Wadjda

Immediately wanna watch it again, only this time with my mum, and the whole of my book group. Who would have thought a film about a little girl buying a bike would be so compelling?

Mama

Mama was okay. Reckon I’ll be able to sleep tonight. It’s not really the plot that’s the problem, it’s that you see so much of Mama. In the trailer, it’s a shadow, a hint. Nothing is as scary when you just see it full on in the light. The first half of the film, before…

The Final Member

A beautifully funny and moving film about the vulnerability of man, both the genus and the gender. It is about a man’s hobby for collecting penises which led to him running the first museum on the subject, and that’s the most normal thing in the whole movie.