The Cleansing Hour
Thoroughly enjoyable possession romp. Good dose of humour. A hoax exorcist becomes real and goes viral.
Month: March 2020
Frightfest shorts – Cubicle and Live Forever
Class Frightfest shorts. Live Forever is a wee sing-along about dying in horror films, really fun. Cubicle is a little horror short set entirely within a bathroom cubicle. Loved it. Really effective with very little.
Death of a Vlogger
Ok, so Death of a Vlogger is a zero budget, no name, passion project made by a bunch of 20-year old pals in their flat. That being understood, it’s really fucking good. It really makes you wonder at what can be accomplished with skill alone. It’s basically shot on a phone, webcam, and fairly standard…
Synchronic
Synchronic is about a drug which causes you to become unstuck in time. It has a fun X-Files episode vibe. It has that sci-fi mixed with crime procedural, plus a buddy-cop dynamic. It stars Jamie Dornan from Fifty Shades of Grey and Andrew Mackie from Avengers, who have great chemistry and make very believable best…
Measure For Measure
A modern-day remake of Shakespeare’s Measure For Measure set in the rough high flats of Melbourne, Australia. The result is a fun gangsta movie, with honour and reputation at the centre. Hugo Weaving makes a wonderful, growling, old-fashioned, dignified gangster.
Oliver Sacks: His Own Life
I knew very little about Oliver Sacks other than he was the doctor Robin Williams’s character in Awakenings is based on. I also knew a couple of his other books, like The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat. So this was an enormous pleasure to watch and learn from. Oliver Sacks: His Own…
Sugar Cane Alley
Sugar Cane Alley is the 1983 adaptation of semi-autobiographical novel by Joseph Zobel. Set in 1930s Martinique, it follows Jose and his grandmother’s attempts to get him an education and out of the sugar cane fields. This film has a great sense of place. This film is a whole world, not just a backdrop to…
Because We Are Girls
Because We Are Girls follows the story of three Punjabi-Canadian sisters as they try to prosecute their cousin for rape and sexual abuse committed against them at the ages of 10 and 11. I did really well with this film, I felt the tears welling up at so many points in the film, and I…
Balloon
A surprisingly funny film about a Tibetan family dealing with the Chinese One Child policy. There is such warmth in this happy little family. They are sheep farmers, the grandfather, parents and kids all living under one roof. A lot of the humour comes from the fact this is obviously a very traditionally conservative culture,…
Disco
This cements for me the opinion that religion should not be forced on children. The main character is a disco-dancing champion and lead attraction in the ‘cool church’ run by her stepfather. They clearly know what they have in her as a sales tool – she’s young, she’s beautiful, she’s sexy, she’s fit, and yet…