I’d never seen Spookies. A brilliant/awful sub-classic 80s horror that sits on the weirdness scale somewhere between Phantasm and Troll 2. Watching this will remind you just how accurate Garth Merenghi really is. Spookies starts with two cars, one of cool kids, one of squares, getting lost and deciding to party in an old abandoned…
Always In Season focuses on the death of Lennon Lacy, through the wider context of the history of denial, impunity and erasure of lynchings in the States. Lennon Lacy was a 17-year-old boy who was found hanged from a swingset in the public green behind the house where he lived. Local police immediately ruled it…
Before the title card was even up, I had decided I loved Pacarrete, thought she was a legend, and wanted to be her. Pacarrete is an elderly woman, who loves ballet and takes every opportunity to dance, and share her art. She is also a salty auld queen with a raspy smokers voice and barbed…
A twisting, turning, locked room mystery. A group of translators are locked underground to translate the final installment of a worldwide bestselling novel series in time for its simultaneous global multi-lingual release. But somehow the first few pages get released online, and the publishing agent in charge proves much more ruthless at finding the culprit…
What a lovely way to start of your day, with Dive: Rituals in Water. It is a documentary about Snorri, an Icelandic swimming instructor. He started out teaching adults with developmental and co-ordination challenges, and then went on to open the nation’s first baby swim class. What he learnt was just fascinating, teaching babies a…
The Changin’ Times of Ike White is a documentary about the bizarre and mysterious life of Ike White. Unlike a lot of my friends, I don’t have a thorough knowledge about obscure one-hit records from the 70s, so I’d never heard of Ike White. He was a musician, a real multi-instrumentalist prodigy that got picked…
The premise of this film will be familiar to anyone who has given even a passing thought to ending their own life. Like, why isn’t there an app for this? Wouldn’t it be better if there was a service you could go to, say, “I wanna end my life”, and they handled the rest. It…
Our Mothers is a film in awe of the strength of women. It follows the main character, a forensic anthropologist, who is responsible for identifying the dead when they are unearthed from the mass graves created under the military dictatorship and genocide in the 80s. He helps a woman retrieve the bones of her husband,…
At one point in this movie, a lassie puts a frog up her vagina, and that’s the closest this film comes to making sense. As far as I can tell, Cook Fuck Kill follows one guy, Jari, as he relives the same hellish day over and over again, in some kinda purgatory. And purgatory is…
Tonight on a very special episode of Body of Water . . . Body of Water is a film about a woman leaving recovery for anorexia and trying to re-establish her relationships with her mother and daughter. She does this by ignoring all her daughter’s boundaries and trying resume the relationship on her terms and…