The Snowmen, an Independent Film From Chicago On Monday, November 18, 2019, in Jambalaya Arts, Inc., Oshkosh, Wisconsin, I had the honor of showing my film Francium (available for viewing on YouTube Channel John Berner) to an audience including two people in independent film from Chicago, Olivia Lilley and Harley Foos. Francium preceded The Snowmen (2019), a twelve minute film with a dynamic presentation in sight and sound. Olivia Lilley, the film's writer and director, has a theater background, works well with the actors. A theater director making her first film, Olivia Lilley uses widescreen and a color palette often saturated with overhead lighting. The sometimes garish lighting reflects on the situations of the group of friends acting as irritants towards each other. Regretfully, I've seen the film just once--there were several stoppages caused by buffering, too--so my tota...
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Anonymous Gambler Wild Card (2015), directed by Simon West, showed me that Jason Statham is a good actor. I got a glimpse of his abilities in Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels (1999). As part of an ensemble cast with many memorable performances, Statham held his own at a time when he wasn't much known in cinema universe. By the time of Wild Card , Statham had joined the Fast and Furious franchise and had appeared in several of his own star vehicles, emphasis on "special set of abilities a characteristic of someone capable of kicking ass." In Wild Card , Statham's name is, improbably, Nick Wild, not Gunther Horgendorfer or some other uncool-sounding name. He's a hardcore gambler, will blow fifty-thousand in one night. A woman friend of his gets raped and beaten by a slick gangster who needs protection in the form of chunky bodyguards. The gangster put his gun barrel into the woman's ...