A movie based on the Flannan Isle Mystery. It has a 3 scene cameo from my favourite pencil-necked, blue-eyed psychopath Soren Malling, which almost steals the show for understated ratcheting of tension. Much in the same vein as Shallow Grave and A Simple Plan, it has an element of conflict injected into a tight group,…
Mid90s is a really sweet, tender story about making friends, growing up, and forging a new identity for yourself. For all the character’s ups and downs, this is a bright sunny day of a film, promising a birth into a new, if complicated, life.
Just out of Nae Pasaran, which would have brought a tear tae a glass een. A documentary about the East Kilbride workers who refused to service or ship the engines used by the planes of the Chilean dictatorship during the 70s. Their legacy is examined in first-hand accounts of surviving political prisoners who recount what…
A love story set among the Parisian branch of Act Up, the AIDS activism group. It has a very naturalistic style to it. It is the first time I’ve seen a political activism meeting look like a real political activism meeting, boring and with agendas and petty bickering and menial practicalities and clash of personalities.…
A choppy-paced western about a trio of cowboys reuniting to avenge their friend, a murdered sheriff. Bill Pullman is hammy as all get-out while Tommy Flanagan steals the show. For better depictions of the muddle-brained deputy see Richard Jenkins in Bone Tomahawk.
Isle of Dogs was amazing! Loved it! Pure had a tear in my een when he washed the dug.
Super fucking ace!
A sorta sequel to Mystery Road. Detective Jay Swann is back, he’s cleaning up another town, and this time he’s partnering up – with 300 fucking flies. Seriously, like every fucking fly in the Australian outback is in this movie, usually half an inch from the actors’ eyeball or lip – get that tae fuck!…
A simple tale of a gun deal gone wrong. Taking place entirely within a warehouse, the movie is action packed and darkly funny. Reminiscent of stuff like Reservoir Dogs or A Simple Plan.
A sort of Galaxy Quest meets Hot Fuzz. A washed up actor reprises his role from his ’80s tv cop show to help police solve a murder on the Isle of Man. Julien Barratt is great as this sort of BoJack Horseman-esque character, stumbling with delusional optimism around the wreckage of his old life. It’s…