Among Us Women is a documentary about Huluager, a young pregnant woman in rural Ethiopia, as she tries to make her own choices about her birth and control decisions about her own healthcare. All the issues in this are so identifiable, and presented in the least Othering way imaginable. Patriarchy is global, and even though…
Free Money is a documentary following a pilot scheme in Kenya to give every adult in a village universal basic income. It follows the recipients for 5 years to examine the long-term impact it has on their lives, the good, the bad, and the unexpected. Right, so like this film, I’m not gonna go over…
I am still greeting from watching Amerikatsi. Haven’t cried all festival, not once, but this… Amerikatsi is the Armenian word for American. It’s what they call the main character, Charlie, an Armenian-American who comes back to rebuild Armenia in the 40s. Where to start? Although too young to really remember it, Charlie was one of…
Thoroughly enjoyed that. Onyx the Fortuitous and the Talisman of Souls is created with the hallmark of someone with a deep love for the horror-comedy classics of the late 80s. You can see influences of Beetlejuice, Killer Klowns From Outer Space, and Evil Dead 2, to name just the obvious. Full of practical effects and…
Hong Kong Mixtape documents the activist art of the Free Hong Kong movement, from the street art, to the music, the songs, the dances, the performance art, posters, sculptures, illustrations, photos, films, everything! As Hongkongers fight back against attack on their freedom by the Chinese government, taking to the streets in unprecedented numbers, so many…
I spent the whole of that film waiting for it to it to be the usual retread of queer trauma, full of the same tired tropes. How delighted I am to have been wrong. Eismayer is the hard-ass drill instructor who terrifies all the new recruits. In the new batch that need whipped into shape…
There have been so many documentaries made about Muhammad Ali, you might think, what else is there left to say? Cassius X answers that by honing in on the pivotal years of Ali’s life, the development of his political consciousness and the fights which established him as a serious force in the boxing industry. That…
Gorefest action film. Sisu is the kind of movie The Gang from Always Sunny would love, in the classic traditions of Thunder Gun. Unrepentant, unreformed, unstoppable, ultramacho thriller. A film which refuses to let the laws of physics or what is medically possible get in the way of a good movie. A grizzled old gold…
“10 out of 10” said the guy next to me at the end, and have to say I agree. Absolutely hilarious, so much fun, a total delight. Smoking Causes Coughing is a bit of an anthology of little vignettes in a wrap-around story. It is about Tobacco Force, a kinda cross between the Power Rangers…
That was chronic. The Water is about a teenager living in a small superstitious village in Spain. The local river is said to fall in love with women and carry them off in floods. The women ‘get water inside them’ which calls them to the river. Ana, the main character belongs to a family of…