My Grading System

A+ = Masterpiece (I hold back on this one.) / A = Great. / A- = Really Good. / B+ = Good. / B = Decent (Serviceable). / B- = Flawed but okay (For those times there's something redeeming about the work). / C+ = Not very good (Skip it). C = Bad. / C- = Awful. / F = Complete Disaster (I hold back on this one too).

Note on Spoilers: I will try to avoid ruining a story by going into too much detail. But if I wish to include some revealing points to my analysis I will try to remember to add a separate spoiler paragraph.

Monday, October 5, 2015

Starry Eyes (2014)

A young actress played by Alex Essoe is struggling to make it in the business.  Her friends are all bohemian artists from actresses and film makers.  Yet she’s the less talented of them all.   Finally one of her auditions goes well, and it looks like she’ll be able to quite her waitressing job and start her career as an actress.   Except the production company that is interested in her has other ideas.   I really enjoyed this low-budget fable about the taint of wanting to become famous at the point of literally selling your soul.  It’s a simple story but it works. It’s both gruesome and poetic as only a horror film can be.  Directed and written by Kevin Kölsch and Dennis Widmyer. B+

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