Stand By for Tape Back-Up

For a film that spends nearly half of its runtime focusing on a clip fromGhostbusters andThe Fresh Prince of Bel-Air‘s opening credits, Ross Sutherland’sStand by for Tape Back-Up isn’t exactly a light-hearted comedy. It’s amusing at times, but the underlying emotion is one of self-delusion as coping mechanism, a bittersweet and melancholy walk through Sutherland’s wrestling with grief and depression as relayed through a creative reading of seemingly unrelated texts.

The film is an adaptation...