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TALLGRASS Film Festival 2017 REVIEWS: Bill Watterson’s DAVE MADE A MAZE is a hilariously creative and visual masterpiece

By Geoff Marslett 8 years ago

As fun as the entire cast and script are, the real cinema magic here are the visuals. The maze comes to life through a combination of live action puppetry, forced perspective, optical illusions, stop motion animation, and even a zoetrope.

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INDIE MEMPHIS 2017 REVIEWS: Noel Wells's Austin-based self-discovery comedy MR. ROOSEVELT dares you to watch it and not laugh

By Geoff Marslett 8 years ago

I’d compare the film to Mike Judge’s work, and I mean this as a gigantic complement. No single gag is necessarily fall out of your seat funny, instead they cumulatively charm you until you can’t seem to do anything except laugh at every interaction. She does this by not overly exaggerating any given moment in an unrealistic joke, but rather taking hundreds of totally believable ridiculous incidents and cramming them all together into one escalating funny movie-long joke.