Audience Award predictions
This year’s gonna be a close call. I reckon it’s tied between Olga and La Civil. Olga might just pip it. Personally I’ll be happy with whoever wins so long as it’s not Anais In Love.
Author: gffreviews
Some Like It Rare
Fucking hilarious! Went to see this with my diehard vegan sister and we both laughed all the way through. It’s about a couple who run a butcher shop, who take to killing and selling the flesh of vegans. I think what made this work so well was the core characters and their relationship. The plot…
Kore
As bad as theatre. Short horror film, it seems to be about a young woman regrowing her placenta from her back, which then generates into a new body for her. Or it could have been something else entirely, it was not clear.
The Ledge
Speaking of cartoon villains. Four escapees from an 80s frat movie are going mountain climbing when they run into two lassies. The lassies have heavy Women Laughing With Salad energy, and after a fireside swapping of homophobic jokes, the lead frat boy tries to rape one of the lassies. When he fails, he punches her…
Mandrake
That was bloody great! Witch tale from Ireland. Mary Laidlaw, known as Bloody Mary, is released on parole from her sentence for killing her husband. Her parole officer, Cathy, doesn’t want the media hype about her devil worship and human sacrifice to colour her view of her new charge. But Mary is super fucking creepy.…
Wild Men
Masculinity In Crisis: The Road Trip. Martin is having a mid-life crisis. He’s a big lad that works in IT, wife, two kids, a bunny. Then he snaps and runs away to the mountains dressed as a Viking to live off the land. Which might be great if he actually knew what he was doing,…
Wyrmwood: Apocalypse
Tales from the world of Wyrmwood. Wyrmwood: Apocalypse is a sequel to the 2014 Aussie zombie action thriller Wyrmwood. We are back with our fuel-burping undead and the homemade armoured vehicles. Wyrmwood is basically like Mad Max with zombies. Reunite with Barry and Brooke, with Luke McKenzie returning as the baddie Captain’s twin brother, set…
You Are Not My Mother
You Are Not My Mother is an Irish folk horror, in the same vein of mental illness or supernatural happening. Char’s mum is manic depressive and she goes missing at the start of the film. And when she comes back, she’s… different. Really good, well acted film. The main character Char is really well performed…
Homebound
A new bride is taken to meet her husband’s kids in his large country house, in a story that reeks of Bluebeard’s Castle from the outset. All the weans are creepy and she’s just constantly going, “Eh, something’s off”, and having her man gaslight her. He starts off as the good-time da, laughing and playing,…
A Cloud So High
This film is a mess. A story about a serial killer who is the son of a retired cop (yeah, I know), it is shot partly as a Netflix-style documentary, partly as a drama, then also incorporates first-person narration of the inner monologue of the killer, all the while there is an experimental soundscape running…