A film about a Finnish restaurant owner and a Syrian refugee he helps. It has this visual humour that’s sorta like something from the silent era, really old school style of comedy. I was kinda thrown by the pacing of it though, the two main characters don’t even meet for the first hour of the…
A documentary about a vegan filmmaker following a 73-year-old ex-colonial soldier on one last big game hunt. I enjoyed it overall, the main character is definitely a compelling and intriguing anachronism, but the narration by the filmmaker is unnecessary, and in some ways detracts from the film overall. It needlessly underlines the obvious, and his…
A film about two people’s stories linked by a heart transplant. Lovely.
Still shaking and crying from Paradise. Had to go wash my face. It’s the story of a Russian princess who is sent to the concentration camps for hiding Jewish children from the Nazis. It’s about how she manages to keep her strength of spirit throughout her ordeal, and the impact that has on the lives…
A sort of Galaxy Quest meets Hot Fuzz. A washed up actor reprises his role from his ’80s tv cop show to help police solve a murder on the Isle of Man. Julien Barratt is great as this sort of BoJack Horseman-esque character, stumbling with delusional optimism around the wreckage of his old life. It’s…
A solid but ultimately unremarkable escape from the Nazis movie.
Whoa. Just came out of Clash, a film about the 2013 Egyptian riots following the military overthrow of the Muslim Brotherhood presidency installed after the fall of Mubarak, but shot entirely within the back of one police van. It basically spans a day and a night all within one claustrophobic location, as supporters of the…
A movie about a poor Swedish bastard who gets press-ganged by the US military into taking their operatives down in a sub to the floor of the North Korean sea. Unsurprisingly, things do not go well. I would rate this movie as ok. I’ve seen this kinda thing done before and better in movies like…
A film in which a prodigal son returns to a family blown apart when he testified against his brother in a murder trial years before. Excellent performances, everyone serving time for one person’s act, lives irrevocably changed, struggling to reconcile even for a moment. Solid film.
A beautiful animation about an elderly woman who spends a year living in a shack on the beach, and finds nourishment in solitude.