and ravaged world.

Rebecca Hall adapts ‘Passing’, Nella Larsen's celebrated 1929 novel of the same name for the big screen! It tells the story of two Black women, Irene Redfield (Tessa Thompson) and Clare Kendry (Ruth Negga), who can “pass” as white but choose to live on opposite sides of the color line during the height of the Harlem Renaissance in late 1920s New York. After a chance encounter reunites the former childhood friends one summer afternoon, Irene reluctantly allows Clare into her home, where she ingratiates herself to Irene’s husband (André Holland) and family, and soon her larger social circle as well. As their lives become more deeply intertwined, Irene finds her once-steady existence upended by Clare.

'Really Love' is directed by Angel Kristi Williams and co-written by Felicia Pride. Set in contemporary Washington D.C., a rising black painter, Isaiah (Kofi Siriboe) strives to break into the competitive art world, while balancing a bittersweet romance he never expected with a strong & ambitious law student, Stevie (Yootha Wong-Loi-Sing) with her own dreams, aspirations, and desires.

In 'Part Two' we have:

Finch

Watch Review: Here. https://youtu.be/4uld5c1eKH4

Digital Release Date: 5th November 2021

Director: Miguel Sapochnik

Cast: Tom Hanks, Caleb Landry Jones, Seamus, Marie Wagenman, Lora Cunningham, Oscar Avila, Emily Jones

Credit: Amblin Entertainment, Reliance Entertainment, Walden Media, ImageMovers, Misher Films, Apple TV+

Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi

Running Time: 115 mins

Cert: 12a

Trailer: Here. https://youtu.be/-0bYWnP3jH4 

Website: Here. https://www.apple.com/uk/tv-pr/originals/finch/

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Passing

Watch Review: Here https://youtu.be/6Zki1e2dOfg

Digital Release Date: 10th November 2021

Director: Rebecca Hall

Cast: Tessa Thompson, Ruth Negga, André Holland, Bill Camp, Gbenga Akinnagbe, Antoinette Crowe-Legacy, Alexander Skarsgård

Credit: AUM Group, Film4, Flat Five Productions, Netflix

Genre: Drama

Running Time: 98 mins

Cert: 12a

Trailer: Here. https://youtu.be/trwq3CNCMkU

Website: Here. https://www.netflix.com/gb/title/81424320

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Really Love

Watch Review: Here. https://youtu.be/nuEeqTfsnl0

Digital Release Date: 25th August 2021

Director: Angel Kristi Williams

Cast: Kofi Siriboe, Yootha Wong-Loi-Sing, Blair Underwood, Uzo Aduba, Tristan Mack Wilds as Nick, Naturi Naughton, Suzzanne Douglas, Michael Ealy, Gina Jun, Jade Eshete, Marla Aaron

Credit: MACRO, Homegrown Productions, Netflix

Genre: Drama, Romance

Running Time: 95 mins

Cert: 18

Trailer: Here. https://youtu.be/7KKCnadBw7Y

Website: Here. https://www.staymacro.com/film/really-love

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‘Feds Watching’ (feat. Pharrell) by 2 Chainz - 2013

It's a HUGE shopping weekend, and this week's @EchoChamberFP https://www.instagram.com/echochamberfp/ is definitely ready to deliver the goods, at NO cost to your pocket, baby!!! We're bringing you three, that's right, THREE,flavourable chunks of enjoyment. And in 'Part One', we have a couple of Netflix joints. You get the lowdown on a sci-fi thriller, and then a Christmas love story!

Directed by Sita Likitvanichkul, Jetarin Ratanaserikiat, Apirak Samudkidpisan, Thanabodee Uawithya, Adirek Wattaleela and written by Sita Likitvanichkul, Kittitat Nokngam, Jetarin Ratanaserikiat, Apirak Samudkidpisan, Wisit Sasanatieng and Thanabodee Uawithya. 'Deep' follows four insomniac med school students, Jane (Panisara Rikulsurakan), Win (Kay Lertsittichai), Cin (Supanaree Sutavijitvong) & Peach (Krit Jeerapattananuwong) are lured into a neuroscience experiment that spirals out of control — and must find a way out before it’s too late.

'Love Hard' is directed by Hernán Jiménez, written by Danny Mackey & Rebecca Ewing.Telling the story of Natalie Bauer (Nina Dobrev), a dating column writer based in Los Angeles, who falls in love with a man named Josh Lin on a dating app and travels to his East Coast hometown to surprise him for Christmas. However, she discovers that she has been catfished, and Josh is really a nerdy man (Jimmy O. Yang). Her crush is actually called Tag Abbott (Darren Barnet) who lives in the same town and used to be Josh's best friend. So he offers to set Natalie up with him if she pretends to be his girlfriend for the holidays.

In 'Part One' we have:

Deep

Watch Review: Here https://youtu.be/ltDagxxRBgU

Digital Release Date: 16th July 2021

Director: Sita Likitvanichkul, Jetarin Ratanaserikiat, Apirak Samudkidpisan, Thanabodee Uawithya, Adirek Wattaleela

Cast: Panisara Rikulsurakan, Kay Lertsittichai, Supanaree Sutavijitvong, Krit Jeerapattananuwong, Warisara Jitpreedasakul, Dujdao Vadhanapakorn, Wongsakorn Rassamitat

Credit: Transformation Films, Netflix

Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller

Running Time: 101 mins

Cert: 15

Trailer: Here. https://youtu.be/CyEBaYYUroM

Website: Here. https://www.netflix.com/gb/title/81439267

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Love Hard

Watch Review: Here https://youtu.be/SvRLVZ5Zqfg

Digital Release Date: 5th November 2021

Director: Hernán Jiménez

Cast: Nina Dobrev, Jimmy O. Yang, Darren Barnet, Matty Finochio, James Saito, Harry Shum Jr.

Credit: Wonderland Sound and Vision, Netflix

Genre: Comedy, Romance

Running Time: 105 mins

Cert: 15

Trailer: Here. https://youtu.be/3boMRfx6cjE

Website: Here. https://www.netflix.com/gb/title/81086631

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'I'm Different' by 2 Chainz - 2012

In 'Part Two' of this week's @EchoChamberFP https://www.instagram.com/echochamberfp/ we take a deep dive on the the new adaptation of Frank Herberts interstellar adventure, set around the planet Arrakis! Not only do you get the review, 'Echo' style....BUT, you also get an in-depth (spoiler free) breakdown, which you can watch here: https://youtu.be/zvKGzFJq-Ms

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- Listen to 'Part One' HERE: https://www.podcaphilia.com/echo-chamber/ep169a

@EchoChamberFP https://www.instagram.com/echochamberfp/ this week, is an epic 'Two Parter'!!! In 'Part One' we have a new Shudder original modernising vampires, a sinister trip to the therapist, and a safe cracking prequel!

This week we have:

- Listen to 'Part Two' HERE: https://www.podcaphilia.com/echo-chamber/ep169b