Level 16
Level 16 is a teen dystopia set in a prison finishing school with a dark secret. Like Handmaid’s Tale meets One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest but boring.
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For A Happy Life
For A Happy Life is about love overcoming the insurmountable problem of one person not being Pakistani. An Algerian lass is in love with a Pakistani boy, whose parents are determined to marry him off to his cousin. The movie follows the unbelievable shitshow fallout of them struggling to be together.
Lords of Chaos
I had a sense of trepidation going in to Lords of Chaos. Americans playing Norwegian metal musicians could go very, very wrong. I was delighted to find instead that it was fucking great. Lords of Chaos, or How To Edgelord Your Way To Insanity And Death, is a dramatisation of the rise and fall of…
Are You Proud?
Are You Proud? is a documentary looking at the history of Pride movements here in the UK. Maybe like me you are up on your American queer history a lot more than you are your British queer history. It came at it from an angle I didn’t expect, namely ‘isn’t it great British has such…
Another Day of Life
Another Day of Life is an animated adaptation of a Polish journalist’s memoir of reporting on the Angolan civil war. Comparable to things like Waltz With Bashir and the comics of Joe Sacco, it uses a blend of animation and contemporary footage to bring alive one of the crucial points in the fight for Angolan…
Freedom Fields
Freedom Fields is a documentary following the women of the Libyan national football team. Kinda like Permission, this movie is about female athletes being thrown under the bus, but this time in real life. On the eve of the team’s journey abroad for their first international tournament match, the football federation cancels their flight and…
Fugue
Fugue is about a woman struggling to rediscover what happened to her 2 years after she loses her memory. At the same time, her family struggle to adjust to her new personality, which is a permanent state of Cannot. Be. Fucked. With. This.
Alone at my Wedding
Alone At My Wedding is about a young Roma woman who tries to get into being a mail order bride. She’s not very good at it, coz she’s lazy, messy and can’t cook. But you’re routing for her. Why should tidy bitches get all the breaks? The main character manages to be sympathic despite in…
Arctic
Arctic is a tense, gruelling survival film. Mads Mikkelsen has to trek across the Arctic tundra with an injured friend, facing down polar bears and all sorts. The visuals on this are just amazing. Even the scale. It goes to wide shots and you’re like, “Which black dot is Mads?” Even though it’s shot in…
The Aftermath
The Aftermath is about how Alexander Skarsgard is so sexy, you’d pump him even if you weren’t 100% sure yet that he wasn’t a Nazi. Equally true is that it’s about how Kiera Knightly is so sexy, you’d pump her even if she stole yer hoose Good steamy period romance.