A gorgeous western set in Indonesia. Seven bandits arrive at the house of a widow with the intention to rob and rape her. They end up dead and she remains. It is an excellent turn of the damsel-in-distress trope on its head. Yet in many ways this is a film which glories in the tradition…
A movie about youth homelessness. The film really begins when the main character, now without parents or a home, steals a racehorse called Lean On Pete that’s been marked for slaughter, and together they go on a journey to find his estranged aunt. The lead actor is convincing as this quiet, tall, skinny, silent kid…
Just out of Beast, which I really loved. Its the story of a woman who escapes her domineering family when she meets and falls in love with a man several rungs below her on the social ladder. So far so good, until he becomes the prime suspect in a series of child murders. What I…
A biopic of Billy Moore, the British boxer who was incarcerated in Thailand and went on to become the first foreigner to fight in the national prison kickboxing tournament. I do kinda feel this movie falls into the category of It Shouldn’t Happen To White People films. These are movies where you take events which…
A movie about a woman struggling to cope after losing her friend to suicide. This film is positively seething with grief. It’s raw and brutal. It also manages to be blackly comic in a very Scottish way. I really liked it. There are bits I was a bit hm on. At one point I did…
“Trust me when I say this is not a white saviour story. This is a white nightmare story.” I’m gonna hear about nothing but white people for 2 hours, aren’t I? Yes. Yes you are. Correct. Did You Wonder Who Fired The Gun? is an achingly obvious self-indulgent documentary whose alternate title may have been…
A movie about two rich white girls who grew apart due to one’s psychopathy, but now reunite to murder a douchebag stepdad. Surprisingly funny and enjoyable. Also good to see for Anton Yelchin’s last performance.
It was excellent. Just beautiful.
It was good. No idea what it was about, but I liked it. A stranger is taken in by an isolated religious community and you spend the whole movie waiting for something terrible to happen and by the end you’re not sure if it has. Would love to hear others’ take on it.
A sleepy dreamlike tale of a young boy getting lost in the woods.