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‘Save Yourselves!’ directed by Alex Huston Fischer and Eleanor Wilson

Movie, 2020 A likable, part sci-fi, part-satire kind of whimsical apocalypse movie, in which the main characters combat little furries and a minimal effects budget, to reasonably good effect. Not everyone will get on with the goody-goody dynamic here, but the main problem, for me, was that at some point, rather than let the plot fizz and fulfill its trajectory, a quite limp, rather shrugged off…

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 Olivia Colman (The Favourite) and Oscar nominee Dev Patel (Slumdog Millionaire) have been set to lead “twisted” romance Wicker, which Black Bear will be launching for sales at next week’s AFM.

Colman will play a “smelly Fisherwoman” who sparks outrage and jealousy in her conservative town due to an unconventional romance. 

Alex Huston Fischer and Eleanor Wilson (Save Yourselves!) will direct from a script they adapted based on the short story The Wicker Husband by Ursula Wills-Jones.

The project isn’t currently a SAG production and is not due to film until mid-late next year in Europe.

The official synopsis reads: “On the outskirts of a village by the sea, lives a Fisherwoman (Olivia Colman); smelly, single and perpetually ridiculed. One day, fed up with her stuffy, small-minded neighbors, she commissions herself a husband to be made from wicker (Dev Patel). In an otherwise conservative town, this unconventional romance sparks outrage, jealousy and chaos.”

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Some films I would recommend for anyone to watch!

(Specifically cool people)

Appropriate Behavior (2014)-Desiree Akhavan

Pieces of April (2003)-Peter Hedges

Linda Linda Linda (2005)-Nobuhiro Yamashita

Twins in Paradise (2020)-Victoria Vincent

Catscape (2019)-Victoria Vincent

Cat City (2017)-Victoria Vincent

Kiss of the Rabbit God (2019)-Andrew Huang

Lily Chan & The Doom Girls (2020)-Andrew Huang

The Sarah Vaccine (2021)- Sarah Sherman

Strawberry Short-Cut (1991)-Tom Rubnitz

Pickle Surprise (1989)-Tom Rubnitz

Tampopo (1985)- Jūzō Itami

Supermarket Woman (1996)-Jūzō Itami

Brain Dead (Dead Alive) (1992)-Peter Jackson

Bad Taste (1987)-Peter Jackson

Meet the Feebles (1989)-Peter Jackson

The Final Exit of the Disciples of Ascensia (2019)-Jonni Phillips

May I Please Enter? (2018)- Alan Resnick

Snowy Bing Bongs Across the North Combat Zone (2017)-Rachel Wolther, Alex Huston Fischer

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SAVE YOURSELVES! (2020) dir. Alex Huston Fischer and Eleanor Wilson

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Adventure  Comedy  Sci-Fi

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Snowy Bing Bongs Across the North Star Combat Zone (2017)

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Save Yourselves! // Alex Huston Fischer, Eleanor Wilson // 2020

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Save Yourselves! (2020) Alex Huston Fischer, Eleanor Wilson.

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Jack and Su need a change. Between work and their phones, they feel stuck in a boring cycle. They want to live more fulfilling lives while they can. So they turn off their phones and head to a cabin upstate for a week to reset their brain chemistry and figure out who they are. When the world ends, they don’t hear about it.

Save Yourselves! (2020) is about the experience of millennials entering their thirties: no real skills, overwhelmed with the state of the world, and attached to the internet against their will. It’s about the fear that if you turn off your phone you might miss something big. Like really big. 

This film has a respectable amount of seriousness for itself. The themes are clear, but there’s also room for the simple thrills of a sci-fi horror comedy. It’s a lot of fun and I’m glad it exists.

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Save Yourselves! (2020) Review

Save Yourselves! (2020) is one invasion where you'll be rooting for the aliens. #Review

There’s a lot of potential in hipster alien invasion comedy SAVE YOURSELVES! but the main characters’ self-absorption never manages to translate to an absorbing viewing experience, leaving the film something of a underdeveloped curiosity. After some disappointing professional developments, a young Brooklyn couple decide to unplug from the ditigal world and head upstate to a remote cabin where…

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Thank you for stopping by Vogue! 

(but truly thank you to Alex Huston Fischer and Eleanor Wilson for making this with me very last minute for a live show in 2018. And of course thank you to sex god Seth Bogart)

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Save Yourselves!

Save Yourselves!    [trailer]

A young Brooklyn couple heads to an upstate cabin to unplug from their phones and reconnect with each other. Blissfully unaware of their surroundings, they are left to their own devices as the planet falls under attack.

At times I wasn't entirely sure if they knew how ridiculous they sounded. But it's a lot of fun to watch the two with their positive attitude and enthusiasm, and how they master difficult situations. They are a great couple.

This nice little indie film is a welcome diversion in these dark times. I hope it will become more popular.

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Movie Review: Save Yourselves!

Sci-fi is a hard genre to fit into low-budget indies. I’m not saying it’s not possible and can’t be pulled off, but it is hard on a low budget. A lot of sci-fi demands big production design, special effects, sets, costumes and make-up. Every now and again you get a movie like Duncan Jones’ Moon made on a budget of $5 million, but they are few and far between. If you try to squeeze a big budget movie that should be done for $50 mil. and do it on a budget of under $1 mil., the film is going to suffer. Which brings us to my review of the new indie film Save Yourselves!, which opened in theaters last week and digital this week.

movie poster

A Brooklyn couple played by John Reynolds (Officer Callahan on Stranger Things) and Sunita Mani (Arthie on Glow) who have been staring at their screens too much go to Upstate New York to unplug for a week. While their phones are not on, they are unaware that the world is under attack from fluffy aliens that resemble Star Trek’s Tribbles. In terms of doing sci-fi on a budget, I think the filmmakers handled it well. The aliens are seen here and there and are more creature effects then CGI effects.

Mani and Reynolds addicted to their devices

The problem I had with this movie was not sci-fi on a low-budget. It was that this started out as such a great premise for a movie. You begin with an idea that can work for a low-budget indie: limited cast, limited locations, something to say about the society’s over-reliance on cell phones, etc. But somewhere around the half-way point of the movie once the characters learn what’s happening, the script didn’t know where to go or where to land. There was so much potential and it didn’t live up to it. But the two leads are great and show that they can carry a movie. There’s also a funny cameo from Ben Sinclair of High Maintenance. But overall, just save yourself some money and watch Stranger Things or Glow instead!

For info on Save Yourselves!: https://bleeckerstreetmedia.com/save-yourselves

2 out of 5 stars

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Snowy Bing Bongs Across the North Star Combat Zone dir. Alex Huston Fischer & Rachel Wolther (2017)

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Episode 112: Save Yourselves!

Save Yourselves! is an alien invasion dramedy with touches of horror starring Sunita Mani (from Glow, much-missed in this parish) and John Reynolds (Search Party) as a couple who escape to the country just as society starts to fall apart. 

And they've just cut themselves off from the internet so for a number of days the couple remain blissfully unaware of their impending doom. 

Emmet and Stevie discuss Save Yourselves as an unlikely response to COVID-pandemic and quarantine boredom, and its indie-feature budget inventiveness. 

Also:

Emmet delivers some bad news to Stevie.

The Eileen Jones article on John Carpenter can be found here.

Just to note as well, this episode was pre-recorded before the latest lockdown in Victoria. 

Hopscotch Friday is relaunching - as a podcast. So join us, Stevie and Emmet, for a pop culture discussion of deep cuts and pillow talk.