Set on the Montreal drag scene, Solo follows Simon, a young drag queen as he falls in love for the first time. Simon is surrounded by love, his sister makes his outfits, his family celebrate his performances, his friends at the club all form a tight-knit group, and his drag mother is a constant support…
Sorcery is a folk tale about vengeance. The main character is an indigenous girl who, at the start of the film, is exactly what the white colonisers want her to be. She is a servant, she is a Christian, her name is Rosa. Despite this, when the settler’s sheep are struck down, he accuses Rosa’s…
Okay. This is gonna be a hard one. Not an easy watch. Nor should it be. Origin is an unusual and unlikely concept for a film. It is not a direct adaptation of the non-fiction book it’s based on, but a biopic of the author during her process of conceiving, researching and writing that book.…
This movie is a good example of how you don’t need a lot of special effects and convolution to make a good horror film. Just a simple story told well. Sleep begins like a classic spooky story. A woman wakes to find her husband sat bolt upright at the end of the bed. “Someone’s inside,”…
Beautiful human drama filled with warmth and humour in the midst of tragedy. Jaya is a school teacher. Jaya was not meant to be a school teacher, Jaya was destined to be a star! They’re a singer, an entertainer, a comedian. They had finally managed to get their own tv show and then . .…
Something You Said Last Night is a warm-hearted film about a family holiday. Renata and Sierra are college-aged sisters who go away with their parents for a nice week near the beach for their father’s birthday. Cue classic sibling rivalry, pure regression, and the inevitable family argument. This film is full of such good humour,…
Free Money is a documentary following a pilot scheme in Kenya to give every adult in a village universal basic income. It follows the recipients for 5 years to examine the long-term impact it has on their lives, the good, the bad, and the unexpected. Right, so like this film, I’m not gonna go over…
I am still greeting from watching Amerikatsi. Haven’t cried all festival, not once, but this… Amerikatsi is the Armenian word for American. It’s what they call the main character, Charlie, an Armenian-American who comes back to rebuild Armenia in the 40s. Where to start? Although too young to really remember it, Charlie was one of…
Hong Kong Mixtape documents the activist art of the Free Hong Kong movement, from the street art, to the music, the songs, the dances, the performance art, posters, sculptures, illustrations, photos, films, everything! As Hongkongers fight back against attack on their freedom by the Chinese government, taking to the streets in unprecedented numbers, so many…
I spent the whole of that film waiting for it to it to be the usual retread of queer trauma, full of the same tired tropes. How delighted I am to have been wrong. Eismayer is the hard-ass drill instructor who terrifies all the new recruits. In the new batch that need whipped into shape…