SO Unreal (2023) Fantastic Fest

Narrated by Debbie Harry this is  look the history of cyber cinema and how technology was viewed over the years.  Interesting to a point, I’...

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Bark (2023) Fantastic Fest 2023

  Love it or loath it film is the story of a man who wakes up shackled to a tree. Why is there isn’t really clear. Things become complica...

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STORM (2023)Beyond Fest

A couple wake up to noises in their house- going to investigate they eventually discover an intruder in the house. And that’s really all I...

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FIORETTA (2023) WOODSTOCK FILM FESTIVAL

This is a look at lawyer and genealogist Randy Schoenberg and his teenage son Joey Schoenberg as they travel through their family history ...

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MASTER OF THE HOUSE (2023) Vancouver International Film Festival

Young sommelier​ working at a fancy restaurant has to choose between friendship and advancement when a noted food critic arrives to do a ...

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SRI ASIH: THE WARRIOR (2023) Fantastic Fest

This is just a quick note to say that you need to see this marvelous comic book film. This is going to be a quick note because the screene...

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La Práctica (2023) NYFF 2023

Droll comedy about the owner of a yoga studio who has to deal with running his business and various personal relationships. Martin Rejtman...

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Human Surge (2023) NYFF 2023

People wander through various locations and talk about things. You are going to either love this film or hate it. Odds are you are going t...

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Brief NYFF 2023 reviews: NIGHT VISITORS, ALLEN WORTH, NOWHERE NEAR and THE STRONGER

NIGHT VISITORS Documentary/essay on moths morphs into a pondering of life on a larger scale. This is a gorgeous looking film that not onl...

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Thoughts on THE BOY AND THE HERON (2023) NYFF 2023

When THE BOY AND THE HERON was opening in Japan no images other than a single one of the heron was release and there was no effort to expl...

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GAMMA RAYS (2023) San Sebastian 2023

This is the story of several young adults on the fringes of their groups and what happens to them. I’m sorry if that doesn’t tell you a gr...

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Clem Gharini Head of VFX at Escape Studios

Clement Gharini  - Head of VFX Escape Studios has a new Head of VFX - we're proud to congratulate compositor and cinematograph...

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AIMEE: The Visitor (2023)

AIMEE is a compact little thriller cashing in on the fact that AI is in the news. The film has a hacker downloading the ewest AI program, ...

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There is Something in the Barn (2023) Fantastic Fest

Destined to be another Christmas classic THERE IS SOMETHING IN THE BARN is a wickedly funny holiday horror film in the RARE EXPORTS territ...

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Before The Sunset (2023)

BEFORE THE SUNSET is a small gem of a film. It doesn’t really do anything we haven’t seen before but it does it extremely well and keeps u...

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Falling Dice in Maya - Rigid Bodies Tutorial

In this short beginners' tutorial in Maya, students learn how to animate dice falling and bouncing onto a hard surface, without doing ...

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A Silence (2023) San Sebastian 2023

A family implodes in the wake of a scandal. Beautifully shot and achingly acted film should have been one of the best films of the year bu...

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SUBURBAN TALE (2023) ( aka Tamso) Fantastic Fest 2023

Prodigal daughter returns home for a family wedding only to discover they are hiding the fact that one of their members is possessed by a ...

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Falling Stars (2023) Fantastic Fest

  This is a small gem of a film. Wonderfully not what you expect, this is a film you really need to see. The plot as stated by the press ...

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2023 Escape Studios VFX Reel

We're proud to release the official 2023 Escape Studios VFX Reel.  This latest edit of the very best vfx created by our students at Es...

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MAMI WATA (2023) opens Friday

MAMI WATA is a beautiful black and white fable that needs to be seen on a big screen. Telling the story of a village that is watched over ...

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A SHINING EXAMPLE (2023) Fantastic Fest

Put upon woman who realizes that she has worked out the whole series she is writing in her head, instead has to contend with a needy child...

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UCAS Applications for Sept 2024 Now Open

UCAS - deadline 31 January 2024 UCAS applications for Escape Studios for September 2024 are now open - the deadline to apply to st...

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Abel Gance's LA ROUE At NYFF 2023

This is the post I published at IMDB in 2008 Abel Gance's monstrously long tale of a train engineer. his son and the girl he takes in...

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VISITORS (COMPLETE EDITION) (2023) Fantastic Fest 2023

Kenichi Ugana’s kick ass VISITORS (COMPLETE EDITION) is the expansion of his kick ass short film which played around the world las...

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The Giant Gila Monster (and Killer Shrews) hits home video in a loaded Blu Ray DVD release 9/26

I don’t buy or get physical media much anymore. Don’t get me wrong I have thousands of titles in my collection but the fact that I am gett...

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The Wait (2023) Fantastic Fest

Director F. Javier Gutierrez's THE WAIT is a genre bending film  that never quite nails down what it wants to be.  The film is the sto...

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Spooktacular (2023) Fantastic Fest

SPOOKTACULAR is a look at the legendary horror theme park Spooky World which in its heyday operated  the entire month of October in Merlin...

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UÝRA THE RISING FOREST on PBS 9/25

With UYRA THE RISING FOREST playing  on PBS's POV on the 25th here is a brief  repost of the review I ran when it played Human Rights ...

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Last Stop In Yuma County (2023) Fantastic Fest

Knife salesman on the road pulls into a gas station to fill up and find the tanks are dry. They are expecting a delivery at any moment. If...

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2D Compositing Taster Day Sat 14th Oct 2023

2D Compositing  Taster Day on Sat 14th October 2023 Escape Studios is hosting  an in-person taster in 2D Compositing on Saturday ...

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