(re)Search my Trash

<body> <div align="left"> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" width="800" cellpadding="0" height="100%"> <tr> <td width="100" rowspan="2" background="../stylepix/square.gif" valign="top">  </td> <td width="4" rowspan="2"></td> <td width="592" valign="top"> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" width="592"> <tr> <td width="100%">  </td> </tr> </table>    <table border="0" cellspacing="0" width="405" align="right"> <tr> <td width="100%"> <p align="right"><img border="0" src="../stills/uncommonbond-1.jpg" width="400" height="289"></td> </tr> </table> <p>It's 10 years ago that Jinelle (Donna Hamblin) and Drax's  (Mark Gordon Buckley) son Jacob has died - and Jinelle still hasn't learned how to cope. Well, the first five years she even refused to leave the house, while since she has started a vlog to share her experiences with the world and ask the world for assistance, so that might be considered an improvement. But it's around Jacob's 14th birthday that she begins to lose it. So much so that Drax starts to worry and starts vlogging behind her back. Thing is, Jinelle has apparently turned to the occult to bring Jacob back, and in her mind, it worked as well, to a point where this becomes a situation impossible for Drax to cope with ...<p> <p>Told found footage style as a series of vlogs and hidden camera footage and intentionally avoiding spectacle, this is really an actors' movie, with Donna Hamblin, who's front and center in this one, giving a very strong and empathetic performance, and Mark Gordon Buckley giving solid support as the guy trying to keep things together. And in their mostly separate scenes they really manage to create a certain kind of unease, even creepiness, not so much in what's said but what's left out, what can be read between the lines, making this more than just a tale about a woman who might have conjured the ghost of her son or might have just gone off the hook (the film remains vague about that), but a compelling story about loss and coping and guilt, one that might be slowburn in build-up, but also one that really goes under your skin.<p> <p>If this has gotten you at all interested, the film's available on DVD from <b><a href="http://www.skullfaceastronaut.com/uncommonbond.html" target="_blank">http://www.skullfaceastronaut.com/uncommonbond.html</a></b> <p>  </td> <td width="4" rowspan="2"></td> <td width="100" rowspan="2" background="../stylepix/squareright.gif" valign="top">  </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="592" valign="top">  <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript"> currentyear = "2020"; </SCRIPT> <SCRIPT language="JavaScript" src="../scripts/endcredits.js"></SCRIPT> <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript"> dosworsdonn(); </SCRIPT> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </body>