I dunno if I get this movie. It’s about a lassie who decides to care for her estranged father as his multiple sclerosis worsens. But I was left with a number of unanswered questions. Firstly, why is she there? One great thing about estrangement is you can opt out of this shit. Why has she…
God, that was tense! Carajita is about Sara and Yari, and their relationship. Sara is a rich white kid. Yari is the Black woman who works as her nanny, sending money back to her sister who is raising her child at home. Sara and Yari are both very close, and both of them at times…
Masculinity In Crisis: The Road Trip. Martin is having a mid-life crisis. He’s a big lad that works in IT, wife, two kids, a bunny. Then he snaps and runs away to the mountains dressed as a Viking to live off the land. Which might be great if he actually knew what he was doing,…
Ok, so Angry Young Men was made for, like, £2.50. It’s actually 5 grand, but that’s the same thing by film budget standards. So you’ve got to bear that in mind going into it. This is a micro-budget operation made by a first time filmmaker, basically with his pals. So some stuff will be ropey…
Olga is a Ukrainian teenage gymnast training for the Olympics. Because her father was Swiss, she has the opportunity to go and train in Switzerland, but it will mean competing for their team instead of Ukraine’s. The film is set during the 2014 Euromaidan protests. Now, we didn’t pay much attention to that here, because…
Adult Adoption is a comedy about family, finding it and making it. Rosy is 25 years old and has aged out the foster care system. She signs up to an online site that is basically Tinder for adult adoptees. It’s kinda a rom-com about meeting The One, except for parents not lovers. What I really…
Alma is this character who is larger than life. She’s a whirlwind of energy and passion. She seems like she’d be a good laugh on a night out, and also could start a fight in an empty house. A wee drama llama. Her best friend is Margot. They are both aspiring actresses and go on…
I picked this film to see because the synopsis described it as The Parent Trap directed by David Lynch. Man, is that right on the money. A very Twin Peaks feel. Set in 1987, it’s one of the few films I’ve actually looked up to check wasn’t a new release of a restored film from…
Brutal. Just brutal. La Civil is a drama about a Mexican woman who searches for her daughter after a kidnapping. These aren’t rich folks, Cielo and her husband Gustavo are just ordinary people. They live in an ordinary house and run a shop the size of a closet, just an over-the-counter thing. You would never…
Irina is a 22-year-old Romanian woman struggling to escape her violent and domineering family. She lives with her sister, aunt, uncle and cousins. They run a hotel as a family business, but they come off more like gangsters. I’ll be honest, aside from the two main characters, I had a hell of a time figuring…