Atmospheric survival horror set in the Stone Age. A small group is led by their patriarch to an island in search good hunting grounds, only to find it bare. Hanging on by a thread, their tiny campfire flickering in the vast sea of darkness, something begins to move in the shadows. What I really liked…
Nearly walked out of that. I so wanted to like that. Joseph Bologne’s life is so interesting, it would make such a good movie. It still would. It’s American, so you know it’s gonna obvious and heavy-handed as fuck, but Jesus, some of that was unwatchable. I’m gonna try and be fair and say what…
This film is toxic garbage. I’m not even gonna be nice about it. Just once I would love to see kink in film bare any resemblance to kink in real life. The plot is a hotel mogul fires his dominatrix. It does not go well. It hits all the tired out and egregious tropes, including:…
Skin Deep is a body swap romantic drama. Leyla and Tristan attend a sort of hippy dippy retreat on an island in hopes of gaining more insight into their relationship by swapping bodies with another couple. There they ask is love possible beyond the body, beyond gender, beyond the self? But not really, this is…
Another one for the all cops are bastards file. Prison 77 is a fictionalised story based on the real events that took place in Spain during the transition from fascism to democracy. With the prospect of amnesty for political prisoners on the horizon, the ordinary prisoners demand it cover them as well. After all, what…
During a traumatic event, your body switches into fight or flight mode, adrenaline and cortisol coursing. Higher brain functions shut down, including the processing of long-term memory. Which is why people who’ve been through terrible events can sometimes have no memory of it, or only fragments, or can’t remember things until long after. This part…
Daniel is a film about a heavy subject but it handles with sensitivity, thought and empathy. After the suicide of a young lesbian in his religious rural community, local gay artist Daniel tries to organise a tribute to her life, but meets with resistance and prejudice. It is based on a true story. The titular…
The opening scene of this film tells you everything you need to know about the main character, Howard, and his relationship with his daughter, Grace. She drives out to his house in the arse-end of nowhere, bringing with her a cake for his birthday. He sits in the musty dark of his livingroom, doing the…
Holy shit. The blurb for this movie describes it as nerve-shredding, and boy does it deliver. So tense. Not been on the edge of my seat like that since watching Land of Mine. How To Blow Up A Pipeline is about, funnily enough, people blowing up a pipeline. A group of young people from disparate…
How to sell this film… It has Colin Mochrie in a leather chest harness. The End of Sex is about Josh and Emma, a middle-aged middle-class couple, who after 10 years of marriage, are experiencing bed death. A week away from their kids for the first time makes them realise that it’s been a long…