McKinley Carlin’s hilarious comedy short Noodles Forever, featured in our Best of Fest of Nffty 2023 selection, pictures the hideous reality of turning up at a birthday party where not only do you discover your ex is getting remarried but you have just unwittingly murdered your daughter’s beloved wiener-dog who happens to be the guest of honour. Just one of those situations is enough to ruin your day and filmmaker Carlin shrewdly frames our unfortunate protagonist’s descent into panic as he navigates each with the clumsy awkward ineptitude of someone completely at sea in their circumstances. Carlin slides through a multitude of carefully constructed plot points with ease, mounting one mishap upon another in an uncomfortable escalation of hilarity that you can’t help but curl your toes at as the hapless father’s afternoon just gets worse and worse. With Noodles Forever premiering on Dn today, in...
- 4/28/2023
- by Sarah Smith
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