Our Mothers is a film in awe of the strength of women. It follows the main character, a forensic anthropologist, who is responsible for identifying the dead when they are unearthed from the mass graves created under the military dictatorship and genocide in the 80s. He helps a woman retrieve the bones of her husband,…
At one point in this movie, a lassie puts a frog up her vagina, and that’s the closest this film comes to making sense. As far as I can tell, Cook Fuck Kill follows one guy, Jari, as he relives the same hellish day over and over again, in some kinda purgatory. And purgatory is…
Buy Me A Gun is set in a dystopia near-future Mexico, where the cartels run everything and female life is under threat. So basically, Mexico. A little girl and her crack-addled dad struggle to survive. He teaches her baseball and she helps a street scamp retrieve his severed arm from the cartel boss.
Tyrel is a movie about Tyler, the only black dude invited on an all white bro birthday weekend. They are, of course, all cool, hip Democrats, who’ve brought a Donald Trump pinata to beat the shit out of, and rant against the idiocy of Christians, and know how to sing all the words to all…
Girls of the Sun is a fictionalised account of the unit of Yazidi and Kurdish women fighting Isis who were themselves former Isis captives. It even has its own Marie Colvinesque war reporter, complete with eye patch, documenting them taking back their home town. The main character is Bahar, a lawyer whose husband is killed…
A Russian comedy (not often you get to say that). Viktor is a supreme dobber who discovers that the father he assumed died in prison is in fact living with a spinal cord injury in a flat across town. His father is an even bigger dobber than him, so Viktor decides to pap him off…
An Australian film about a black guy who shoots a white guy in self-defence. And if a story starts like that, you know how it’s gonna end. Visually, this film conveys the awe of the Australian landscape, following Sam as he goes on the run. Despite the fact he could kill his pursuers numerous times,…
A film about a girl that gets sent to live with her relatives in rural Iceland. And that’s about it.
A movie about a Chilean woman whose partner dies suddenly and who is forbidden from his funeral because his first family are a bunch of transphobic cunts. This movie is visually beautiful and the music is great. One thing I liked is that Marina is full of a quiet inner strength. She is neither a…
A gorgeous western set in Indonesia. Seven bandits arrive at the house of a widow with the intention to rob and rape her. They end up dead and she remains. It is an excellent turn of the damsel-in-distress trope on its head. Yet in many ways this is a film which glories in the tradition…