Manic pixie dream girl Anais careens carelessly into everyone’s life searching for herself and passion and love. Because she is young, and thin, and white, and pretty, everyone finds this adorably charming, and she faces no consequences and is never held accountable for her impact on others. I know it’s a tradition to romanticise carefree…
Bloody great movie! Zalava is about a small village in Iran in 1978 which everyone is convinced is under attack by demons. Set before the Revolution, the village of Zalava is in Kurdistan, and home to a community of settled gypsies. There superstition and belief in demons rules. Massoud, a sergeant in the local gendarme,…
Just like The Quiet Girl, this is a wholesome film that goes straight for the heart. Ebrahim is good boy who lives with his mother and 5 siblings. Since the disappearance of his father, he must earn money to keep the family going. The film shows Ebrahim’s story from his perspective. To someone on the…
What the fuck was that? I mean, I don’t know what they were even going for here. The plot is vaguely this: Lisa is moving out the flat she shares with her pals. A couple of other things are going on, Lisa’s maw has the hots for one of the movers, there’s a lot of…
Ruth Wilson stars as Kate, a middle-aged single woman suffocating in her rundown seaside town and her tedious as fuck office job. She works for the brew, where she meets Blonde, recently released from jail and looking to sign on. An affair with him looks sure to blow the dust off her life. Firstly, obviously,…
Just a fucking excellent film. Her Way is a film about a mother trying to do the best for her son. Marie is a single mother, raising her son Adrien alone. He is 17 and going through a difficult time. He is sullen, lazy, stoned and feckless. Marie is at her wit’s end trying to…
A Banquet is a horror film in the vein of mental illness or possession? Focusing on a family of a mother and her daughters, anorexia is transformed into preparation for sainthood or the affliction of the demon-possessed. Dunno what it is but I feel like recently I’ve just seen a bunch of stuff that was…
Hive is the story of Fahrije, a Kosovan woman who tries to support herself by making ajvar relish. In her community, for a woman to even drive a car is considered scandalous, so it’s an uphill struggle. Based on a true events, Fahrije’s story was big news in Kosovo. The trouble was Fahrije’s husband was…
Killing Escobar is a documentary about an operation by British mercenaries to kill Pablo Escobar in 1989. The film focuses on Peter McAleese, a Glasgow born ex-SAS soldier who took to mercenary work in various colonial and Cold War conflicts. His reputation was such that he was hired by Dave Tompkins, an arms dealer and…
Yer Old Faither is about the life of John Croall, a Glasgow native who emigrated to Australia, to the little town of Whyalla. It is a film which traces out the extraordinary impact of an ordinary life. Or not entirely ordinary, because Croall was a bit of a character. The film traces his professions and…