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On a deserted hot planetoid, a lonely robotic puppy tries to befriend an android visitor. His attempts at friendship are rebuffed until he is put a life and death choice. When the pup gives up his very own battery, his last hope comes from a within mysterious spherical chamber.

August 5, 2016
An examination of sexual relationships, in which three protagonists interact in different combinations.

August 4, 2016
Oskar, an overlooked and bullied boy, finds love and revenge through Eli, a beautiful but peculiar girl.

August 4, 2016
When a shy guy uses his lighter for the first time while talking to a pretty girl at a house party with dim lighting and strong winds outside the house, he must make a choice: is it lit, or isn’t it?

August 4, 2016
Late afternoon August 18, 1966 South Vietnam – for three and a half hours, in the pouring rain, amid the mud and shattered trees of a rubber plantation called Long Tan, Major Harry Smith and his dispersed company of 108 young and mostly inexperienced Australian and New Zealand soldiers are fighting for their lives, holding off an overwhelming enemy force of 2,500 battle hardened Viet Cong and North Vietnamese soldiers.

August 4, 2016

on A struggling college student, plagued by his current state of being, discovers a device called the “God Helmet” and becomes the test subject for his Professor’s experiment.

I think this logline is essentially perfect.
on Oskar, an overlooked and bullied boy, finds love and revenge through Eli, a beautiful but peculiar girl.

"Let the Right One In"
on An examination of sexual relationships, in which three protagonists interact in different combinations.

This is the logline to a Godard movie.
on A struggling college student, plagued by his current state of being, discovers a device called the “God Helmet” and becomes the test subject for his Professor’s experiment.

Can I ask WHERE y'all are reading that the God Helmet makes someone omnipotent? And how is 'plagued by' too vague, while anxious or lack of self-esteem is presumed to be evocative? Y'all can picture anxiety? And where does 'meek'…
on When a shy guy uses his lighter for the first time while talking to a pretty girl at a house party with dim lighting and strong winds outside the house, he must make a choice: is it lit, or isn’t it?

Oh, it's lit!