Starlets is an incredibly fun film, and it’s easy to forget it’s a short after you’ve watched it. Writer/director Marten Carlson

has packed a great story into just a few moments, and you walk away from it feeling like you really know the characters.

We start by meeting Biggs Tomlinson (Ryan Gibdon) an executive from the movie studio that the Lentz Triplets, the biggest movie stars in the world, are signed too. We also learn that no one has seen them for quite a while, so poor Biggs has the job of not only getting their contract renegotiated, but he also has to personally lay eyes on them. We know this is going to be a problem as soon as we meet Milly Lentz (Jill Bailey), the triplets aging movie star mother. She insists that the girls aren’t home, but Biggs knows he can’t leave till he sees them…so he fakes car trouble and asks to stay the night. He soon learns that this was a huge mistake, when he snoops too far and discovers the huge secret that Milly has been hiding.

I really liked this film! The acting was good, it had the perfect old Hollywood feel to it, and the ending was not at all where I thought the film was headed. Of all the short films that I watched for Cinepocalypse this year, this one was absolutely my favorite. I’m excited to see what Marten Carlson brings us in the future!

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Cinepocalypse Film Fest 2019 - “STARLETS” Review

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