Freedom Fields is a documentary following the women of the Libyan national football team. Kinda like Permission, this movie is about female athletes being thrown under the bus, but this time in real life. On the eve of the team’s journey abroad for their first international tournament match, the football federation cancels their flight and…
Fugue is about a woman struggling to rediscover what happened to her 2 years after she loses her memory. At the same time, her family struggle to adjust to her new personality, which is a permanent state of Cannot. Be. Fucked. With. This.
Alone At My Wedding is about a young Roma woman who tries to get into being a mail order bride. She’s not very good at it, coz she’s lazy, messy and can’t cook. But you’re routing for her. Why should tidy bitches get all the breaks? The main character manages to be sympathic despite in…
Arctic is a tense, gruelling survival film. Mads Mikkelsen has to trek across the Arctic tundra with an injured friend, facing down polar bears and all sorts. The visuals on this are just amazing. Even the scale. It goes to wide shots and you’re like, “Which black dot is Mads?” Even though it’s shot in…
The Aftermath is about how Alexander Skarsgard is so sexy, you’d pump him even if you weren’t 100% sure yet that he wasn’t a Nazi. Equally true is that it’s about how Kiera Knightly is so sexy, you’d pump her even if she stole yer hoose Good steamy period romance.
Hotel Mumbai is a nail-bitingly tense dramatisation of the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks. Now, my main concern about this movie was this that it was going to be a It Shouldn’t Happen To A White Guy movie. This is when a movie is made about an event that affected the lives of hundreds of people…
28 films seen. 23 still to go.
Dead Good is a really interesting documentary about the movement in the UK away from traditional funeral directors and services towards more tailored and open ways of working with the bereaved. For most of us I think, after a loved one dies, a doctor comes to pronounce the death, followed by a funeral director. The…
Chained For Life is a movie about an able-bodied actress playing a blind woman opposite a disabled and deformed man in a schlock horror film. The film is obviously about disability, representation and cripface casting. You’d think with such an explicit message as its main thrust, it would be heavy-handed and obvious. Instead, it’s actually…
A biopic of dancer and choreographer Carlos Acosta. Such a beautiful film. It tells his life and journey alongside the actual Carlos Acosta dancing and directing his own pieces based on each period in his life. I just loved this mode of storytelling because with each struggle, you are seeing the actual outcome that they’re…