Great Freedom is a moving, heartbreaking journey of one man’s life through the prison system, as a 175 convict. Hans is a convicted homosexual. He comes to prison straight from the concentration camps. Not only were queer men sent to die in the camps, but after the war, survivors were sent back to prison, since,…
Last film of Dame Diana Rigg, and she is a treasure in this as with everything. She’s joined by scream queen Anya Taylor-Joy and surprisingly sexy Matt Smith. Thomasin McKenzie plays Eloise, 60s-obsessed fashion design student who travels to the big city of London with dreams of its glamourous past. Small hitch is she sees…
Right, so, anyone who knows me knows that I kinda despise the biscuit tin fetishisation of a set of parasitic upper-classholes, and the embarrassment that is this country in the 21st century still running with the fucking feudal system. And as an object of that, Diana became the focus for an outpouring of maudlin posthumous…
Unbelievably fun, unbelievably cool, The Harder They Fall features a stellar cast of Idris Elba, Lakeith Stanfield, and Regina King, all of whom bring the absolute storm in this movie. Idris Elba is the quintessential Man In Black, the ominous taciturn baddie, whose cruelty kicks off the whole story. He plays a complete bastard, Rufus…
Made in Bangladesh is a drama about a woman’s struggle to set up a union in a garment factory. It begins with a co-worker perishing in a workplace fire, obviously taking from real events like the 2012 factory fire disaster in Dhaka. Shimu and her friends feel distraught but helpless. When Shimu is contacted by…
To Be A Woman is a short film from the 1950s. It open with that plummy voice, “What of the woman of today? What does she want in the 1950s?” The Pathe News male voice puts forth these questions against an RP female voice setting forth the arguments for equal pay. You’d think this would…
Getting Away With Murder(s) asks the question why were the people who carried out the holocaust not brought to justice? Less than 1% of the people who participated in this mass murder were ever brought to trial. Of those, fewer were convicted, and even fewer adequately sentenced. It takes thousands of people to commit a…
I never saw Belle when it first came out coz I thought it looked gash. But since seeing it analysed in The Psychosis of Whiteness, I’ve been a little interested in what the complete piece looked like. And tonight it was being shown as part of Black History Month with a panel from CRER to…
The Deer King is one of those movies whose message becomes eerily prescient by the time it’s released. First written in 2014 and adapted in 2017, no one could have known that a story about a plague becoming a focal point for political unrest and ethnic tension would become so unfortunately relevant upon its release…
The Chambermaid is a film about Eve, an indigenous worker in a luxury hotel in Mexico. The film is shot from entirely within the hotel. It is as though the director wants to see if you can tell the story of someone’s full humanity through the keyhole of their work. Because work is where you…