Film nights being one of the best (and classiest) ways to spend a Saturday, last night’s showing was small-release indie Skeletons. A synopsis would ruin the experience of watching it a little bit, so I’m not giving you an outline. It feels like a low-budget Inception or Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind with Midlands accents. It’s an entertaining film, quite funny at times – intriguing, even – but the methods of worldbuilding give the impression that writer/director Nick Whitfield was just making it up as he went. Will Adamsdale’s protagonist is cartoonishly played; the cast of secondaries find themselves in dire need of more development. But it’s good. It’s an interesting idea played out well in a tight script, which is all I wanted, really.

Film nights being one of the best (and classiest) ways to spend a Saturday, last night’s showing was small-release indie Skeletons. A synopsis would ruin the experience of watching it a little bit, so I’m not giving you an outline. It feels like a low-budget Inception or Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind with Midlands accents.

It’s an entertaining film, quite funny at times – intriguing, even – but the methods of worldbuilding give the impression that writer/director Nick Whitfield was just making it up as he went. Will Adamsdale’s protagonist is cartoonishly played; the cast of secondaries find themselves in dire need of more development.

But it’s good. It’s an interesting idea played out well in a tight script, which is all I wanted, really.

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