Eye Exam
Nice wee unsettling FrightFest short about getting an eye exam. All that darkness, and breath on your face, and taking away your ability to see clearly makes for fertile ground for the shivers. What’s that out the corner of your eye!
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Cowboys
Cowboys is about Joe riding off into the Montana wilderness with his dad to escape his transphobic mother who is determined to raise Joe as a girl. Steve Zahn radiates warmth as the kind of dad we all want, a man who has his kid’s back. Sasha Knight is excellent as Joe, giving a mature…
The Woman With Leopard Shoes
A black-and-white noir crime thriller, in the mould of old spy flicks or movies about socialites and cat burglars. Intrigue and tension abound in this tight, one room clue-cracker. The film is almost entirely silent, with minimal sparse dialogue and a little back and forth over text. The film is entirely carried on the performance…
Wildland
A seventeen year old girl loses her mum in a car crash and is sent to live with her aunt’s family, a bunch of gangsters. The main character Ida has to decide whether she will chose her newfound family over the right and wrongs of their nefarious dealings. You get the feeling that Ida’s previous…
The Old Ways
Thoroughly enjoyable possession movie. Cristina is a journalist and junkie who ventures back to her birthplace in Mexico for an ethnographic article. Having largely lost touch with her roots after her adoption and move to the US at a young age, she no longer speaks Spanish and has no belief in the religious and traditional…
Gagarine
In 1963 the Gagarine housing estate was opened in Ivry, France. Named after the Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, who attended its opening. It was a building of the future, in an era of optimism where the possibilities seemed endless. Now in the 21st century, the estate has been subject to…
Welcome II The Terrordome
Okay. So… Welcome II The Terrordome is the first ever feature film to get a theatrical release that was made by a Black British woman, and would remain so for nearly a decade, so its existence at all is an achievement. That being said it was clearly made on a budget of £3.50 and hasn’t…
A Family Called Abrew
Fascinating documentary about the Abrew family, recounting their history in the early 20th century. There’s Lottie Abrew, a dancer, contortionist, stage performer, and activist. Her brother Charlie is a boxer and war veteran. Her other brother Manuel was also a boxer, beating Benny Lynch 3 times but forbidden from competing for the title because he…
Expensive Shit
Excellent and powerful short about a toilet attendant who is pressured into manipulating women for the amusement of men behind the bathroom’s two-way mirror. No doubt inspired by local scumbag Stephan King’s two-way bathroom mirror in the Shimmy Club, where women and girls were unknowingly displayed to paying men, something I still can’t believe wasn’t…
Our Midnight
A pretentious arsehole actor meets a woman on a bridge with actual real problems. The film starts with Jihoon’s long-suffering girlfriend dumping him, like the woman of sense she is. After a decade in a relationship together, he has no intention of marrying her, or concern about contributing financially. He is an act-tor don’t you…