The Dissident tells the story of the murder of Jamal Khashoggi. It is gripping, enlightening, and moving. This film was quite an eye-opener for me, going into a wealth of context I did not know. I followed the story in the news at the time, but my reaction was “Brutal regime murders journalist. No mystery…
Dreams on Fire follows a young girl as she leaves her strict and sheltered home in the countryside to pursue her dream of becoming a dancer in the big city. Her journey takes her through the various dance subcultures of Tokyo, from contemporary and tap, to headbanging to heavy metal, to R&B and urban freestyle,…
Absolutely fantastic! What an inspiring, interesting, in-depth documentary. Tina traces the life of Tina Turner, world renowned superstar. This is definitely one of the better music biopics I’ve seen, really doing a marvellous job of pulling together a wealth of sources to tell the story of an extraordinary woman’s life. I knew Tina from her…
A guy gets a white girlfriend and everything turns to shit. A Brixton Tale is about Leah and Benji, teenagers from opposite sides of the city, who meet and begin a relationship. But the pressures of racism and class are present from the very beginning and threaten doom. I spent the whole of this film…
That was fucking great! Run Hide Fight is Die Hard for high school shootings. On the purely fun level, this movie is gripping, with twists and turns, cat and mouse, rising tensions, just excellently put together. There’s a little note of caution when you see a hero vs school shooters film because you don’t want…
Frightfest short about a Deliveroo driver instructed not to open the box they’re transporting. It’s basically the opening scene from Gremlins played for comedy. Cute and funny.
Four and a half fucking hours that took! Fucking hell. I don’t know why you would insist on that being a movie rather than a miniseries. I mean, it’s the filmmaker’s perspective, but I dunno. Maybe he thought the minutiae of municipal governance wasn’t something that would get people tuning back in, and he needed…
The winner of this year’s Audience Award was Sweetheart! Yeay! Nice to see queer female filmmakers and stories getting recognition.
Super fun neo-80s meta horror comedy. Joel is a smug obnoxious horror movie fanboy with more than a small dose of male entitlement and skeevy ego. His Nice Guy TM obsession with his flatmate leads him to tailing the latest guy she’s dating to a bar, in a jank boundary-crossing move. There he proceeds to…