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Home Subscribe About Us Features News Album Reviews Movie Reviews Past Movies Movie Resources Concert Reviews Book Reviews Top 10 Contact Us	Cold Play Stars: D. David Morin, Vanessa Branch, Geno Andrews, Ignacio Serricchio, Reed Rudy and Jose Yenque Directors/Scriptwriters: D. David Morin and Geno Andrews Cinematography: Nick Rivera Composer: Michael Patti Morin/Andrews Productions/Cold Play Movie Running Length: 90 minutes Rating: not rated but could be R Reviewed at Kansas International Film Festival (KIFF) Sept. 2008 D. David Morin plays Winston, a man who is obsessed with his wife. He’s also obsessed with the 20 million dollar Faberge egg he purchased. Winston doesn’t think of people, he thinks of possessions. Vanessa Branch ("All Roads Lead Home”) is Indigo, the beautiful wife who is one of his possessions. Winston gives “jealousy” new meaning. He follows and questions her every move. The story begins with the purchase with the valuable egg at an auction and Winston is suspicious of a South American playboy who he thinks is having an affair with Indigo. However, the playboy is said to be gay. When Winston hires a sleazy photographer, Angus (Geno Andrews with a swastika tattooed on his neck) to shadow Indigo. She catches him, and before you can say cheese, they are having an affair. Enter a loan shark (Rudy Reed from “24” and also has a swastika on his neck) who beats up Angus, but gives him a bit more time to get the money owed. Indigo and Angus decide to steal the egg and run away together, but things don’t always go as planned. There is always Winston with a new surveillance camera and the gardener (Ignacio Serricchio from “General Hospital”) who hovers near by putting in a koi pond. Oh, the life of the rich. The film begins with Winston and Angus telling their stories to the police about the death of Indigo and the rest is in flashbacks. What gets to be a joke in the Midwest (meeting with one’s koi pond broker) may be taken seriously on the West Coast. Despite this lapse, the audience will get caught up in the story with twists and turns, and just when you think you have it figured out, here comes something new. Acting is well done with D. David Morin giving a chilling performance as Winston and equally chilling is Reed Rudy as the loan shark. Vanessa Branch nicely plays Indigo as a woman lost in this obsessive marriage, but it is Geno Andrews as Scot-accented Angus, who steals his scenes. He goes from villain to lover in an instant, a chameleon in a chess game. Marie Asner