I can’t believe this. 24 hours from the end of the film festival and I come down with a vomiting bug. I’ve been in my bed all day conserving my strength but I’m not up to going to the Closing Gala tonight. Sad times. First time I’ll miss it in ages. Will have to end…
You know if there’s a story about a 13-year-old girls being raped, and the assault being filmed, and the video being distributed at her school, with impunity, before the title card even comes up, the movie’s going to be brutal. Netizens is a documentary about online gender violence and harassment. It features names you may…
Buy Me A Gun is set in a dystopia near-future Mexico, where the cartels run everything and female life is under threat. So basically, Mexico. A little girl and her crack-addled dad struggle to survive. He teaches her baseball and she helps a street scamp retrieve his severed arm from the cartel boss.
The Grand Bizarre uses time lapse footage and stop-gap animation of various brightly coloured, patterned fabrics in locations around the world. The effect is nearly a full hour of constant strobing, which actually began to make me sick. From a nearly sold-out start, there was a continuous string of walkouts as people realised that yes,…
Tyrel is a movie about Tyler, the only black dude invited on an all white bro birthday weekend. They are, of course, all cool, hip Democrats, who’ve brought a Donald Trump pinata to beat the shit out of, and rant against the idiocy of Christians, and know how to sing all the words to all…
The Third Marriage is a movie about how we fall in love with our friends. Martin is an old grumpy gay guy left bankrupt by the death of his husband. Tamara is an African migrant who needs to marry for a visa. A deal is done and they shack up to prove the validity of…
Scariest thing all day was a short called Decor, which in 10 minutes managed to be both coherent and creepy.
Black Circle is a movie about a cursed vinyl LP. It’s done in a 1970s style, when scientific research into altered consciousness legitimised interest in psychics and astral projection. Strong start peters out towards the end and it completely loses momentum. Overall though, I’d say I enjoyed it.
Here Comes Hell is a horror comedy in the style of Evil Dead meets Agatha Christie. Thoroughly enjoyed it.
The Dead Centre is a zombie/demonic possession riff set in a mental health ward. Utter shite.