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I was intrigued with the concept of Erasing David – could someone living in the world’s third most surveilled country, just disappear and survive for a month without being found? It’s a concept that film maker (and star of the documentary) David Bond investigates in Erasing David. He starts off by employing private investigators Cerberus Investigations Limited to attempt to locate him, giving them a month to do so, then attempts to drop off the grid. Fortunately the documentary is a little more than just this, as the first thing Cerberus do is grab David’s garbage and discover his initial travel documents.
Spliced in with his life on the run from Cerberus, are a few different aspects of living in our modern, invasive society. David decided to enact the privacy act, requiring businesses to send him all the information he has on them. The amount of information he receives back from some companies is staggering to say the least.
David also interviews a couple of people who have been arrested for crimes they didn’t commit but have been linked to through identity theft, and proves the point that mud certainly does stick.
But the main focus, and the reason most people will be watching Erasing David is to see how long a clued up guy can evade two private investigators. Luckily Cerberus don’t have access to Britain’s massive array of CCTV cameras or facial recognition scanning, if they did, David would have been toast. Read the rest of this entry »
“Project X” follows three seemingly anonymous high school seniors as they attempt to finally make a name for themselves. Their idea is innocent enough: let’s throw a party that no one will forget… but nothing could prepare them for this party. Word spreads quickly as dreams are ruined, records are blemished and legends are born.
On his way to the store to buy wood glue, Jeff looks for signs from the universe to determine his path. However, a series of comedic and unexpected events leads him to cross paths with his family in the strangest of locations and circumstances. Jeff just may find the meaning of his life… and if he’s lucky, pick up the wood glue as well.
Grace (Eva Mendes) is a single mom. She is too busy juggling work, bills, and the very married Dr. Hartford (Matthew Modine), to give her daughter, Ansiedad (Cierra Ramirez) the attention she desperately needs. When Ansiedad’s English teacher, Ms. Armstrong (Patricia Arquette), introduces her students to classic coming-of-age stories, Ansiedad is inspired to skip adolescence and jump-start her life without mom. While Grace becomes preoccupied with the increasing affections of her co-worker (Eugenio Derbez), Ansiedad enlists the help of her loyal friend, Tavita (Raini Rodriguez), to plot her shortcut to “adulthood”. But as her misguided plan unravels, Ansiedad and Grace must learn that sometimes growing-up means acting your age.
Despite opening with every cliché under the sun, The Veteran shows promise in the early scenes as Miller (Toby Kebbell), a soldier freshly back from active duty in Afghanistan (and showing several signs of PTSD) finds himself out of place in a world which seemingly has no use for a man with his particular skill set. After falling into some kind of clandestine operation run by the shady brother of his friend, Miller finds himself tracking a terrorist operation, utilising the services of informant Alayna (Adi Bielski). While it’s not exactly new territory, there is enough there to craft a suitably interesting story, yet The Veteran is hampered by a secondary story involving Fahad (Ivanno Jeremiah), an old friend of Miller’s, who is having troubles with the local gang. Read the rest of this entry »
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