Ok, so this is another movie about trans women that obviously has good intentions. All trans characters are played by trans actors. It shows trans activism and resistance to trans oppression. That being said, this is another film that shows being trans as the single defining problem of the main character. Tina is a Latina…
Song Without A Name is based on real events where poor Native Amerindian women had their newborn children illegally adopted without their knowledge or consent. Even when the struggle to bring those to justice is finally over, the attitude prevails that these kids are probably better off with the rich whites that have adopted them…
A modern-day remake of Shakespeare’s Measure For Measure set in the rough high flats of Melbourne, Australia. The result is a fun gangsta movie, with honour and reputation at the centre. Hugo Weaving makes a wonderful, growling, old-fashioned, dignified gangster.
Son-Mother is the story of a young widow who receives a proposal of marriage. What’s good about this movie is no one’s an asshole. The mother just wants what’s best for her son, her son just wants what’s best for his family, the new step-daddy just wants what’s best for everyone. And the new step-dad…
Arracht starts out as one thing and becomes another. It begins before the famine hits and is quite a tense, dramatic beginning. Then it becomes this sorrowful, melancholy, slow, survival epic, as the main character becomes a living ghost at the edge of the world.
A trio of shitkicker, garage band, fuckwits spend the night getting drunk, high, shooting fireworks off from their arse and generally partying like a shower of fannies. This leads to one of them, the titular Dick Long, getting dropped off at the hospital while the others scurry their high asses home. The whole movie more…
Before the title card was even up, I had decided I loved Pacarrete, thought she was a legend, and wanted to be her. Pacarrete is an elderly woman, who loves ballet and takes every opportunity to dance, and share her art. She is also a salty auld queen with a raspy smokers voice and barbed…
A twisting, turning, locked room mystery. A group of translators are locked underground to translate the final installment of a worldwide bestselling novel series in time for its simultaneous global multi-lingual release. But somehow the first few pages get released online, and the publishing agent in charge proves much more ruthless at finding the culprit…
You Will Die At Twenty is about a boy who is taken as a baby by his mother to be blessed by a sheikh. Unfortunately this coincides with an ill omen and the sheikh declares the boy will die at 20. The film follows the fallout and how it shapes the life of the main…
Another Day of Life is an animated adaptation of a Polish journalist’s memoir of reporting on the Angolan civil war. Comparable to things like Waltz With Bashir and the comics of Joe Sacco, it uses a blend of animation and contemporary footage to bring alive one of the crucial points in the fight for Angolan…