That was fucking great! Run Hide Fight is Die Hard for high school shootings. On the purely fun level, this movie is gripping, with twists and turns, cat and mouse, rising tensions, just excellently put together. There’s a little note of caution when you see a hero vs school shooters film because you don’t want…
Frightfest short about a Deliveroo driver instructed not to open the box they’re transporting. It’s basically the opening scene from Gremlins played for comedy. Cute and funny.
Four and a half fucking hours that took! Fucking hell. I don’t know why you would insist on that being a movie rather than a miniseries. I mean, it’s the filmmaker’s perspective, but I dunno. Maybe he thought the minutiae of municipal governance wasn’t something that would get people tuning back in, and he needed…
The winner of this year’s Audience Award was Sweetheart! Yeay! Nice to see queer female filmmakers and stories getting recognition.
Super fun neo-80s meta horror comedy. Joel is a smug obnoxious horror movie fanboy with more than a small dose of male entitlement and skeevy ego. His Nice Guy TM obsession with his flatmate leads him to tailing the latest guy she’s dating to a bar, in a jank boundary-crossing move. There he proceeds to…
Nice wee unsettling FrightFest short about getting an eye exam. All that darkness, and breath on your face, and taking away your ability to see clearly makes for fertile ground for the shivers. What’s that out the corner of your eye!
Cowboys is about Joe riding off into the Montana wilderness with his dad to escape his transphobic mother who is determined to raise Joe as a girl. Steve Zahn radiates warmth as the kind of dad we all want, a man who has his kid’s back. Sasha Knight is excellent as Joe, giving a mature…
A black-and-white noir crime thriller, in the mould of old spy flicks or movies about socialites and cat burglars. Intrigue and tension abound in this tight, one room clue-cracker. The film is almost entirely silent, with minimal sparse dialogue and a little back and forth over text. The film is entirely carried on the performance…
A seventeen year old girl loses her mum in a car crash and is sent to live with her aunt’s family, a bunch of gangsters. The main character Ida has to decide whether she will chose her newfound family over the right and wrongs of their nefarious dealings. You get the feeling that Ida’s previous…