Eat something before going to see this! Thank god I did, because you’d be ravenous within the first 5 minutes. Julia is a documentary on the life and legacy of Julia Child, America’s first TV chef. And it’s actually a pretty interesting life. Although cooking on television was what she was famous for, she didn’t…
Sambizanga is the story of Domingos and Maria, a young couple in 1960s Portuguese colonial Angola. Domingos is a good man, a dedicated father and husband, and is secretly an activist for Angolan independence. One day the police kick in his door and drag him out his house, beat hell out him and fling him…
Where Is Anne Frank examines the legacy of Anne Frank. Through the publication of her diary, Anne’s writings about being a normal child experiencing persecution has been read by and impacted millions. But its message fights to be seen, not a snapshot of the past, but as relevant as ever in the present. The film…
Bloody great movie! Zalava is about a small village in Iran in 1978 which everyone is convinced is under attack by demons. Set before the Revolution, the village of Zalava is in Kurdistan, and home to a community of settled gypsies. There superstition and belief in demons rules. Massoud, a sergeant in the local gendarme,…
I once asked my gran, “Gran, what’s good about getting old?” and she looked me dead in the eye and said, “Fuck all”. That’s what Vortex brought to mind. It’s basically about the nightmare of old age. Elle, beautifully played by Francoise Lebrun, is a retired psychiatrist and writer who is now losing her mind…
So much fun, full of silliness and whimsy! Love, Life and Goldfish is a musical about an uptight banker who is sent to work in a small town in the middle of nowhere where everyone is obsessed with goldfish. Scooping goldfish is a Japanese children’s game, something like hooking ducks at the shows is here.…
Lost Illusions is Mean Girls set in Restoration France. It’s the early half of the 19th century, after the Royalists retake France from Bonaparte, but Napoleon proved that you don’t need the right blood to wield power, and you can’t unring that bell. While the aristocracy go back to playing their games, beneath them, every…
Just like The Quiet Girl, this is a wholesome film that goes straight for the heart. Ebrahim is good boy who lives with his mother and 5 siblings. Since the disappearance of his father, he must earn money to keep the family going. The film shows Ebrahim’s story from his perspective. To someone on the…
What the fuck was that? I mean, I don’t know what they were even going for here. The plot is vaguely this: Lisa is moving out the flat she shares with her pals. A couple of other things are going on, Lisa’s maw has the hots for one of the movers, there’s a lot of…
The vistas in this are stunning. You forget just how vast China is, seeing a big ole country on a map doesn’t properly convey that this stretches from mountains to rainforest to desert. One Second is set on an immense desert steppe, and the panoramas are just spectacular. Set in the 60s under Mao’s rule,…