A film about the dangers of being a woman in Ireland dressed up as a grannyfapper romance. Pretty much every horrific crime committed by the Catholic Church gets played out in this movie, in which a young Irish rose gets Count Frollo’ed. Gie it a by and watch something cheery.
Fuck me, I thought that would never end. Just saw The Demons. Boring as fuck. I know you’re not supposed to say films are boring, in the same way that you’re not supposed to say people are ugly – they’re not ugly, they’re just not beautiful in the way you like – but fuck it!…
A simple tale of a gun deal gone wrong. Taking place entirely within a warehouse, the movie is action packed and darkly funny. Reminiscent of stuff like Reservoir Dogs or A Simple Plan.
Fuck. Just out of I Am Not Your Negro. Absolutely fucking excellent. It’s an attempt to finish on film James Baldwin’s final unfinished manuscript sketching a history of America by tracing the deaths of Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King. What unfolds on the screen is a series of visual essays on the…
A film about a Swedish man with autism, several disabilities, facial deformity and a recent head injury who goes on to compete in the Nordic boules championship. The start’s a bit slow but it’s good once it gets going.
A film about Bassem Youssef, who is inspired by Jon Stewart’s Daily Show to set up a satirical comedy show in the period between the military dictatorships of Mubarak and El-Sisi. The guy’s really funny and so is the film, it makes me want to see more of his stuff. While the events in Egypt…
A film in which a prodigal daughter returns to the family farm following the suicide of her brother. Ellie Kendrick (Meera from Game of Thrones) is excellent as the main character, going through all these shades of grief.
A film about a man trying to break away from his father who would rather see him dead than “go gorgi”. During the Q&A discovered that everything in the film is based on a real family called the Johnsons, who are semi-outcasts in the travelling community in Gloucester for being such mad bastard rip-and-run fiends.…
A film about a Finnish restaurant owner and a Syrian refugee he helps. It has this visual humour that’s sorta like something from the silent era, really old school style of comedy. I was kinda thrown by the pacing of it though, the two main characters don’t even meet for the first hour of the…
A documentary about a vegan filmmaker following a 73-year-old ex-colonial soldier on one last big game hunt. I enjoyed it overall, the main character is definitely a compelling and intriguing anachronism, but the narration by the filmmaker is unnecessary, and in some ways detracts from the film overall. It needlessly underlines the obvious, and his…