Thought I’d start the day with a bit of fluff with Love Sarah. My biggest concern going in was that it would be too saccharin. It was awful. Just awful. Was ready for walking out a few minutes in. Picked it because it had a good cast with Celia Imrie and Bill Paterson, but the…
Tonight on a very special episode of Body of Water . . . Body of Water is a film about a woman leaving recovery for anorexia and trying to re-establish her relationships with her mother and daughter. She does this by ignoring all her daughter’s boundaries and trying resume the relationship on her terms and…
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…
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.
Dead Good is a really interesting documentary about the movement in the UK away from traditional funeral directors and services towards more tailored and open ways of working with the bereaved. For most of us I think, after a loved one dies, a doctor comes to pronounce the death, followed by a funeral director. The…
A biopic of Rudolph Nuryev, centring mainly on his defection from the Soviet Union. It paints a man who is ambitious, mercurial, arrogant and steely-willed. Beautifully shot and performed.
Of Fish Or Foe is a documentary about one of the last coastal salmon netting fishing family businesses running in Scotland, and the pressure that is brought to bear on them over the course of a year to put them out of business. The pressure comes from 2 groups, a branch of hunt sabs called…
The worst kind of Yes voter masturbatory persecution fantasy. Three friends sleepwalk into a dystopian future, unable to see the oncoming political threat over their attention-consuming everyday lives. Despite the heavy-handed nature of the story and having all the marks of a first film, it does achieve a warmth and sympathy for the characters and…
A British Mean Girls with no jokes. Played straight down the line, this is a tale of female loneliness. With echoes of the start of Carrie, this is a film about the outsider, what it’s like to be permanently locked out of the society the rest of us seem to share in with ease. It’s…
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…