Ok, so we all know that I’m not a sports fan, but golf in particular draws my ire as a racist, sexist, elitist game, played almost exclusively by wankers who have a picture of an Audi as their profile photo on Tinder. So I very nearly didn’t go see this movie, which would have been…
A Bonus For Irene is a short film set in a factory in West Germany in 1971. The drama focuses on Irene, a divorced, single mother working in a dishwasher appliance factory. She is pissed off. The factory is roasting, the wages are shit, and they call upon them for overtime like they should just…
I Am Somebody is a short film documentary covering the 1970 strike of hospital workers in Charleston, South Carolina. Initially just 400 black women went on strike for equal pay to their white colleagues, a raise in their wage of $1.30 an hour, and an end to derogatory comments made about their sex and race.…
Ok, I lu-huve Jane Campion. I was hoping this would deliver the promise her name brings, and it is so sumptuous, the cinematography, the score. I was a little hesitant about seeing Benedict Cumberbatch as a cowboy. I had dreads about a twangy accent and this pale, cat-faced thespian trying to embody a rugged steerhand.…
Blacks Britannica is a 1970s documentary interviewing working class Black Brits, exploring their analysis of race, class, colonialism and capitalism. It was initially banned on its release for the reasons you’d expect. It’s kinda depressing how much of it remains relevant half-a-century on. And it flags up gentrification, back before it even existed in the…
It’s a Wes Anderson movie, aye? I know some people cream themselves over Wes Anderson, but I very much like his movies on a case by case basis. While people laud their iconic look, this is one of them that’s a triumph of style over substance. That’s fine if you like his style, but I…
Great Freedom is a moving, heartbreaking journey of one man’s life through the prison system, as a 175 convict. Hans is a convicted homosexual. He comes to prison straight from the concentration camps. Not only were queer men sent to die in the camps, but after the war, survivors were sent back to prison, since,…
Last film of Dame Diana Rigg, and she is a treasure in this as with everything. She’s joined by scream queen Anya Taylor-Joy and surprisingly sexy Matt Smith. Thomasin McKenzie plays Eloise, 60s-obsessed fashion design student who travels to the big city of London with dreams of its glamourous past. Small hitch is she sees…
Right, so, anyone who knows me knows that I kinda despise the biscuit tin fetishisation of a set of parasitic upper-classholes, and the embarrassment that is this country in the 21st century still running with the fucking feudal system. And as an object of that, Diana became the focus for an outpouring of maudlin posthumous…
Unbelievably fun, unbelievably cool, The Harder They Fall features a stellar cast of Idris Elba, Lakeith Stanfield, and Regina King, all of whom bring the absolute storm in this movie. Idris Elba is the quintessential Man In Black, the ominous taciturn baddie, whose cruelty kicks off the whole story. He plays a complete bastard, Rufus…