Tag: ellie church

Jessie’s Super Normal Regular Average Day (2019)

Posted on November 23, 2019November 24, 2019 by

It’s sometimes said that, at heart, all filmmakers are basically trying to make the same film every time, but I doubt I’m alone in appreciating it when they appear to go in wildly diverging directions from film to film – even if, deep down, they may be addressing some of the same essential ideas. Jessie’s […]

Amazon Hot Box (2018)

Posted on August 24, 2018August 25, 2018 by

James Bickert may well be the single best filmmaker in the contemporary US microbudget indie exploitation scene. The writer, director, producer and editor certainly isn’t the most prolific in his field, having made three films in the past decade (on top of his four earlier credits from the late 1990s, none of which I’ve seen), […]